May29
goals, reading
My Reading Challenge
Anyone who knows me knows that I love to read and I particularly love the classics. Before I took on the role of MindComet’s leader in August, I was working on the The Modern Library (Random House) Top 100 Novels of all times list (the Board List.)
When I set out on this adventure, I set two simple rules: 1) I had to read every book, even if I had read it in high school or college, and 2) I had to write an entry in my journal for each novel. It has been at least a year since I’ve paid any attention to this list so I’m adding a third goal: 3) read at least one book per month. I’ll have to give up some of my management, marketing and technology literature for the prose of Nabokov and Steinbeck, but I’m ready! I’m going to start from the bottom of the list and work my way up to number one, skipping the nine books I was able to finish in 2008.
This weekend I will start “The Magnificent Ambersons” by Booth Tarkington followed by “The Ginger Man” by J.P. Donleav in July. As for “Wuthering Heights”, I’m going to have to develop a serious reading strategy with dictionary in tow!
Does anyone have any advice for approaching this type of reading adventure?
Posted by Marcelle Turner on May. 29, 2009
I am the opposite of most readers. I never have a hard time finding a non-fiction book that I am interested to read, but I always seem to have a hard time picking a novel to read. I think i’ll…
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Posted by Erik Folgate on 07/08/2009 10:57 AM