Solutions to boredom and brain mush in 2011: read all of the books on my ‘Books I want to read in 2011’ list. Books I couldn’t read for the past years because of my degree in English Literature. Isn’t that funny?
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Marcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Marcia Marquez
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Stranger – Albert Camus
Of Human Bondage – Somerset Maugham
Beloved – Toni Morrison
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Lanark – Alistair Gray
Room – Emma Donoghue
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle – Monique Roffey
Other resolutions: watch the films on my ‘Films’ list. Embrace exercise (did it last year, will last until April then peak again July/August). Stop eating shit. Write/talk to absent friends more. Plan to travel to exotic, faraway lands. (Save, book flights, stalk fellow travel-planners. Possibly actually go? Too early to say.)
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