Welcome back to Hardcore Literature, your favourite book club.

Deep dives into the greatest books ever written.

Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses.

We don't just read the great books. We live them.

Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy and many more.

We'll relish the most moving art ever committed

to the page and stage from every age. Join us and me, your host, Benjamin McAvoy, on the

reading adventure of a lifetime with hardcore literature. Hello everybody, how are you doing

today? I hope you're doing well and I hope your reading is going well.

As the end of the year approaches, I thought now would be the perfect time to talk about goals and habits for the new year,

specifically our reading goals and habits. How can we get all the more out of our books in 2022 I have 10 top

reading tips and goals for you to make sure the year ahead is your best

reading year to date so join me pull up a chair grab yourself a drink and let's

start planning our year ahead let's get into. Okay, before we start to talk about our

reading goals for the year ahead, which is a wonderful thing to do towards the close of a year

because a deep reading program that's well thought out helps us scaffold meaning onto it. We start

to derive a greater sense of purpose for our own lives and a deep reading

program brings a lot of different issues into stark focus. I would like to ask you, how was your

year? The year just gone. At time of recording, this is December 2021. It's been a rather tum tumultuous hectic and some may even say

chaotic couple of years it's been a rather traumatic time not just nationally and globally but we have

all been dealing with our own problems our own fights our, our own struggles. Whilst the world and all the

different events of the world take centre stage on the news, we quietly get on with our own problems.

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