My 2024 Reading Plan

[@Yesica1993]

I greatly admire you and everyone else who has an organized plan for their reading year. I'm generally an organized person. You'd think I'd do the same. But life has been chaotic for a long time now and there's no sign of that changing. I don't have the brain space or energy to create/stick to plans of any kind. Watching other people's reading plans scratches the itch for me. Happy reading to you this year. I always appreciate your in depth discussions/reviews.

[@EarnestlyEston]

Thanks for much for the comment! Planned/structured reading is certainly not for everyone. I sometimes wish I were a bit less structured and I have actually tried to loosen up a bit...lol. Happy reading to you as well this year!

[@Eldertalk]

Interesting collection of books - you have a lot of possibilities for 2024. Nice to know where your channel is heading in the new year.

[@EarnestlyEston]

Many thanks for the comment and happy reading to you this year!

[@donaldkelly3983]

Your TBR list is very impressive, in amount and variety. I have Buddenbrooks and The Waves on my reading list, so I'd like to hear your take on them. "Red Wind" is the best story in Trouble is My Business. Try O'Connor and Maugham's short stories, they are well written and never boring. I suggest Grant's Personal Memoirs. It's the only presidential autobiography that reads like an intelligent man wrote it..by himself!

[@EarnestlyEston]

I actually think you might have been the viewer who recommended Trouble is My Business to me. I'm looking forward to reading it. I don't read a lot of short stories so I'm thinking I'll choose that for my Maugham this year. Grant's Memoirs are a fantastic suggestion! I read a biography of Grant a couple of years ago in which the memoirs were mentioned. He died very shortly after completing them and they were published by Mark Twain! I will rethink the Jackson biography and may do the memoirs instead. I hope we both enjoy Buddenbrooks and The Waves!

[@TaraAmrit]

Wow - amazing list!

[@EarnestlyEston]

Thanks!

[@Nuance88]

The Waves by Virginia Woolf is a truly singular work. I highly recommend carving out some time and personal space, perhaps space out in nature somewhere, to read that book. It's one of the few books I felt compelled to read in a single sitting, and it's remained one of the highlights of my reading life. You're lucky to have that experience ahead of you. One thing to note: it's starkly different from To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, far more poetic in form and style. If that difference feels like too far a stretch, I found her book Orlando to be a nice transition.

[@EarnestlyEston]

Thanks for the comment. If it's more poetic than To The Lighthouse it must be very poetic indeed! I actually thought about choosing Orlando and I might get to that one as well this year, if there is time. Thanks again!