New Year's Literary Resolutions 2012

Here we go again. Last year's resolutions weren't quite as successful as I would've liked.

Though I did finish my first book, entered a writing competition and got a bit more serious about my writing, I hardly wrote a word the last few months of the year.

Bad form, as Captain Hook would say.

So, now that I've moved house and got a bit more room (and an actual chair to sit on when scribbling typing away) I'm hoping to get back into my writing.

I will also do a bit more reading. I read maybe two or three books last year. Ouch. Now that I've been reunited with my to-read books (thanks to my aunt and uncle who brought them to England last month), I will compose a reading list for 2012.

Reading List 2012:

Jane Austen - Emma, Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility.
Georgette Heyer - Arabella, The Black Moth
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
Gail Carriger - Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, Timeless
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
George RR Martin - A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

If I manage to read all of the above books or even exceed my expectations, I will be a very happy camper.

I will also continue work on my own Jane Austen-style regency romance, my steampunk novel and write some poetry.

Reading List 2011

Enough already.

I'm sick of buying new books only to display them on my shelf. I'm sick of starting to read a book and then abandoning it with equal enthusiasm.

What is the point of having a bookshelf full of books if they're only there for decorative purposes?

I've made myself a promise this year: I will not buy any new books before I have read every book on the shelf.

I'm writing this at work so the list below may in incomplete. First draft:

THE LIST OF DOOM:

READ:

Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
The Painted Veil
Masterclass in writing fiction
The art and craft of storytelling
Bridget Jones's Diary

STARTED READING:

Wuthering Heights
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Emma

UNREAD:

Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility - part of my Reading Challenge
Victorian Life
A Journal Of the Plague Year
Ulysses
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Middlemarch
Anne of Green Gables (not yet received)

I'm happy about one thing: that most of my books are still back home so I can't possibly read those (excuses, excuses...).

After that I should move on to my e-reader. That's still chock-full of partially-read books. But that'll come later. Let's start reading! Once I finish one of them, I will write a review.