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Tell us about your ambitious (or otherwise) reading plans for 2019.
I've lately begun a regimen, since I'm always supposedly, at least, reading a bunch of books at one time, of listing books in which I should read at least so-and-so many pages per day; or per week, or monthly; or quarterly.
I won't list here all of the ones I'm reading now. I intend, in 2019, to read 3+ pages of St. Augustine's The City of God each day (which will get me through the book almost exactly at the year's end), and one story by E. T. A. Hoffmann each quarter (which will be connected with a revival of an old thread).
The E. T. A. Hoffmann Thread
I expect that, when I'm reading a novel, I won't list it on the daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly list, since it seems novels go best if I try to read them, as a rule, within a few days. But I'm reading a number of things that lend themselves to a more leisurely pace, e.g. folktales, The Inklings and King Arthur, etc. Those can be listed.
I'm aiming at one story a month (at least) from one or other of Groff Conklin's anthologies during 2019.
Reading Around in Groff Conklin's Anthologies
"The Inklings and King Arthur: Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, Barfield on the Matter of Britain"
Folktales: Grimm, Asbjørnsen and Moe, Jacobs, Afanasyev, & more
I mean to read a story a week or better in Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse in 2019.
Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse
Big Intellectual Books You Own and Would Really Like to Have Read
I've lately begun a regimen, since I'm always supposedly, at least, reading a bunch of books at one time, of listing books in which I should read at least so-and-so many pages per day; or per week, or monthly; or quarterly.
I won't list here all of the ones I'm reading now. I intend, in 2019, to read 3+ pages of St. Augustine's The City of God each day (which will get me through the book almost exactly at the year's end), and one story by E. T. A. Hoffmann each quarter (which will be connected with a revival of an old thread).
The E. T. A. Hoffmann Thread
I expect that, when I'm reading a novel, I won't list it on the daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly list, since it seems novels go best if I try to read them, as a rule, within a few days. But I'm reading a number of things that lend themselves to a more leisurely pace, e.g. folktales, The Inklings and King Arthur, etc. Those can be listed.
I'm aiming at one story a month (at least) from one or other of Groff Conklin's anthologies during 2019.
Reading Around in Groff Conklin's Anthologies
"The Inklings and King Arthur: Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, Barfield on the Matter of Britain"
Folktales: Grimm, Asbjørnsen and Moe, Jacobs, Afanasyev, & more
I mean to read a story a week or better in Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse in 2019.
Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse
Big Intellectual Books You Own and Would Really Like to Have Read
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