For whatever reason, the new year gets me to thinking about books that I'd like to read. W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage has been on my to-restart-and-finish-reading list for nearly fifteen years. My first love, a college boyfriend, was a writer and an avid reader. He's the reason I read and have since been affected by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. He's also the one that introduced me to Maugham. Maybe this will be the year that I [restart and] finish it. I've also been meaning to read Rob Walker's Buying In for about five years. My BFA thesis work centered around the concept of how we are defined by what we buy or rather that what we buy defines who we are. This year, I would really like to delve deeper into this idea and somehow visualize the concept.
Labels: Reading, Resolution
