2009 Book Goals part one

Category: dribblings

looking back on the books i read in 2008 one can see that i read mostly mystery/crime fiction. and of the nonfic i read probably 30-50% (totally non-scientific numbers) of that was true crime. so i thought that maybe it would be better (healthier?) to sort of come up with a To Read list that would help diversify my reading for 2009. liz and i have talked about making such a list for two years. we’ve just never sat down and actually made out a list.

so the other night, after a smidge of booze consumption, i was sitting by the computer and decided to make a list. i scrawled a list on an index card with a sharpei, no wait, that’s sharpie. and then i talked with liz to see if she had anything to add to the list. and now i’ll post the list (with ramblings) so that you can see it and perhaps, hopefully, you can add some things to the list be it authors, titels, and/or subjects.

Beowulf – with liz! yay!
Sherlock Holmes
Daphne du Marnier
Rudyard Kipling
Willa Cather
Faulkner – do i have to?
Norman Mailer – if i read Mailer can i skip Hemingway?
Eudora Welty
Northanger Abbey

liz wants to read some Greek Tragedy so i told her i’d join her on that. Oedipus? Iliad?

whose biography? Truman Capote is a possibility.

nonfiction:
something about Salem
Churchill’s WWII writings

i have no clues as to anything for sci-fi/fantasy/sf

should i throw in some shakespeare? or any other drama? poetry?

i’m sure i’m going to read some crime novels and true crime. it just… it just happens, okay?

so please, if you have anything to add do so in the comments. i’d appreciate it.

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