Our Plans and Hopes for The Reading Life in 2020 - The Year of the Rat

Happy New Year to all

With the start of the year of The Rat, 
this seems a good time talk about our hopes and plans for 2020 and beyond.

Reading projects help us keep organized and provides a sense of direction for The Reading Life.  The two first  projects were on Japanese Literature and on Katherine Mansfield.

 These ten year old projects are still very much active.  The newest project is focused on  nonfiction on political revolutions.

Going forward we will be focusing a good bit on Yiddish Literature and related history.  

For a long time Mel has been reading his way through Balzac's La Comedie Humaine.  He has completed 83 of the 91 components. Hopefully this will be completed in 2020.  

We will keep reading along in the short stories of Mavis Gallant with Buried in Print.  This project will finish in September.  Read throughs of short stories by Elizabeth Taylor and Alice Adams are under consideration.

March will once again be Irish Short Story Month.

We hope to expand our reading of short stories from the Indian Subcontinent.  

Mel is always looking for quality literary biographies.

Contemporary Writers followed in the past will be followed into the future.  

In July we hope to focus on works of all sorts set in Paris, in November on German literature.

Mel is open to posting on the work of brand new writers as long as they have a short story online.

Right now there are 155 collections of short stories and about 3050 books on Mel's iPad.  Inspite of this he still gladly receives new books for review consideration.

We are very proud of our readership.  

We offer our great thanks to all who leave comments.

This is the start of the second full decade of The Reading Life.

Ambrosia Bousweau, European Director

Oleander Bousweau, from the Bousweau Foundation

Arfington B. Tachenzard , Design  Consultant