I started thinking about what books I might like to try and read in 2012 over a month ago. The list grew and grew. When I sat down to really start thinking about it last week I realized how incredibly ridiculous it had become so I tossed it out the metaphorical window and tried again. I've reached a more reasonable plan now that is actually achievable instead of merely aspirational.
- Persuasion by Jane Austen. It seems I have begun rereading an Austen book every year. Over the last three years I've done Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Sense and Sensibility. At first I thought I might read Emma but I wasn't feeling it, I kept thinking I'd rather read Persuasion so that's what made it to the plan. I think it will be the third time I've read it.
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. I have these listed together because they are connected. Both books are the only ones in Nabokov's Lectures on Literature that I have not read or read recently enough to remember well. I read Madame Bovary about six years ago. ...
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