ILB Resolutions '09

Promised myself I'd read Remembrance of Things Past and Henry James' The Golden Bowl.

What resolutions will you be breaking this year.

I vow to read Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle. But I'm sure I'll get distracted by something new and shiny.

I'm'a read me summa them books! Boo-yah! It would be nice If I finally read Don Quixote or if I finally gave up on ever reading Don Quixote. Either way is good. It is this constant suspense I can't stand.

i need to read some klassics. i too am easily distracted by shiny shiny candy. well, you know, lit candy, but candy all the same. i wanna read some big fat dickens books and some balzac this year. and more henry james.

I need to read more classix too, but I was thinkin' like, ancient greek/roman classix

need to finally read the last 3 chapters of Ulysses, cuz that's been hangin' over my head for six or seven months now

read one or more of the following BIG BOOKS which have been sitting on my shelves for a long time unread: The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, Underworld

start checking out books from the library again instead of buying everything I'm interested in reading

i need to spend more time writing/less time reading.

"I need to read more classix too, but I was thinkin' like, ancient greek/roman classix"

pliny the younger's letters make great bathroom reading!

"i need to spend more time writing/less time reading."

this was me last year. and i did write more last year. but i spent a long time writing something that i don't think i can sell to anyone, and it kinda bummed me out. so, this year i read. and spend more time with my kids. i stopped writing for decibel mag, and for the first time in nine years i don't have anyone to write for. which feels weird. but also liberating. i'm gonna paint more too this year.

"Do not buy any more books by writer X unless you have already read all the books by them which you already own!"

^^^

(yup James you nailed it; that is a maxim I will break repeatedly this year, and then hate on myself for having done so...)

My resolution is to not buy a single book this year and work on my entire "waiting to be read" shelf

my resolution for this year is to find new and interesting authors, and to stop just looking for the same ones in bookstores.

also: to read alice munro's entire back catalog; some more t.c. boyle; and finally, FINALLY reread and finish 'journey to the end of the night'.

i got 52 books to read, 2 down 50 to go

made a spreadsheet HAW

i have just started a spreadsheet of my WANT books! :)

this basically acts as a wishlist for whenever bf wants to buy me something, or for birthday etc.

<3 spreadsheets, aren't they just the best?

I wrote out a list of 52 books I wanted to read. Knew I wanted to include: 2 "tough" books that were lengthy/made me groan a little when I thought of approaching them to read but that I wanted to suck it up and read anyway, 5 architecture books, all of Nabokov's English novels and a healthy amount of nonfic. I've always liked following a reading list, but making my own? I'm just really excited about reading every single thing on it now.

i'm not good with reading lists - i just get distracted. plus, i go through phases: trashy fiction, poetry, short stories, art books, realist/minimalist and so on. like, i have this cather stuff to read but just can't get into it, yet i saw the BEE book and HAD to have it and read it right away (btw it's getting very very creepy and last night i'm pretty sure the malcontent dog called victor popped up in one of my dreams).

oh and my other resolution is to update my librarything catalogue.

plus, i go through phases: trashy fiction, poetry, short stories, art books, realist/minimalist and so on. [

Yeah, this is definitely the downfall of making loongterm reading lists. I've found I've just gotta be flexible with myself. And, you know, I can read extracurricular stuff all I want. I obviously have plenty of time (see 3rd shift thread lol).

ha! Since starting this thread I have also made a reading list for the very first time ever! It didn't occur to me to count how many buts its about 50 or so, definitely.

Only fiction tho' -- which is why I did it, as I'll read non-fiction, poetry, plays and I want to solely concentrate on novels and short stories until the beginning of August (my birthday). Mostly from France and US and Latin American lit, with the odd Russian/German/Italian/Japanese work.

have started keeping a reading journal, hoping to kill two birds with one stone (tried keeping a journal before but could never think of anything to write about; will feel better about reading so much if I at least have "something to show for it")

i (really) would like to read all of Shakespeare this year...as well as a good portion of Balzac...we'll see though...