That reading list of mine…

… I just shake my head. It fell off the wagon a while ago. It was (and still is!) a daunting task to cut it down to a manageable size.

My original plan was to try to make it short enough that it would be conceivable for me to read everything on it in a 12-month period. I can see now that that is quite simply not going to happen. Too many books, too many authors, too many genres interest me. Of course, I could always change the parameters, and make it about a particular subset of books (books I should have read in high school but didn’t, for example).

Instead, I’m going do a final cut and post the whole shebang asap. Sure, it’s 600+ items. But if I never post it, it will never get read. I don’t usually go in for the New Year’s resolution (too easy to make and break, and never really had anything particular to resolve that I thought I could/would actually stick with for a year or more), but I think (assuming I can take some of the days I have off over the holidays to get the list in order) that 2012 will be the “Reading List Resolution” year.

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