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Resolved to Read in the New Year

Amy Lou Jenkins offers five reasons plus a bonus reason to resolve to read at least twelve books in the new year.

Learn history and science because facts and analysis shape better thinking.

Travel somewhere you can't physically go and enjoy and meet a world beyond your experience.

Experience ideas in verse that express meaning beyond words.

Take a brief dive into deep worlds with short story collections.

Enlarge your capacity for empathy and the ability to understand multiple perspectives. Enter the world of novels to find a reality that goes deeper than the page.

Meet someone in their memoir and find the themes that build their story and yours.

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