I'm not sure, but as I lay here, trying to figure out how much more regimen, order, challenge, and growth I can pack into my life these days, I came up with a plan that certainly sounds quite a lot like a resolution. It's a plan to read 11 great works of literature within the next 12 months.
This plan started out after seeing A Christmas Carol in 3D with my parents this Thanksgiving, and remembering how beautiful a story it is and how absolutely perfect the words are. I need to see them on paper again, and make sure I have read the whole thing through at least once in my life. Then this got me thinking about all the other books out there that I'd like to read, books that peek my interest but never made it onto the required list in high school, where both sadly and happily, depending on how you look at it, I've done most of my fiction perusing.
So here's my list. Tell me what you think of it. I could add others, like Love Story, or some Shakespeare, or some something, but these are just a few classics that I think I might actually like, and feel I might fall in love with once I read them.
A Christmas Carol
Don Quixote
Dangerous Liaisons
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina
Ulysses
The Great Gatsby
Mrs. Dalloway
The Trial
As I Lay Dying
One Hundred Years of Solitude
What are your favorite classics? I am a big fan of the tortured romance, and so I love Great Expectations and Lolita.
I'll be getting a library card in the area soon and crossing off the books on this list that I get through as soon as I finish them, in between putting up my Christmas tree, playing Wii with my family, and flitting in and out of work like a bonafide crazy woman. And yoga. And writing. And guitar eventually. And that's enough. Well, and maybe if you're lucky and I am diligent, I will write reviews about each book here too, so you can know what's worth investing your rainy Sunday reading time in. But at any rate, keep me on track!!
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