Resolutions for 2008

- read 100 books
- read more in French
- update this blog more regularly, and try to write a bit more about the books I read
- keep my new blog going
- read more poetry
- read some Proust

On with the new year

So the new year starts well: I received a twenty pound book token for Skoob books as a Christmas present. Not sure yet what I'll spend it on.

I need to update this blog more regularly, although as I'm planning on starting another blog about clothes, this may require some dedication. Giving up the threads (again) should help with this aim.

I'll try and carry on reading more French and German stuff until June, when I'll graduate, at which point I want to rediscover all the science I've forgotten, and read lots of Russian stuff. Read more poetry, and maybe have a go at Proust, I think.

Happy New Year to all my readers.

... and new year

So, here are my reading resolutions for this year.

• Read 100 books
• Read more in French and German
• Read more about the French revolution, the European eighteenth century and the Enlightenment generally
  
• German philosophy: read around my course. Get to grips with Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche
• Read more Marx (again!) possibily even in German
• Read more eighteenth century French lit
  
• Concentrate on late 19th century and 20th century German writers
• As a mini-project, try and read more European writing on the First World War

I'll try and do a best of 2006 blog at some point soonish.

Happy New Year to my four readers! Have a great year.

Literary resolutions

To read a hundred books this year

To have some specific interests: the long 19th century; the realist european novelists; Racine; Shelley; linguistics; Thomas Mann; middle eastern history.

To read more Marx.

To buy some decent, keepable books, and only get trash and contemporary novels from the library.

To not run up library fines.

To avoid rereading childrens' books and trash, and read new worthwhile things instead.