Happy New Year!

Well, okay. So that whole plan of starting during the Christmas season was clearly a fail. I'm not sure what I was thinking. But! The original plan was to start on New Year's Day, so that is what I am doing! Pickwick, here I come!

A COMMENT!

I'd just like to thank Rachel for leaving the very first comment on this blog. Awww! I'm so excited!

The Basics

Who: Me. Kate. Age 27. Former literature major. Current taxonomist and search specialist. Writer. Knitter.

What: I'm going to read all those things I feel like I should have read, an author at a time. I'll read all of the author's major works and at least one piece of criticism. And, of course, I'll blog my progress here.

When: Starting January 1, 2010.

Where: Right here. Also on Twitter.

Why: Oh, lots of reasons. I like projects. I miss homework. I apparently need to make myself as busy as possible. But seriously, it's because I feel like when I tell people that I have a degree in literature, they expect me to have read all sorts of stuff that, for some reason, I did not in fact need to read to get said degree. And I want to read all these things, these classics, these big-name books. Really I do. But I need something to keep me going. So that's where you come in! I'm hoping that by blogging about these books as I read, I'll keep motivated.

Potential Future Selections

Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anton Chekhov
Charles Dickens
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Irving
Herman Melville
Toni Morrison
Edgar Allen Poe
Philip Roth
William Shakespeare
John Steinbeck
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Trollope
John Updike
Edith Wharton