This list of ten volumes are all things that I feel I should have read by now as a former English Major. But somehow I have managed to get by all this time without cracking the cover of any them. This year, it is time to amend that fault. Here are my goals for this upcoming year of literature:
1. Les Miserables--Victor Hugo
2. For Whom the Bell Tolls--Earnest Hemingway
3. Anthony and Cleopatra--William Shakespeare
4. Tess of the d'Urbervilles--Thomas Hardy
5. The Princess Casamassima--Henry James
6. A Brave New World--Aldous Huxley
7. The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
8. Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger
9. The Color Purple--Alice Walker
10. The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Only ten, I know. But I am on an every-nine-month deadline, with novels due in both April and December, so I'll be doing good to fit these in! Some of them are quite large too.
I have read books by many of these authors before. I've read Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame; Earnest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms; lots of Shakespeare; Far from Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Hawthorne's The Marble Fawn, and a dozen or so of his short stories. But the above listed novels have managed to slip through the literary cracks. I am quite determined to fill in those cracks now as best I can!
This last year has been a year of primarily rereads for me anyway. Which has been great! Many of the books I have reread I haven't looked at in years, so it felt like coming to a whole new story. But it's good to keep building on your literary fortifications.
My writing goals are much simpler: Finish the draft of Book 5 (currently under the working title Dragonwitch, which is subject to change) and the draft of Book 6 (working title, Shadow Hand). I will also be polishing up Starflower for an autumn release and beginning to gather notes and ideas for future projects as yet unrevealed. So lots of busy, but not quite so concrete of goals . . .
Tell me, do you have any reading/writing goals you are setting for 2012? Or any creative goals, for that matter, photography, painting, music, etc. What are you going to do to ensure that you reach them?
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I need to reread the C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia books, and Ted Dekker's Circle Series. I've reread every book I own (including two of yours) over and over again, so, I'm thinking of giving those books a break and look for new awesome page turners.
Well, I need to read the Lord of the Rings series. I've read the Hobbit, but never the others.
Shameful, I know.
They are my favorite movies and I haven't read the books. But that's one of my goals....not sure how I'm going to ensure it. And another goal of mine is to actually finish one of my ongoing books. My friend and I are going to keep each other accountable for that one. :) Good luck on your reading projects!
I'm going to read 'Inheritance' by Christopher Paolini, finish the 'Ranger's Apprentice' series, read 'Cascade' and 'Torrent' by Lisa T. Bergren, and read many more books that I cannot think of right now. I have a reseach report due sometime in Jan. or Feb. that I need to do. My younger sister just picked up the trumpet, so one of my goals is to learn it, too, so I can play it along with the flute and piccolo in band. I really want to start taking fencing lessons, so I'll have to figure out a way to fit that in, too. It is kind of difficult to say it is my favourite sport without actually doing it for real.
One of my other goals is to be able to do things with my left hand just as well as I can with my right. I've been working on my writing for the past few days. It's going pretty well!
Christa here!
This is what I plan to read:
1. Moonblood
2. Starflower
3. Halo: Primordium by Greg Bear (Second book in The Forerunner Saga.)
4. Winter by Keven Newsome
And that's all I can think of for now.
I've read three of the books you listed.
Good for you, Galadriel! Which ones have you read?
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