It occurs to me that one of the phrases I use most often on these pages is "I've never read ...".
Book X, author Y, genre Z, it's ironic that since starting this blog I've read more than ever before and yet I'm acutely aware of what I've missed (thus far), and those gaps are inevitably huge and sometimes - to me, at least - quite shaming. The more I talk about books here with readers who so generously share their tastes and recommendations and with fellow bloggers who are a source of so much of interest, the longer the wish list grows and the greater that category of the untried, the undiscovered, becomes.
To address this I thought I might just adopt the gentle technique which is proving effective with 'cookbook of the week' on the other site - simply making a point of filling one of those gaps I mentioned. I wouldn't call this a reading challenge or a resolution as such, nor would I bind it up with 'rules'; I read plenty to deadlines already, and whether I'm going for breadth or depth I want this to be a pleasure, not an imposition, but I am - as I say - going to make a point of listing some authors and books I've never read, choosing one to start with and getting on with it at whatever pace it dictates and my other reading commitments allow.
Is anyone game to join in with this? No pressure, no dates, no 'musts' or 'shoulds', no progress (or lack of it) to report unless you want to, just fill in the blank in the following sentence:
"I've never read ...., though I've always meant/would really like to try it/him/her",
and then see what happens!
