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:
The Painted Veil
Masterclass in writing fiction
The art and craft of storytelling
Bridget Jones's Diary
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.
