What are you planning to read in 2015?

What promises will we break next year? 2014 for ref: What are you planning to read in 2014?

For me its finishing bits & pieces of German Lit I was reading lots of last year. Josef Winkler's When the Time Comes and Novalis' The Novices of Sais.

Having read The Naples books from Elena Ferrante I want to read more books with a female character at its centre. There is one line about this in the third Naples book, couldn't decide whether this was mocking Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary but I possibly should pick these up. Certainly Flaubert. Elsewhere I want to give Dostoevsky another go, going to pick on The Devils, and if I find a nice copy De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom then that. Only other French thing I want is Nerval and finally get round to Goncourt journals.

Finally parts of Anatomy of Melancholy and the first vol of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, depends on whether I find a copy of the latter. Fuck an abridged.

Want to investigate old English translations: sorta started caring about Florio, Chapman, Golding's Metamorphoses, North's Plutarch. Sounds like more trouble than its worth? I blame Ezra Pound.

On the poetry front: Yeats, Paz, Tsvetaeva, Ines de la Cruz, Louise Labé.

I've been enjoying reading social-cultural anthropology. I have Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific coming up. I'd like to dig back into the 19th century, maybe read Frazer abridged. Maybe Kant's lectures.

A few philosophy books. I want to read The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson.

I want to read some stuff about early cinema. This series look pretty good:

http://www.amazon.com/Evenings-Entertainment-Feature-1915-1928-American/dp/0520085353

Imma read imma read imma read:

"90's Island" by Marty Beckerman
"Cranky" by Lynda Barry
some David Foster Wallace essays
some Munro shorts
"Life and Death of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs
"Inside Pee-Wee's Playhouse" by Caseen Gaines

"Asterios Polyp" by David Mazzucchelli"

i am thinking i hafta/wanna read SLOTERDIJK

The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère
There Is Power in a Union, Philip Dray
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick (or at least I'll thumb through it)
Black Reconstruction in America, W.E.B. Du Bois

Moby-Dick
A Sentimental Education
The Brothers Karamazov

you know, it's now or never

Your first & third selections and my sentiments exactly, Morbius. Also a big ol' Tolstoy collection at my local library, Wolf In White Van, Kafka On The Shore, Kafka's Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor's too, xtreme Henry James.

The new Robert Wyatt bio.
Several things I've had lying around for ages.
Master &Margarita unless I get through it by end 2014.

should really finish the last 300 pages of against the day. must be 3 years since i put it down now.

that's the part with all the menage-ing innit

Taking a sociological stance, Andreas Dorschel sees Sloterdijk's timely innovation at the beginning of the 21st century in having introduced the principles of celebrity into philosophy.[6] Sloterdijk himself, viewing exaggeration to be required in order to catch attention, describes the way he presents his ideas as "hyperbolic" (hyperbolisch).[7]

Shortly after Sloterdijk conducted a symposium on philosophy and Heidegger, he stirred up controversy with his essay Regeln für den Menschenpark (Rules for the Human Park).[10] In this text, Sloterdijk regards cultures and civilizations as "anthropogenic hothouses," installations for the cultivation of human beings; just as we have established wildlife preserves to protect certain animal species, so too ought we to adopt more deliberate policies to ensure the survival of Aristotle's zoon politikon.

This makes me nervous. Is he supposed to be good?

i really don't know. he's kind of a goofball provocateur? i would like to read his recent books too because philosophy-as-a-way-of-life, but i was referring to 'critique of cynical reason'. (which i had seen around in used stores for like ever but was never ever tempted to buy, which says something.) so far it seems kinda… too ok with flabby writing in questionable taste, the way that 'theory' authors tend to be (though he was writing as a post-frankfurt school intervention of sorts). but there is some rationale for that in the text, and he can turn a pretty good phrase regularly. also, there's not much written about cynicism, so.

That is more or less my impression of Sloterdijk (I tire of the Nietzschean pose very quickly), but I haven't read enough to feel secure in that judgment--I think the Spheres trilogy is supposed to represent his most sustained work?

