let the list begin

There are a lot of other things on my to-do list other than start a new project, but here I am putting my thoughts into words and punching it all up onto this screen in front of me for the whole world to read. It was meant to be anyway, so I have to go with it.

I was waiting at my library this morning for a meeting and had some time to kill so I went to the nearest bookshelf that I could reach (which is limited to the bottom two shelves) and was looking at different titles and came across this book: "So Many Books, So Little Time" by Sara Nelson. I couldn't help myself, it sounded like something I would say (see my goodreads list) and I picked it up and started reading.

So, basically, I am going to follow in this author's footsteps and go through 52 books in 52 weeks and blog about my journey here. I figure it'll be good writing and thinking exercises. I am looking forward to being finished with this project just because I will be able to go back and see where I've come in just a year and how books really can impact every day living and give such different perspectives and it'll all be recorded in one place!

The first step is to compose (or get it started) my list. I have to leave room for books that just fall into my lap. I am a serial reader (I always have at least three books going) so bear with me. I need to have a few different genres of books going at once so if I need a break from one I can easily switch over to another. It all depends on my mood, how tired I am, and where I am.

I'm starting out with fourteen books on my list and I can just add as the others come along. I've got three of them going right now, so I guess I better start getting more suggestions for books to read (please feel free to leave ideas!). I don't like to read the backs or flaps of books to find out what they're about, I'd rather just pick it up because it has a cool cover or title. Yes, I am one of those and proud of it. Although, I will read a book just because someone recommended it; so tell, tell, tell!

To begin, I thought "Jane Eyre" would be appropriate, I wanted to see the new movie that came out March 11. See how randomly and for seemingly purposeful-less reasons I can choose a book?

Now I have to go and find the book hidden away somewhere on my bookshelf. Good excuse to reorganize my books!!

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by Sara Nelson
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk
My Sister My Love
by Joyce Carol Oates
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
Magical Thinking: True Stories
by Augusten Burroughs
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards
The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert