Yea!! Congratulations!! You were smart to make a running list. I just went back through my LJ and wrote up my 2009 list which was a nice exercise. Actually I was more like, "I don't remember reading that!" Old age - haha.
I stole that running list idea from someone. Otherwise, I lose steam and give up.
I don't think that is so much a sign on "old age" as either poor writing or a story that just doesn't stay with you. I have looked back through my lists and tried to remember what the hell it was about. If I can't remember characters or plot, I think it is the writer's foible.
Do you have any list of potential suspects for 2010?
I have another John Connolly book on hold (The Gates of Hell) but after that I'm not sure. I think I'd like to tackle some Dickens this year and I want to finally finish the Thomas Hardy book I started 5 years ago (Jude the Obscure). Maybe I'll just read 'Far From the Madding Crowd' again (for the third time). I'm in a 'classics' mode lately.
Of course I will read lots of children's lit, no doubt. :)
I am on chapter 14 of The Book of Lost Things (which I started yesterday). I am loving it! Thanks for the rec.
I have always wanted to read Jude the Obscure since my gorgeous gay wall-eyed English professor told us about it. I also have The Life and Times of Tristam Shandy waiting around on a shelf since he told us about it. . . more than TEN years ago. *sigh*
I am going to try to read all the books that I have discussed with Michael Wounded Knee, How Irish Saved Civilization and the Morgan Llewellyn books. I also have a ton of other Irish-subject books that I have purchased that I would like to be more than just shelf ornaments to me.
And I would like to delve into some of the Lincoln books I have amassed over the years.
But I am sure it will be filled with whatever you read and what I can get on audio. ;D
And oh, yeah. At least two more Harry Potters. Not sure where we will go after those.
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Do you have your full 50 list up anywhere?
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Oh well, on to 2010!
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I don't think that is so much a sign on "old age" as either poor writing or a story that just doesn't stay with you. I have looked back through my lists and tried to remember what the hell it was about. If I can't remember characters or plot, I think it is the writer's foible.
Do you have any list of potential suspects for 2010?
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Of course I will read lots of children's lit, no doubt.
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I have always wanted to read Jude the Obscure since my gorgeous gay wall-eyed English professor told us about it. I also have The Life and Times of Tristam Shandy waiting around on a shelf since he told us about it. . . more than TEN years ago. *sigh*
I am going to try to read all the books that I have discussed with Michael Wounded Knee, How Irish Saved Civilization and the Morgan Llewellyn books. I also have a ton of other Irish-subject books that I have purchased that I would like to be more than just shelf ornaments to me.
And I would like to delve into some of the Lincoln books I have amassed over the years.
But I am sure it will be filled with whatever you read and what I can get on audio. ;D
And oh, yeah. At least two more Harry Potters. Not sure where we will go after those.
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