My Grand Reading Plan for 2015 involves reading more and widely across genres AND finishing the Malazan Book of the Fallen series (I'm currently reading the seventh book). The plan is foolproof this time and (*drum roll*) I've already finished the first book of the GRP 2015.
So what is this Grand Reading Plan? Simply this. I have a comprehensive list of books I own with details of where and when they were bought. So I'm going to read (and possibly re-read) the books each month bought in those months, regardless of the year. Within each list, I'll read female authors and translated works first followed by South Asian authors and finally works by white male authors.
THIS is the mix of books for January and here they are in the order of reading:
- A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch (Finished)
- Victoria - Knut Hamson
- The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
- Ghalib - Pavan K. Varma
- Man-eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
- Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter (re-read)
- A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby (re-read)
Why re-reads when so many books are gathering dust in the TBR pile? I re-read books a) because I didn't really understand it much the first time, b) for the sheer love of the story or characters or, and most importantly, c) a movie based on the book exists or is being released.
One book down, six more to go. Let the reading begin!
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