2006 Reading Resolution

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:52pm

This year I will read the following novels:

DaVinci Code
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Pulitzer Prize winner)
All of Kurt Vonnegut novels that I haven't read yet
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Color Purple
This Boys Life

And so on . . . . . . . .

[Chenofan #1]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 5:53pm

This year I will read... What is required for school.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:00pm

Awwww . . . let's get more creative than that

[duroc]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:04pm

I've been having health issues lately, so one of my goals is to get that straightened out... once I'm healthy again, though, I'd like to start going to the gym again. Also, a goal (or resolution) I have is to learn to juggle 4 balls. Oh, and start learning another language... french or japanese.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:07pm

Good on the creativity . . .not on the subject though.

Updated On: 1/1/06 at 06:07 PM

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:08pm

The Alchemist
Haunted
Actually read the books I am supposed to for school.

Akiva

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:13pm

the rest of Wicked
At This Theatre

[jasonf]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:14pm

Was SO not impressed with Haunted. The first story grossed me out and it was just downhill from there...

I will read:

The Crimson Petal and the White (I'm 100 pages in, so good, but I still have like 800 more to go!)
The rest of the William Goldman books I have on my shelf that I haven't gotten to (about 5 more).
Everything Was Possible - Ted Chapin
If Minister Faust or Jasper Fforde write a new book, that too.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:18pm

I'm kind of a Chuck addict though, so I feel obliged. Plus I am not easily grossed out, reading-wise.

Akiva

[singingwendy]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:19pm

Oooh...I need to catch up on my Jasper Fforde.....

Book club decided to read the first two Chronicles of Narnia..(published order, not chronological), so I'll be reading (or re-reading) those.....

And then get through the other pile of books I bought thanks to Border's buy 2 get one free sales...plus their coupons, and educator discounts.....Dangerous, dangerous store that borders....LOL

[duroc]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:25pm

opps, lol... yeah, guess I glossed over the title... well, reading resolutions, I'd like to read some books on the economy/stockmarket.

[ikmbway]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 6:32pm

Finish A Christmas Carol for school. I do not understand one bit of it and at the moment am trying to answer 20 questions and only have one answered. Also for school requirements the Harry Potter books because their point value is the highest. And when Anthony's book comes out I have to find room in my schedule to read that.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 7:22pm

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. I've been meaning to read it for six years now, but everytime I take it out from the library, I find myself too busy to crack it open.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 7:34pm

finish all the books I'm currently halfway through, then:

Without You :A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent
The Color Purple
The DaVinci Code
Angels and Demons
Stiff
United States History: Preparing for the AP Exam
Earth in the Balance
Che Guevara: a biography
Memoirs of a Geisha
& anything required for school


Holy crap. I best get started.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 7:37pm

Where is everyone getting these advanced copies of Anthony Rapp's book?

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 7:42pm

I dont have one, but I plan to get one and read it when it comes out. These lists are for all of 2006, no?

[wexy]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 7:45pm

Waiting for Ian McEwan's "Saturday" to come out in tradepaper

[Patronus]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 8:10pm

This actually is right up my alley because one of my Resolutions this year was to read more.

I've been prepping for this for a couple of weeks, so I already have the beginnings of a list prepared.

- The Color Purple By Alice Walker
- Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppelganger by Neil McCormick
- Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas by Michka Assayas
- Art and Audience (It's a text book, but I am interested in a beginners Art lesson)
- Stephen Sondheim: A life by Meryle Secrest
- Art Isn't Easy: The Theater of Stephen Sondheim by Joanne Lesley Gordon
- Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls by Allen L. Woll
- The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
- All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
- Deception Point by Dan Brown
- My Life by President Clinton
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Updated On: 1/1/06 at 08:10 PM

[Celestial Entropy]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 8:10pm

Read the Memoirs of a Geisha (gift from daughter)
Predator by Patricia Cornwell (gift from the fiance)
Finish Son of a Witch (having a hard time getting into it)
Reread The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawkins
Get my hands on and read The Sun by Steel Hill... it comes out in May and is a scientific look at the solar impact the sun has on our planet. Last I talked with Mr. Hill, my photography was still being used in the book.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 8:11pm

I am currently reading the new Warren Beatty bio by Suzanne Finstad.

I love biographies.

[duroc]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 8:29pm

BlueWizard, you'll like God of Small Things. I read it for my Global Women Writers class. It was my favorite of all the books we read.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 10:28pm

Everything that's required for school. (Including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. )

A Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - James Shapiro
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
The March - E.L. Doctorow
All of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle
All of Sandman
Every issue of Fables, and maybe Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man

In movie-related books:
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
The Fountain, by Darren Aronofsky, art by Kent Williams

And generally speaking, stuff by Yasunari Kawabata, Wolfgang Iser, Tom Stoppard, Neil Gaiman, and Orhan Pamuk.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:05am

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is one of my absolute favorite books that I've read as of reading it this year. Let's see if it stands the test of time. I think it might make a good musical. Sorry if someone said that already, I'm too tired to read the whole thread :P

I'm not going to make any resolutions for books this year... I average a book or two a week so I think I'll just finish what I've bought recently and take them as they come. I'm currently working on (have been for a while, it's a slow read) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's autobiography To Tell the Story, James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and a collection of Sean O'Casey plays. I'll keep y'all updated ;P

[grizzabella]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:23pm

Finish "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell," which I keep picking up and putting down. Disadvantage is that it's too big for my briefcase.
Also to read "Hiding In The Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond" by
Lawrence M. Krauss, which I got for Christmas because I asked for it.