I don't have many set reading plans for 2015, and for various practical reasons my reading practices are likely to be less manic than they were this year, but I'd like to read Elena Ferrante's Naples novels, more of Ingeborg Bachmann, more of Ann Quin, and get around to reading Sybil Lamb and Ryka Aoki's recent novels (I've Got a Time Bomb and He Mele a Hilo - A Hilo Song, respectively); I'd also like to finally get started on The Man Without Qualities.

http://www.themillions.com/2015/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2015-book-preview.html

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

TW: short fictions, disturbances

I've stockpiled a ton of cheap used books that I haven't read yet, all of which piqué my curiosity. No doubt I'll read at least 1/3 of them. Maybe 1/2. I wish I had a deeper pool of non-fiction to draw on, though. I have plenty of histories on the shelf, but very little else in the way of non-fic.

might finish all the books i told people i read but actually read half of or skimmed last year

I will read some Philip Roth this year

and some more Pynchon if possible

Austen bio stuff. I hope. And letters. What's the definitive Austen biography? Does it exist?

xxp what roth u thinking abt?

i v recently read 'my life as a man' and am currently reading 'operation shylock' - would rec both, shylock is def a step diff than most of his oeuvre

ive never read any of his books before so i dont know really. one of the more well known ones perhaps - portnoys complaint, american pastoral. im open to suggestions.

american pastoral is a great one, and prob a good 1 to start w/

That is more or less my impression of Sloterdijk (I tire of the Nietzschean pose very quickly), but I haven't read enough to feel secure in that judgment--I think the Spheres trilogy is supposed to represent his most sustained work?

actually 'critique' is turning out to be pretty damn sharp so far, 60 pages in. and reliably hilarious.

This is my 2015 reading list halfway thru the year. never kept a list before as the year went on but i thought to compare to what I was thinking at the beginning and to my surprise actually I am sorta following it: De Sade, Winkler and Nerval.

Basically I've spent lotsa time reading female modern writers. Biggest score was Ginzburg and Lispector, Hilda Hilst is a heck of a voice, read more from Rhys, Spark, Highsmith. Revisited Woolf and Duras. etc. etc.

Kurt Tucholsky - Castle Grispholm: A Summer Story
Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight
Elsa Morante - Arturo's Island
Wolfgang Borchett - A Man Outside (Play)
Josef Winkler - Natura Morta
Michele Bernstein - The Night
Clarice Lispector - Agua Viva
Gerard de Nerval - Selected Writings
Joan Mellen - In the Realm of the senses
Clarice Lispector - The Passion According to G.H
Pushkin - The Captain's Daughter
Clarice Lispector - Breath of Life
Paul Valery - Monsieur Teste
Muriel Spark - Memento Mori
Rene Daumal - A Night of Serious Drinking

Margerite Duras - The Rapture of Lol V. Stein
Natalia Ginzburg - Valentino and Sagittarius
Muriel Spark - Ballad of Peckham Rye
Nadine Gordimer - Burger's Daughter
Herman Melville - The Confidence Man
Patricia Highsmith - Little Tales of Misogyny
Margerite Duras - Emily L.
Natalia Ginzburg - Little Virtues
Natalia Ginzburg - Family Sayings
Frank Wedekind - The Lulu Plays
Natalia Ginzburg - Voices in the Evening
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Marlen Haushofer - The Wall
Assia Djebar - Seven Stories*

Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
Victor Serge - Midnight in the Century
Virginia Woolf - Street Haunting and Other Essays
Marguerite Yourcenar - Mishima: A Vision of the Void
Roberto Bolano - Between Parnthesis: Essays, Articles and Speeches 1998-2003
Hilda Hilst - With my Dog's Eyes (novella)
Joseph Roth - Perlefter
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Normance
Halldor Laxness - Independent People*
Enrique Villa-Matas - Bartleby & Co.
Joseph Roth - Flight Without End
Alejandro Zambra - Ways of Going Home
Jung - Flying Saucers
Leskov - Selected Tales
Marquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom

Tanizaki - The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother
The Existential Imagination - From de Sade to Sartre
Ingeborg Bachmann - Three Paths to the Lake
Juan Jose Saer - La Grande
All Dogs are Blue - Rodrigo De Souza Leao

* Didn't finish

Poetry:

Wallace Stevens - Selected
Nazim Hikmet - Selected
Nicanor Parra - Poems and Anti-poems
Yannis Ritsos - Diaries of Exile
Cavafy - Complete
Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil
Apollinaire - Selected
Rovert Lowell - Selected
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Roberto Bolano - Romantic Dogs
Francois Villon - Selected
Dante - Inferno (tr. Steve Ellis)
Gunter Grass - Selected
Rimbaud - Complete

Not trying to see that

I'm making a concerted effort to get the Highsmiths I haven't yet read: there are 4 novels and a couple of shorts collections I've never seen in a bookshop, but Virago seems to be republishing them in January in the UK.

Day of the Peacock book on men's fashion between 63 & 73 which should arrive this week.

Every book I've bought this year. Be pretty ambitious i've bought quite a lot. Especially need to get through the Wolf Halls.
Don't think I've done too badly in the amount of books read so far. Probably more than the average person in the street I'd guess?
But stilk not Master & Margarita which was in my initial post. & speed of purchase far outstrips speed of reading. But can't resist an interesting looking charity shop find.