A Book A Week: Post Mortem

Well, I did it.  I think this might be the only New Year’s Resolution I have ever kept.  I got off schedule a bit, and I didn’t stick to the original idea of having each week correspond to a particular theme, but I managed to read through 52 books in 2009.  I did enjoy it and I enjoyed sharing my thoughts on them with you.

I’m not making a 2010 book-based New Year’s resolution, but I do have reading plans.  I think after a year of new books, that it might be time to revisit some old favorites, and some that I’ve been promising myself to read and couldn’t get to in 2009 because I knew I couldn’t finish them in a week.

So what’s on tap for 2010?  I’m not entirely sure, but I hope it can include:

The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.  I read this once several years ago.  It was one of the hardest and one of the best books I have read.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.  This is my favorite American novel and quite possibly my favorite novel, period.  I try to reread it every few years and it’s due.

Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams.  Another favorite.  The last page makes me cry.  Every time.  It is the rabbit equivalent of “Well done, though good and faithful servant.”

Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Sir Walter Scott.  I’ve started this one several times, but never got through it.

That’s fiction.  I also plan to read some non-fiction.  I think one thing I have learned from the past year of reading is that I like biographies more than I thought I did.

I’ll probably post the occasional book review here just to keep myself honest.  Right now I have about 6 months of Field & Stream to catch up on.

Keep reading.