I took the time to add up my books read during the past year and can't decide if I should think that my total was great, okay or dreadful. As best as I can remember they were:
- Antigone (Sophocles) StFran
- Bottchan (Saseki) StFran
- Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) StFran
- Bridge over the River (Boulle) Kwai ZRG
- Crossing to Safety (Stegner) My Choice
- Don Quixote (Cervantes) StFran
- Gilead (Robinson) My Choice
- The Help (Stockett) My Choice
- Home (Robinson) My Choice
- Midaq Alley (Mahfouz) St Fran
- The Moviegoer (Percy) StFran
- The Penderwick's (Birdsall) ZRG
- Portrait of Dorian Gray (Wilde) My Choice
- Prince and the Pauper (Twain) ZRG
- Richard III (Shakespeare) StFran
- River Poems (Various Poets) ZRG
- Watch on the Rhine (Hellman) ZRG
- Where the Music Was (East) My Choice
- Witch at Blackbird Pond (Speare) ZRG
- Year of Wonders (Brooks) My Choice
The stats are a little sad: I read 20 books.... not bad, but not stunning considering that one was a grouping of poetry and two were children's books (the Zachary group is doing children's this year so I have an excuse!) I'll pat myself on the back though over Don Quixote which was over 1,000 pages and yet I'll sheepishly admit that I listened to portions of it on audio while I was driving.
The telling part of this is that I only read seven books of my own choosing... and most of those in the last two months of the year.
So Resolve #1 is to read, read, Read, READ and READ..... So many books, so little time, as the saying goes!
For Resolve #2, I'll be having friends over for meals more often than I did last year. The first half of 2010, I used the excuse of having sheetrock dust and wallpaper debris everywhere while we used every available minute of free time getting the house prepped to go on the market. Then I just sort of coasted along from May through December seeing friends at restaurants and hosting only an occasional dinners here at the house.
I probably should have taken on losing weight, giving up sugar, walking, learning yoga, drinking more water or taking daily vitamins but steeling myself up for a grueling year of reading, cooking and visiting sounded like not only a more attainable goal but a lot more fun.
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