Aspirations for the new year

Some ideas/projects/ aspirations/ challenges

• To read Chekhov complete stories
• A Dickens
• A Dostoevsky (not keen on C&P, but who knows, maybe. There's Demons. Or if nothing else, can re-read the Idiot. Quite liked it.)
• To read Nehru's Glimpses of World History (a long time aspiration). And for motivation, read this blog.
• Ulysses before June 16th so that can reread some bits that day. (Big goal this one! I picked it up this year on June 16th, but the bookmark is still somewhere less than a third)
• A Woolf - Either read To The Lighthouse or read the Waves. 
• 3 Shakespeare plays (rereads ok)
• Milton's Paradise Lost. Read slowly again
• And a real challenge is to read all essays by Orwell. At least fifty found here. Not sure how this goes, but at least putting it down here.

General notes:

• To keep a similar pace as this year's
• To keep reading wide - lots of countries, lots of translation
• Poet prose reads - something every now and then.
• Malte Briggs.
• Redress of Poetry or Finders Keepers
• Poem readings, and noting down. Often.

Later, when I had sat with the above for a while. I realise I prefer to keep it simple. Hence:

• Read a lot. Whenever you can. 
• Read slowly.  :)