2010 Reading Goals

[sweet_sparrow]

Does anybody have any speficic reading goals for 2010? Big, small, if it's something you're aiming to do, it goes. Or am I just the weird one out? ^-~ (Hope the question doesn't break any rules, but it is book-related.)

I've set myself a few goals this year, though they're not particularly spectacular.

- read Corvus by Esther Woolfson
- read my coursebooks before term starts
- read more non-native English books

Not too many goals and most should be easy to accomplish, but... Well, they might not be. The last is going to be the most problematic. While I'm not a native speaker, I do read solely in English. Most of the books I have/want are, thus, by native speakers of English and I'd love to have a little more variety in my reading. Broaden my horizons and all. I'm not aiming to make a large chunk of my reading English translations, though, just to make that chunk larger than it is at the moment. ^-^

So. Anybody else have reading goals for 2010? ^-^

(Also, hi! I'm new to the community. ^-^ A really short intro of me/my tastes would be: "I read fantasy and I try to stay as far away from horror as I can. I like my night's rest. I'm trying to branch out my reading into other genres a little more. Other than that, I'm a student of English, focusing my courses on - surprise! - literature." Nice to meet you all!)

Comments

[shanaqui]

Oooh, that sounds cool.

Ah, we get to choose whatever we want from what's available, and there's a pretty big range. ♥

The lecturer is amazing. And myth is amazing. Surely that will atone for the modernism?

[sweet_sparrow]

It should be pretty interesting at least. ^-^

I love the courses offered by native-English universities... I looked into enrolling as a foreign student, but I'm afraid the only way I could've afforded it was with two student loans and a job, and our government refuses to give you one if you also get one from the country you're going to, so I didn't get to go. :(

Possibly... Depends on the authors you're reading, I suppose.

[shanaqui]

I bet!

Ugh, that sucks so much. *kicks governments*

I'll have to look that up soon. Before the course starts. Still time to run away screaming. *grin*

[sweet_sparrow]

I was crushed. All I needed was that one 'yes' as answer. It's a pretty lousy trick form the government. They know perfectly well you can't afford studying abroad with just one loan and a job unless your parents' pay-scale is upper class. Heck, you can't even afford studying with a loan and a job here.

You could always try the course and see what you think in a few weeks, surely... Leastwise that's no problem here. The best class I ever had was a movie class. Pretty much every other week the teacher went "If you're sensitive/can't watch tv violence, skip these scenes". He even went "Skip this whole movie" at one point. I think it was Taxi Driver, but I'm not sure.

[shanaqui]

Our student loan companies screw a certain class of people, too, though it's not quite the same. If my parents were divorced, I'd get a higher level of support, but they're not, so because my mum earns over a certain amount, that means I just get the base amount. Which is really irritating, because my mum's money automatically goes to pay debts, and they don't have much to give me.

I've got two weeks to make a decision, I think? I'm probably going to attend most courses, in the first week or two, because we're allowed to attend ones we aren't being examined in, and there are SO MANY I want to do.

[sweet_sparrow]

Ugh. Sounds much like ours. The system is different, but the problems still exist.

Mmm. Then you can choose the ones you think are most interesting after those two weeks and stick with them? That sounds lovely... ^-^

[shanaqui]

Yep, that's pretty much how it works out. I love my university.