Hello and Happy New Year to every one! I hope everybody has sobered up up a little bit because it is time to start thinking about what to read this year. If there are any requests for the book list please submit them over the next week or two. I have not assembled the list as yet but I have been tossing some ideas around. As you may have picked up from last year, I do like the epic poems so I will try to work in some more of those. One thing I learned from last year was that the late spring and summer months were twice as challenging for me to read as I had originally thought. Anyone following the blog at the time would remember a huge gap there with an apology about my job afterwards. It turned out that my brain could not handle anything but the lightest fantasy fluff during those busy stressful months and that was if I was reading anything at all. Another very important lesson from last last year was not to put several large similar books back-to-back. Placing The Idiot so close to Jane Eyre was not a good idea, even if I didn't make it that far! What I plan to do this year is to correspond the more challenging books to my lightest work months and possibly have even fewer books. I also plan to more effectively arrange the books so that the reading order will be more comfortable and interesting.
The reason I want any outside requests for the book club early is that I am basing my list entirely on a selection of leather books that I purchased for myself these past few months. I, of course, need to justify my impulse purchases and this is how! The selection will seem very eclectic though, you may rest assured!
I am certain the list will begin with my leather bound edition of Sir Thomas Mallory's La Morte D'Artur.
See you soon!
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