Janice, to follow your lead:
Three for 2014 --this is too close to a New Year's resolution for my liking, but here goes:
1. Willhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1796), by Goethe, J.W.v
To read this auf Deutsch has long been a wish, a hope and an oft postponed plan.
2. Shakespeare's Comedies
OK Janice, your conniving, scheming prodding has worked its wicked magic. I have committed myself --but only, so far, to the Comedies.
Happy now?
3. Against the Day (2006), by Thomas Pynchon
This is an actual obligation (since it was, long ago now, gifted to me), but it also presents me with a golden opportunity to face up to the reluctance I have had towards indulging Pynchon's style. At least by the end of it (1000+ pages) I should know more precisely what I do and/or don't like in his writing. Who knows? maybe I'll come around . . . or maybe he already has?
So, . . . I once resolved not to make such resolutions --because I knew I would break it, and now I have. And that's why I took it in the first place. There's just no escaping resolutions. Damn!
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