I actually kept my new year's resolution this year. I've always been a reader. I was an hours at the library, family trips to the bookstore after dinners out, books under the sheets kind of girl. The library might be a key word here - at some point in my young adult life, I decided that I didn't want to own books that weren't important to me as person. Perhaps it was because I moved so often and I only wanted to keep things that were treasured, perhaps it was because books, while being a relatively cheap purchase, add up quickly and so I wanted to make sure I spent money on books I loved, and went to the library for the rest. I lived over a decade with this mindset - rarely buying books that I hadn't already read and loved. Then, I slowly started to shift my thinking. First, I felt like independent bookstores and even more importantly authors deserved my investment. So I started buying some books that I knew I would love, preordering from some favorite authors, as...