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"  Earlier this week, we asked our editors what resolutions they were making this year (you know, beyond the usual &amp;quot;lose weight&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sleep more&amp;quot;). Lucky for us, a lot of our staffers know a lot about what we&amp;#039;re looking to accomplish, so we decided to match resolution makers with our own in-house experts. Here&amp;#039;s the first in a series from our resolution buddies... The Resolution: &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t read nearly as much as I would have liked to last year. I want to finish at least a book a month in 2014, and I&amp;#039;d love a few suggestions to get me excited about reading this year.&amp;quot; \u2013 Nicole Price Fasig, GHRI Web Editor We went to Good Housekeeping Literary Editor Laura Mathews for her top picks for the start of 2014. Here are some titles she&amp;#039;s reading and loving now: The First Phone Call From Heaven by Mitch Albom (Harper Collins) Albom&amp;#039;s latest, a novel, culminates quietly on Christmas Day. The premise sounds corny \u2014 eight people in a small Michigan town start receiving phone calls from recently deceased loved ones, and everyone (including the reader) wonders if it&amp;#039;s a miracle or a hoax. But it&amp;#039;s sweet but not saccharine \u2014 and has enough tragedy to balance the sugar. Plus there&amp;#039;s a fun cast of characters and little unexpected plot twists.  Someone Else&amp;#039;s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson (Morrow) This southern charmer is a great read \u2014 not too heavy, not too light, with unexpected twists in a love story of sorts. It features a young single mom in Georgia and an attractive but outcast heartbroken widower, and lots of slightly quirky side characters. The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley (Viking) This British best seller looks at Edward VII, known as Bertie, a womanizer and gambler who became king at age 59 after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, and emerged as a conscientious ruler who redefined the monarchy for the 20th century. The London Independent called this &amp;quot;not only the best biography of King Edward VII; it&amp;#039;s also one of the best books about royalty ever published.&amp;quot; Also worth mentioning if you love sharp-witted women and movies: The Most of Nora Ephron (Knopf). And, of course, there are our favorite books from 2013 if you&amp;#039;re looking for even more. Happy reading! TELL US: What do you resolve to do more of this year? Maybe we can help! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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