New year, new books

As 2011 slowly crawls into being, I'm beginning an ambitious reading list. In addition to my ongoing goal to read all of the "important" books I should have read as an English major, I've recently decided to take on all the unread books that I own. Having realized that I may have been overzealous and bought books faster than I could read them, I am aware that I presently own more unread than read books. Or started, but not finished. I'm basically a horrible person.


So, goodbye 2010 books eaten list:

• Sarah - Of Lines and Fragments by Julie Carr (poetry)
  
• Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (poetry)
  
• i was the jukebox by Sandra Beasley (poetry)
  
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (poetry)
  
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Stein & Kim (non-fiction)
  
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (non-fiction)
  
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (short stories)
  

(I made bold the ones I highly recommend.)

Starting off the new list is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I started reading this book in junior year of high school. I liked it, but never finished it. I made it to page 125, apparently, as that was the page with the corner folded down. I'm happy to report that in 3 days I've passed page 125 and I expect to finish it within the week.

Giddy up.