I've been putting off taking stock of my bookcases ever since I moved back to Seattle a few years ago, but I decided this year's resolution for New Years would be literary. No more pledges to get off my ass and get back in shape, or to be more sociable on the weekends. Instead I opted for something that I might actually have the self-control to carry through. So my resolution falls in two parts:
Part One:
I am not allowed to purchase any new books until I cut down on the number of unread ones currently on my shelves. Specifically, for every two books I check off on my enormous "to read" list, I am allowed to purchase 1 new book. To get myself started, I pulled TWENTY books off the shelves. When I read 10 of them, I get a bonus book. When I finish the stack I'll reward myself with something nice! When I knock off 2, I will add the book I purchase as well as 1 more unread volume from my shelves to the list. It's humorous to find the reciepts inside of some of these volumes and realize they were purchased as far back as 2000 or 2001 without having been read yet...I'm so bad!
List of 20:
Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho finished, March
The Egtyptologist, by Arthur Phillips **currently reading
Glory, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Jose Saramago
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Old School, Tobias Wolff
Numbers in the Dark, Italo Calvino
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Housekeping vs The Dirt, Nick Hornby
The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
Words Without Borders, Compilation
Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart (might have to reread The Russian Debutante's Handbook first)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
The Buddha Tree, Fumio Niwa
Embers, Sandor Marai
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
The Secret of Lost Things, Sheridan Hay
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Part Two:
I was planning to run this blog as a place to dump my thoughts and observations on gaming now that I am no longer in school and don't have semi-scholarly papers to write. However, I've got something in the works with a friend, Mary, and it will be much better than anything I would have managed by myself. Working together with other people on a blog not only provides for multiple persepctives, but better updating and more types of content...so it's a big win! I hope we get started on it soon but we're both pretty blocked on a name.
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