So Alice and I discussed our New Year's resolutions and agreed to post them - mine are a few days late, but here goes...
The books I am determined to read and finish in 2006:
1. Empire Falls and Straight Man by Richard Russo
Richard Russo is one of my favorite authors -- his books are funny, intelligent, and poignant. The first book I read was Nobody's Fool -- the story of Sully was pure pathos, his whole life a failure and his attempts to make some peace with it darkly comical. Russo is a gifted writer.
2. I'm hoping to finish a few mystery novel series this year:
John Rebus novels by Ian Rankin
V.I. Warshawski novels by Sara Paretsky
Kinsey Millhone novels by Sue Grafton
Kathy Mallory novels by Carol O'Connell
3. Some classics on my to read list...
Anything by Thomas Hardy!
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
5. Godless by Pete Hautman
6. The Rabbit Factory by Larry Brown
7. The Right Nation: How Conservatism Won by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
...because I don't want to believe its true :)
8. The New Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian
9. The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism by Haynes Johnson
10. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
Published in 2002, but even more important today. Still at the top of my nonfiction reading list, as soon as I get through those information architecture texts for work...
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I'm so proud of you, Kate! I'll get ideas from you. BTW, I read On Beauty and thought it was overrated. Zadie Smith has a tin ear for American dialects.
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