I want to read more this year. I haven’t been doing enough reading, and want to get back into the habit.
Things started out well; I had a week of vacation at the beginning of the year and plunged back into the world of books, and I want to keep up the momentum. To that end, I decided a few goals might be in order.
The first is a Back to the Classics ChallengeI found on a blog. Hooray! There are 9 categories:
- 19th Century Classic
- 20th Century Classic
- Reread a Classic
- Classic Play
- Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction
- Classic Romance
- Classic Translated
- Classic Award Winner
- Classic set somewhere you’re unlikely to visit
I need to pick my books and get on with it. Classics sometimes take a while to read. Too bad I read Jane Eyre a year ago, because winter is the perfect time to read that book and it definitely counts as a Classic Romance. Ah well. I’m sure I can find another. Also, last year it appears that Children’s/Young Adult Classic was on the list, and I am slightly unhappy that it didn’t make the list this year. Read on to goal three to find out why.
The second goal is to read the IAM Readers Guild books for this year. Well, except for January, because I’m in the middle of several other things at the moment. But starting in February!!
The third goal is to continue with a group I roughly organize (so yeah, I’d better be involved!) which gathers to read children and young adult literature. Delightful. So fun (but now do you see why I’m sad about the Classics Challenge? I could have had a double point book! Alas). This month we’re reading The Hobbit –and it was so fun to read it again. Also, I have now watched the trailer for the upcoming first installment of the movie about 10 times. Sold. I will be in a theater next December watching this movie.
Well folks, that’s all I’ve got for this evening. Perhaps I will let you know how things are going periodically. And remind me to tell you about the most hilarious Christmas gift I got this year. It’s fun.
Thank you for joining the Challenge! I’m sorry that the YA/Children’s category didn’t repeat this year. I try to change up the categories to keep the Challenge fresh year to year. But there is no reason why you can’t read classic young adult literature if it fits into one of the categories! The Little Prince is certainly a translation from French to English for example. Good Luck and have fun!
I love reading goals! And I particularly love that two of yours mean that we will see each other.
Also, thinking more on this – many people are reading The Hobbit (or other books by Tolkien) for the last category, as you can’t actually go to Middle Earth.
Yeah, that trailer just excites me every time I watch it (I, too, have watched it several times).
Also, I’m a fan of Russian lit… That should be your language choice. One of my favorites is Crime and Punishment.
I’m a fan of these goals and working through my long list of Classics. I probably have a lot of the books, if you’d like to borrow.