Plans and Hope for 2016 for The Reading Life

I hope this year to complete my read through of the 91 elements in Honore de Balzac's monumental The Human Comedy.  I have read all of the most famous works.  You can tell some of his works were written at a speed fueled by the caffeine in a dozen Red Bulls but every work has at least a few wonderful descriptions.  I have twenty works still waiting to be read.  Serious autodidacts should consider this project.

I hope to reread Proust, starting with Wayne Carter's revision of the first two volumes of the translation of C. K. Scott Moncireff.  I also hope to read Moncireff's translations of Stendhal's The Red and the Black and The Charter House of Parma.  

I have seven anthologies of Indian short stories containing at least seventy five short stories by highly re

regarded  writers I have not yet read and hope to post on many of them this year.  

I am increasingly fascinated by the extreme cultural depth of writers from the old Austro Hungarian Empire.  For sure I will continue reading more of their work.  As of now I am reading Montaine by Stefan Zweig.  

I will continue my read through of the works of Clarice Lispector, Constance Fenimore Woolson and Iréne Nemirovsky.  

Ok quiz, which one in this family picture is Clarice? 

In March I will revise Irish short story month, a completely marvelous and inexhaustible reading life area.   

January 27 is International Holocaust Remebrance Day and I hope to post, one I have already done, on several Holocaust themed works that week.  I urge all book bloggers world wide to consider observing this day.  The Holocaust was for sure a war on lovers of learning and the reading life.  Throughout the year I will be posting on Holocaust related works.  The attacks in Paris can be directly traced to the Holocaust.

I hope to discover lots of great New to me writers, to read old classics I wish I would have read very long ago.

I will continue reading  nonfiction, more short stories, Yiddish, Japanese literature.

My blog has kept me going during dark times, I urge all book bloggers to continue on in the Holy Game of Book Blogging.  I hope one day now young book bloggers can look back on fifty years of their reading life.

I hope to do more Q and A sessions,  if anything is of lasting value on my blog it is my 100 plus q and A sessions.  I think anyone who took the trouble to read all these sessions would be amazed by the depths of the responses.  

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Ambrosia Boussweau