I’m sorry for my recent silence. I have been a bit behind on things and it has shown here. One of my goals for 2012 is to get ahead in my post writing so when life happens, things will be covered here. I’m posting some of my business related/financial goals at my other blog Leap of Faith, feel free to check them out. I thought it would be fun to post some of my personal goals here. So this week will be about planning for 2012. I know a lot of people hate resolutions. I really think of them more as goals for the year. I like the idea of a fresh year where anything can happen. And I tend to be a planner so I guess making resolutions fits my personality.
My first resolution for the year is to read more. I actually read a decent amount; this is really about reading better quality. I was thinking the other day that there are a lot of classics that I haven’t read. For some reason in high school we seemed to read John Steinbeck and Shakespeare; and that was it. I feel like I’ve read part of other classics in various English Literature classes but not a lot of full classic novels. I have read some classics on my own but many of them are more recent classics like To Kill a Mockingbird (one of my all-time favorite books by the way), Out of Africa (another favorite) and Gone with the Wind. I would like to read some more of the older classics, like Dickens and Austen and Dostoevsky. I also have a pile of regular old-style books, you know the kind that you can’t read on your iPad or phone, that I need to read. So my goal is to read one classic and one of my stockpiled books per month. I will also be reading a book club book each month. I averaged two and half books per month last year so this could get a little difficult, especially if some of the classics are hard to get into. But I will push through! And January will be easy because I actually have the paperback of the January book club book. Here are the classics I have on my list so far:
- The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (I started this one awhile back and never finished it, but I was enjoying it)
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (this is a newer one but I’ve started it last month and haven’t yet finished it)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (also a newer one; I’ve heard great things about it)
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulker (okay, several of these are newer; but they will probably go a little faster so it’s not so bad to mix a few of them in, right?)
I would also like to add some Mark Twain and either The Odyssey or The Iliad. What are your favorite classics? I would love suggestions!
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