Comments on: New Year’s Resolutions: Will You Change How You Read? http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read Independent Bookstore Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14361 Bob Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:23 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14361 Nice post. Here's the three specific reading goals I made for 2010: *Read two Pulitzer prize winners, one that wins in 2010 *Complete Silman's Reassess Your Chess workbook *Review all books I read in 2010 at amazon.com Nice post. Here’s the three specific reading goals I made for 2010:
*Read two Pulitzer prize winners, one that wins in 2010
*Complete Silman’s Reassess Your Chess workbook
*Review all books I read in 2010 at amazon.com

]]> By: Molly http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14360 Molly Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:14:47 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14360 Patrick: I recommend Wilkie Collins' <i>The Woman in Whiter</i> as one of your pre-1900 novels. It's wonderful prose--and a page-turner-thriller, to boot. Patrick: I recommend Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in Whiter as one of your pre-1900 novels. It’s wonderful prose–and a page-turner-thriller, to boot.

]]> By: Lynn http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14358 Lynn Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:39:30 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14358 I finally read "Moby Dick" over the holidays, and it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. "k" is absolutely right: I laughed out loud at the hilarity in the book's beginning. And what added to the fun was coming across dialogue that was used in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." I finally read “Moby Dick” over the holidays, and it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. “k” is absolutely right: I laughed out loud at the hilarity in the book’s beginning. And what added to the fun was coming across dialogue that was used in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”

]]> By: Resolved - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14305 Resolved - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:45:34 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14305 [...] and bookish observations, but in the meantime we’ve been surfing through various reading resolutions for the New Year, and we wonder if you’d care to suggest any of your own. Forget “Moby-Dick,” [...] [...] and bookish observations, but in the meantime we’ve been surfing through various reading resolutions for the New Year, and we wonder if you’d care to suggest any of your own. Forget “Moby-Dick,” [...]

]]> By: k http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14296 k Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:48:49 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14296 Herodotus's Histories is such an epic and fascinating and essential and old book that you'd get pre-A.D. out of the way as well. Herodotus’s Histories is such an epic and fascinating and essential and old book that you’d get pre-A.D. out of the way as well.

]]> By: k http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14295 k Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:46:39 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14295 No one tells you Moby Dick is funny, but it is. At least in the first part. War and Peace is a brick of a book, but a worthy one. Both would be great choices. If you haven't read Don Quixote, that's the best, the novel king of the world. No one tells you Moby Dick is funny, but it is. At least in the first part. War and Peace is a brick of a book, but a worthy one. Both would be great choices. If you haven’t read Don Quixote, that’s the best, the novel king of the world.

]]> By: Erin http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14294 Erin Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:25:01 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14294 Oddly, I tend to go for the big heavy mountainous books first. My mother says I "enjoy a weighty tome." Like 2009 got me thru a giant FDR biography and The Brothers Karamazov, for example. Also, Neil Gabler's great bio of Walt Disney. The first resolution is to take a big bite out of all the books I already have that I haven't gotten to yet, also to read the books this guy at work is always loaning me (a book about Woody Allen's films, a George Carlin anthology, and Invisible History -that intimidating book about Afghanistan). And I suppose the other goal is to read the stacks of smaller, thinner tomes. I think I put them off because I figure I should read the big hard stuff first. Not that a small book can't be hard. On that note, I should finally finish Crying of Lot 49 for pete's sake. Oddly, I tend to go for the big heavy mountainous books first. My mother says I “enjoy a weighty tome.” Like 2009 got me thru a giant FDR biography and The Brothers Karamazov, for example. Also, Neil Gabler’s great bio of Walt Disney. The first resolution is to take a big bite out of all the books I already have that I haven’t gotten to yet, also to read the books this guy at work is always loaning me (a book about Woody Allen’s films, a George Carlin anthology, and Invisible History -that intimidating book about Afghanistan). And I suppose the other goal is to read the stacks of smaller, thinner tomes. I think I put them off because I figure I should read the big hard stuff first. Not that a small book can’t be hard. On that note, I should finally finish Crying of Lot 49 for pete’s sake.

]]> By: Alanna http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14292 Alanna Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:01:43 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14292 I, too, keep a list of what I read. My resolution this year is to beat last year's number (which is always my goal). I'm hoping to add classics to my list as well, so I will look forward to everyone's recommendations on those. I, too, keep a list of what I read. My resolution this year is to beat last year’s number (which is always my goal). I’m hoping to add classics to my list as well, so I will look forward to everyone’s recommendations on those.

]]> By: Anne http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14254 Anne Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:48:20 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14254 This year my friend Lisa and I are confronting our "books of shame" -- the books we should have read by now but haven't. She's going to read LITTLE WOMEN and I will finally tackle PRIDE & PREJUDICE. I should probably read MOBY-DICK as well, but that may have to wait for 2011. For the last 5 years I've kept a list of everything I've read. I mark the books I most enjoyed with an asterisk, but I don't make any other notes on them. Too bad -- sometimes I look back at those titles and have no idea what the books are about. This year my friend Lisa and I are confronting our “books of shame” — the books we should have read by now but haven’t. She’s going to read LITTLE WOMEN and I will finally tackle PRIDE & PREJUDICE. I should probably read MOBY-DICK as well, but that may have to wait for 2011.

For the last 5 years I’ve kept a list of everything I’ve read. I mark the books I most enjoyed with an asterisk, but I don’t make any other notes on them. Too bad — sometimes I look back at those titles and have no idea what the books are about.

]]> By: Sarah McCoy http://blog.vromans.com/new-years-resolutions-will-you-change-how-you-read/comment-page-1#comment-14249 Sarah McCoy Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:56:24 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=1185#comment-14249 Hi Patrick, It seems we both had New Year's resolutions on the brain today: www.sarahmccoy.wordpress.com. In response to your post re: reading resolutions pre-1900. Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING is clutch and just makes the cut with an 1899 publication date. Spin the Charles Dickens wheel and take your pick. I'm partial to TALE OF TWO CITIES. Lewis Carroll's Alice never disappoints. Dumas if you're in a swashbuckling mood. MADAME BOVARY if you're feeling saucy. Then of course there's Victor Hugo, Henry James, Jules Verne, and Jane Austen ... oo, what about Mark Twain? Well shoot, now you've got me in the spirit. I think I may pick up Anna Sewall's BLACK BEAUTY. I've always wanted to read it and never have. Also, I love the idea of keeping a reading journal. I don't know why it never occurred to me to do that before. Great idea! Happy 2010 reading to you. Yours truly, Sarah Hi Patrick,
It seems we both had New Year’s resolutions on the brain today: http://www.sarahmccoy.wordpress.com.

In response to your post re: reading resolutions pre-1900. Kate Chopin’s THE AWAKENING is clutch and just makes the cut with an 1899 publication date. Spin the Charles Dickens wheel and take your pick. I’m partial to TALE OF TWO CITIES. Lewis Carroll’s Alice never disappoints. Dumas if you’re in a swashbuckling mood. MADAME BOVARY if you’re feeling saucy. Then of course there’s Victor Hugo, Henry James, Jules Verne, and Jane Austen … oo, what about Mark Twain? Well shoot, now you’ve got me in the spirit. I think I may pick up Anna Sewall’s BLACK BEAUTY. I’ve always wanted to read it and never have.

Also, I love the idea of keeping a reading journal. I don’t know why it never occurred to me to do that before. Great idea! Happy 2010 reading to you.

Yours truly, Sarah

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