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Blogs by Susan Sonnen
Reading Deliberately 3/23/2010 5:21:49 PM
Reading goals.
Reading Deliberately
I read an article at ReadWritePoem about reading deliberately as a writer. I partook in a challenge last year to read 100 short stories and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, even if I fell a few short, so I am eager to determine a list of various reading materials for this year. I am making a list of long term and short term reading goals. I plan on holding myself accountable here at Musings.
Yearly Reading Goals
a. 24 poetry books
b. 4 books on craft
c. 6 books by Authors Den/Facebook friends
d. 1 book about Chicago
e. 12 children’s books
f. 1 young adult book
g. 100 short stories
h. 1 biography
i. 1 memoir
j. 6 non-fiction books
k. 3 classics
l. 12 novels
Part of me worries that this list is far too slim and part of me worries that is far too large. Time will tell. I do better when I have a plan, so I have high hopes that this list will aid me in being (pardon the cliche) a voracious reader this year.
As there are only eight more days of March, I will begin my monthly lists with April.
April Reading Goals
Dear Everybody by Michael Kimball (c, l)
The Myths and Gods of India by Alain Danielou (j)
India by Michael Wood (j)
Millions of Cats by Wanda Ga’g (e)
12 assorted short stories (g)
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming (i, j)
Emily Dickinson, The Laurel Poetry Series edited by Richard Wilbur (a)
At the end of each month, I will fess up to what I did and did not accomplish. Hopefully, there will be very few “did nots” as well as some extra books/stories added to the list.
I’m excited! I am also thinking that I need to try setting specific writing goals, as well. Those, I have not been terribly successful with in the past. Perhaps if I start out quite small, I will stand a better chance of succeeding. Quite frankly, a small number of monthly poems and stories will be many more than I have managed to produce in the past year. 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