Top Ten Books I Resolve To Read In 2013

Gone are the days when I make resolutions to read a lot of books that I end up forcing myself to read. This year, I've decided to make some open-ended resolutions, resolutions I can't help but accomplish in course of a year. 

Here, then, are the books I hope to read in 2013:

1. Classics.

I'm thinking about either
Anna Karenina or East of Eden.
My ftf book club is reading
Pride and Prejudice in February and
To Kill a Mockingbird in March, so
I hope to reread both of these.

 2. Books about Italy.
I've accumulated an enormous stack over the last two years,
as we'd hoped to go to Italy last summer, but didn't.
I might read A Thousand Bells at Noon;
Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves; That Fine Italian Hand;
Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison;
Italian Soup Cookbook;
A Traveller in Italy by H. V. Morton;
or The Seasons of Rome by Paul Hofmann.

3. 1001 Children's Books You Must Read.

I plan to read Wendy Orr's Peeling the Onion,

David Almond's The Fire-Eaters,

Robert Michael Ballantyne's The Coral Island, and

Margaret Mahy's The Changeover 

as all of these are on our schedule in coming months.

4. Books about Happiness.
I've signed up to join in a blog tour of
Sonja Lyubomirsky's The Myths of Happiness in January.
I hope I will read other books on happiness this year.

5. Writing Books.
I'm taking an essay writing class next semester.
I have Good Prose by Tracy Kidder awaiting me.

6. Poetry
William Stafford's You Must Revise Your Life
is here. Hope to find others.

7. Photography Books.
Happily I received Photo Op for Christmas,
so I hope to try one photo project each week in 2013.

8. Children's Picture Books.
Always happy to have these come my way.
Like these that arrived this week:
Fifty Cents and a Dream and Look! Another Book!

9. Good Nonfiction.
Maybe Pico Iyer's Falling Off the Map.

 10. Good Fiction.
Thinking about Elizabeth Taylor's A View of the Harbor
and Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.


What are your book plans for 2013?
I'm always interested in your recommendations
and suggestions.

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