A new year is fast approaching, and it’s a good time for me to take a good, hard look at my leisure reading and resolve Read the full post.
Dec 31
2009
10:47 AM ET
New Year's resolutions for readers: For me, it's Jane Austen (hold the zombies)
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Michael Chabon is my favourite (Canadian spelling) author of all time and Kavalier is amazing. I like The Yiddish Policeman’s Ball even better. Lately, I’ve been catching up on my Kurt Vonnegut, and I have Catch 22 in my sightlines right now. Enjoy Kavalier and let us know how you liked it (then read Everything is Illuminated)…
I don’t know how it is possible to be an English major and not read a Jane Austen novel! I would think about a refund in tuition. Seriously.
Love Jane Austen! plannning on reading Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey this year! the only two i haven’t read!
I resolve to read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky as well as Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for they’ve been sitting on my shelf collecting dust for a few years now. I find it kind of amusing that it took an episode of “Castle” for me to really get serious about reading the former. Then again, that show also made me want to read the Poe stories I haven’t already read. Who says you can’t be an avid reader and TV fan at the same time?
Kavalier & Clay is one of the best novels that I’ve ever read. Period. I resolve to quit reading bad books after a 50-page trial. I won’t waste so much time on bad books.
Planning to explore science fiction which I really haven’t done before outside of the Dune series. Also planning to tackle War and Peace and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy
If you’re planning on starting sci-fi , I’d have to recommend the Ender’s Game series, by Orson Scott Card. I love these books, particularly the first one and have read them multiple times.
I am now reading Kavalier and Clay. So far I would agree with other comments that it is about a lot more than comic books. I have read Pride and Prejudice and many other Jane Austen novels, all of which I enjoyed quite a bit.
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