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==Resolutions==

As the fireworks exploded over London on New Year’s Eve, I did what I always do on the stroke of midnight: I put down my half-full glass of bubbly and vowed not to touch another drop for the rest of the evening. It might sound rather boring, but I love to wake up on the first morning of the new year, fresh and ready to go. You see, unlike a lot of people, I am really rather fond of January 1st. All that promise. All those brand new opportunities.

That’s why resolution nine on my list is to make sure that I read for thirty minutes a day, before I go to sleep. It might sound rather pedantic to give myself a set time to pick up a book, but if I don’t, I know I will forget to fit it in. Oh, and resolution ten is to make sure I get to the end of any novel that I start. Some of the best books that I have ever read are those that cast a slow magic, that gripped me so gently that I barely noticed it at first but, when it came to the last chapter, I realised it had got under my skin. These are the type of books I want to reacquaint myself with this year. I cannot wait.

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