A new year means a fresh set of goals. That’s why so many of us – in addition to promising to exercise more and spend less time on Facebook – are also resolving to read lots of books in 2010. “The new year is about renewed energy and all the things you can accomplish,” says Daniel Goldin, owner of the Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee. “The pile of books that you think you’ll never get through in November becomes a possibility” in January.
Maybe. But as we all know, February can be a cruel month, littered with the debris of broken resolutions. So to help would-be readers chart successful courses for an actively bookish 2010, the Monitor asked the experts – booksellers, authors, and other “bookistas” in the know – what they are most excited about reading in the new year and why.
Goldin says he’s kicking the year off with both an author he’s never read before (James Hynes and his 2000 political thriller, “The Wild Colonial Boy”) and an old favorite (Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 satire on religion, “Elmer Gantry”).
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