Sunday, March 29, 2009

A "new book" free April... what does that mean?

So most of you know that I'm a book-a-holic, but I'm giving up buying books for the month of April.  In doing that, many would wonder what am I going to read... well, here's a short list of what I'm in the middle of, and what's on deck:
Currently Reading:
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen 
The Smoke Jumper - Nicholas Evans  (I'm struggling with this one... but I hate to give up) 

Classics in the stack:
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Journey To The Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
Alice in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll 
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 

Contemporaries in the stack:
Several Agatha Christies 
About A Boy - Nick Hornby
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood 
Fever Pitch - (also Nick Hornby)
Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
The Sleeping Beauty Proposal - Sarah Strohmeyer 

and several more buried in the stacks... so just because I can't buy new, doesn't mean I'll go unfulfilled.    Really my goal is to get through the ones I'm in the middle of... but my guess is that I'll get through one of those, and probably a couple of contemporaries... but i'll likely do a re-read of something... I am way too set in my ways.  

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