Thursday, November 17, 2011

Books & My Poor Reading Habits.

Okay...I need some opinions.

did anyone read my blog about books and reading and such? (Day 3 I believe. Go read it) Does anyone remember that quote I shared by C. S. Lewis about reading an old book before I start a new one? I've been thinking about it...and I'm not sure if he was talking about a book I had read before or just an older book that was written a lot earlier than books like Twilight (bleh DX) and things like that.

I have a long list of books to read. and I really, really, really want to get out of my bad habit of picking up a book, starting the first page, setting down the book, and not read it again until a very long time. but I still want to go by Lewis' rule. I'm just not sure where to start.

Here's some books, I have NOT read, yet I want to read:

Surprised By Joy (C. S. Lewis) (1955)
The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) (1937)


Here are some books I've considered to read again, but don't have any interest in reading right now:

Till We Have Faces (C. S. Lewis) (1956)
A Greif Observed (C. S. Lewis) (1961)
The Princess and The Goblin (George MacDonald) (1872)
The Princess and Curdie (George MacDonald (1883)
The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis) (1945)
The Orphaned Anything's (Stephen Christian) (2008) (Couldn't read this one if I wanted because I let someone borrow it and they have not returned it.) :( I want my book back.

Books I've started and I need to finish. (The ones I really want to read and haven't yet are in this list as well.)

Surprised By Joy (C. S. Lewis) (1955)
The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) (1937)
Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) (2009)
Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The Capture (Kathryn Lasky) (2003)
At The Back of The North Wind (George MacDonald) (1871)
Phantastes (George MacDonald) (1858) (this one I am almost done with. But I think I'd need to restart it to refresh my memory.)
The Light Princess & Other Fantasy Stories (George MacDonald) (1864) (probably some other years because it has a series of other stories in it. At least the book I have does)

In any case, please let me know your opinions, whether it be through a Facebook message or comment or here in the blog comments. Please, do let me know. It would help out A LOT.

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