Reading Plan Update

It's time to check on on my reading plan from last year, and monitor the "progress" I've made. My reading plans are always aspirational--but also as always, my desires outstrip my supply of time. I also allow for detours and spur-of-the-moment sidetracks (to quote Michael Dirda's motto: "Read at whim!").

Here's what I had in store as of October of 2015:

Reading Plan (in alphabetical order by author):

some Beaumont and Fletcher [nope!]
Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything [yes!]
Garner, Bryan, and David Foster Wallace. Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing [nope!]
Gombrich, E.H. A Little History of the World [nope!]
Howlett, Kevin. The Beatles: The BBC Archives [nope!]
James, Henry. The Golden Bowl [nope!]
Knausgaard. My Struggle, books 3-6 [vols. 3-5: yes! Vol. 6 not out yet in English]
some John Le Carré [yes! Russia House and Perfect Spy]
Marias, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 2, 3 [nope!]
Peace, David. The Damned UTD and Red or Dead [yes/nope!]
some Philip Roth [nope!]
Rothfuss, Patrick. The Slow Regard of Silent Things [yes!]
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays  [yes! Some of them, anyway]
some Zadie Smith (White Teeth, N/R, On Beauty, Changing My Mind) [nope!]
Turow, Scott. Personal Injuries [yes!]
Vollmann, William. Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means [nope!]

plus rereads:
Austen, Jane. Sanditon [nope!]
Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler [nope!]
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes stories and novels [nope!]
Gaddis, William. The Recognitions [nope!]
Hemingway, Ernest. Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms [nope!]
Homer. Odyssey (Pope translation) [nope!]
Milton, John. Paradise Lost [nope!]
Nabokov, Vladimir. Laughter in the Dark, The Enchanter, The Gift, Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The Eye [nope!]
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day [nope!]
Shakespeare, William, and John Fletcher. Two Noble Kinsmen [yes, Arden 3rd Series

!]
some Shakespeare from Oxford Original Spelling edition [yes! Two Noble Kinsmen]
Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest [yes!]

Well, as you can see, I managed to read less than half of what I set out to. That's not bad! Of course, I won't be carrying over all the unread books to my new reading plan...I've got other fish to fry.

So, here's my new reading plan for the upcoming year--we'll see how this goes.

Reading Plan (in alphabetical order by author):

first time:
Egil's Saga
Howlett, Kevin. The Beatles: The BBC Archives
Jackson, Holbrook. Anatomy of Bibliomania
Knausgaard. My Struggle, book 6 [when it comes out]
some John Le Carré (starting with Secret Pilgrim)
Manguel, Alberto. Reading Pictures
Marias, Javier. Your Face Tomorrow, vol. 2, 3 (plus reread vol. 1)
Munro, Alice. New Selected Stories
Murakami, Haruki. 1Q94
Shi Nai'An. Outlaws of  the Marsh (transl. Shapiro)
some Zadie Smith (White Teeth, N/R, On Beauty, Changing My Mind) 
Stendhal. Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal. Red and Black

rereads:
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane. Emma
Austen, Jane. Sanditon
Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes stories and novels 
some James Ellroy
Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!
Gaddis, William. The Recognitions 
Hemingway, Ernest. Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms 
Homer. Odyssey (Pope translation)
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
Milton, John. Paradise Lost 
Nabokov, Vladimir. Laughter in the Dark, The Enchanter, The Gift, Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The Eye 
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day
more Shakespeare
Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse