laymonite
12-29-2010, 12:22 PM
For the moment, let's set aside plans to stop smoking, start working out, go on a diet, etc., and think about the more important life changes: literary resolutions! What books to you plan on finally tackling this year? Do you plan to learn any (or continue learning any) foreign languages in order to read works in the original? Do you plan to visit Kerouac's original scroll?
For me, I plan to tackle some of the literary doorstops that's I've been putting off so as to devour a wealth of other, shorter books, short stories, and poetry. Plus, with grad school out of the way now, I feel I have some breathing room to focus on one exhaustive piece at a time! My list includes War and Peace, the remainder of In Search of Lost Time (I've read the first two volumes), Infinite Jest, Finnegans Wake, and Ulysses, among others. I actually jumped the gun on the new year and started IJ. Wow. Also, I'm upping the frequency of the French tutoring I've been taking for a while now. And finally, I plan to visit the Chicago Institute of Art and/or the MOMA in March, as I'm broadening my knowledge and experience of visual art (stlukes, I anticipate your input here!).
But enough about my resolutions already!
For me, I plan to tackle some of the literary doorstops that's I've been putting off so as to devour a wealth of other, shorter books, short stories, and poetry. Plus, with grad school out of the way now, I feel I have some breathing room to focus on one exhaustive piece at a time! My list includes War and Peace, the remainder of In Search of Lost Time (I've read the first two volumes), Infinite Jest, Finnegans Wake, and Ulysses, among others. I actually jumped the gun on the new year and started IJ. Wow. Also, I'm upping the frequency of the French tutoring I've been taking for a while now. And finally, I plan to visit the Chicago Institute of Art and/or the MOMA in March, as I'm broadening my knowledge and experience of visual art (stlukes, I anticipate your input here!).
But enough about my resolutions already!