So this year I have two major resolutions. The first is to read one book every week, for a total of 52 books by the end of the year. I was inspired by a similar, but more challenging resolution made by a close friend of mine: to read 100 books by the end of the year. 52 is not 100, but it is still a respectable number. So far, I have been staying on schedule, and I am currently reading book number #5 (although I have experimented by reading sections of other books). Here's my completed list so far, with accompanying reviews (5 words maximum).
1) Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: Beautiful but bleak, enjoyable, and troubling.
2) Pastoralia by George Saunders: Poignant, bursting with rhetorical questions.
3) Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders: Funnier than Pastoralia, strangely sadder.
4) Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger: Insightful, lots of cigarettes.
I feel exceptionally proud that I was able to shave an extra word down on that last review.
Here is a photograph I took of the Flagler Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, Florida:
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