Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts

01 January 2012

2012 Resolutions for Reading

For once, setting realistic resolutions really paid off in 2011:
  • Read 2666. Yes! I started it in July and read it on and off till November, but I finally did it. 
  • Knock 3 books off the Modern Library list.  How about four?! And two of them were books I would gladly recommend to others (CATCH-22, A BEND IN THE RIVER).
  • Read the 3 David Foster Wallace short-story collections. All right, I didn't do this. I didn't even read one, although I now own one. Maybe I'll do this this year, but I won't resolve to do it, because I don't know if short-story collections are my favorite thing in general. (That awkward moment when!)
Here's what I will resolve to do in 2012: 
  • Read more nonfiction. I own plenty and I'm interested in it, but it wasn't until looking through my entire list of books in 2011 that I found a hole there. Most of the nonfiction I did read, although I enjoyed it, was fairly niche. I think this one will complete itself without a problem. 
  • Knock 6 books off the Modern Library list. Aiming higher. 
  • Continue to strive to actually read the books I own. Not surprisingly, there are still a lot! Christmas was really good to me in this regard, not that I'm complaining, but now I'm going to read those books. 
  • Change my blogging process a little. Just going to leave this here since I'm sure the minutiae will just put to sleep. But, see if you notice anything!