Happy New Year, everyone!
So €¦ any Reading Resolutions? Say, specific books you plan to read? A plan to read more ____? Anything at all? Name me at least ONE thing you’re looking forward to reading this year!
I’ve listed some of the books I’d like to read this year for the What’s In a Name 2 Challenge and then there are books from my to-be-read lists and the books I had for Christmas.
I’d also like to read these:
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Dante’s Divine Comedy
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The End of Faith, Religion, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
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The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga) by John Galsworthy
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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
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Remember Me by Melvyn Bragg
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Being Shelley by Anne Wroe
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Eden’s Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
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The Helmet of Horror: the Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin
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Walking by Henry David Thoreau
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The Pleasure of Reading edited by Antonia Fraser
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What a lovely title: The Pleasure of Reading! Happy New Year.
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Reading Resolutions — just read more. More variety, more in number, more new authors, more classics, more from my stacks, etc. etc. Happy New Year!
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I read The Man of Property years ago and really enjoyed it. And every year I tell myself that this is going to be the year I finally read The Divine Comedy, but so far I’ve managed to talk myself out of it every time. Maybe this year….
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I plan to read the Inferno this year.
New Year’s Resolution
Happy New Year
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Good luck with your reading resolution! Happy New Year!
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I was just thinking about The Divine Comedy yesterday. Not sure if I’ll tackle it this year since I’m going to read The Faerie Queene, but one never knows!
Happy New Year!
Lezlie
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You’ve got some great books on that list — I’m intrigued by the Wroe book on Shelley, and The Pleasure of Reading sounds great too.
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The Antonia Fraser book sounds great!
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What a great list! I’m not making any goals for the year. I do have Eden’s Outcasts though and hope to get to it sometime during the year. Happy 2009!
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Galsworthy and Dante are also on my to-read lists for 2009. I’ve never heard of The Pleasure of Reading, but I like Fraser’s work – sounds interesting :)
Happy New Year!
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You have some interesting books. Have fun reading and Happy new year.
Robin
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Happy New Year, Margaret! I don’t have many plans for this year, but I do have a couple of lists I’d like to pick books from! I would love to read the Galsworthy books, but I’m not sure it will happen. I love the sound of the Fraser book.
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I have Eden’s Outcasts, and hope to read it this year, too. I read a few of the Galsworthy years ago when the show was on PBS. I remember them as okay but not my faves.
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