New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge — Wednesday Link-up

Welcome to the Wednesday link-up for the New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge. Do you have a review or progress report on your blog? If so, add it to the link list below. If not, report your progress in the comments.

We had more people join us in the last week. Check the sign-up post to see the books that others are reading to support their resolutions, goals, and projects in the New Year. The New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge runs for all of January, so there’s plenty of time to join us!

Join us for another Twitter Chat tonight to talk about goals and books. We’ll be chatting at 9PM Eastern / 8 Central / 7 Mountain / 6 Pacific / 5 Alaskan / 4 Hawaiian. The hashtag is #WSchat.

As for my progress, I’ve started two of the books I intend to read to support my new Year’s resolutions. For Be a Better Reader, I’m enjoying Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose. For Be Happier, I’ve started The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Check the Read Along discussion post from earlier today for my initial thoughts and for discussion with other participants.

In case you missed it, I wrote a series of posts with book lists to support popular New Year’s resolutions. The last was Be a Better Francophile. That post has links to the rest of the posts in the series.

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New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge — Wednesday Link-up — 3 Comments

Satia on January 8, 2014 at 8:10 am said:

I probably won’t be posting any reviews in January even if I do finish one or more of my books in January. Is that a problem? My book reviews are back-logged a bit and sometimes I don’t post a review for a few weeks.

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- Joy Weese Moll / @joyweesemoll on January 8, 2014 at 10:06 am said:
  
  No worries, whatever works best for you. If accountability helps, you can always post your progress in a comment.
  
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Gerry Wilson on January 8, 2014 at 9:13 am said:

Uh oh! I posted my link twice–here and below your post! Sorry!

I’m enjoying the book (see post; it’s already up). My response isn’t as thorough as yours, but it’s similar. I find I’m “picking and choosing” Gretchen’s ideas and strategies that seem most relevant for my life. Maybe I should pay more attention to the work chapter! To be perfectly honest, I was a bit put off by it because Gretchen seems to have led such a charmed work life, with what she wants to do falling into place. That’s over-simplifying, I know; it’s *never* that simple! But I feel I’m up against such obstacles right now in making my goals become reality.

Thanks so much for this challenge, Joy. It’s going to be instructive and fun!

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