2017

This Year's Goals

First, some Unfinished Business from last year (sitting on my night stand and being read in extremely short chunks).

1. The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides    COMPLETED
2. The Way of Chuang Tzu / Thomas Merton  COMPLETED
3. The Second Book of the Tao / Stephen Mitchell COMPLETED
4. The Essential Zohar    Abandoned for now
5. A Guide to the Zohar / Arthur Green   Abandoned for now
6. The Zohar, Vol 1 / translated by Harry Sperling  INTERMITTENTLY BROWSING

I. The Loose Canon (UTNE Reader)

1. Mahabharata   READING
2. I Am That / Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj  READING
3. Meditations / Marcus Aurelius  READING
4. The Golden Ass / Lucius Apuleius COMPLETED
5. Scivias / Hildegarde of Bingen  Started, on HOLD
6. The Gnostic Gospels / Elaine Pagels  COMPLETED

II. A Lifetime's Reading

1. Selected Poems / Ondra Lysohorsky
2. Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu Started, on HOLD
3. Romeo and Juliet / Shakespeare  COMPLETED
4. Hamlet / Shakespeare   COMPLETED
5. All's Well That Ends Well / Shakespeare  COMPLETED
6. Troilus and Cressida / Shakespeare   COMPLETED
7. Othello / Shakespeare  COMPLETED
8. Measure for Measure / Shakespeare  COMPLETED
9. King Lear / Shakespeare  COMPLETED
10. Macbeth / Shakespeare  COMPLETED
11. Antony and Cleopatra / Shakespeare
12. Coriolanus / Shakespeare
13. Timon of Athens / Shakespeare READING
14. Pericles, Prince of Tyre / Shakespeare
15. Letters / Vincent Van Gogh READING
16. The Poem Itself / Stanley Burnshaw  READING
17. Letters to Olga / Vaclav Havel  READING
18. Continue with ART:1800 project:  John Singleton Copley; Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun;

III. Books suggested by Daniel Alarcon in My Ideal Bookshelf

1. Detectives Salvajes / Roberto Bolaño  Started, on HOLD
2. 2666 / Roberto Bolaño   Started, on HOLD
3. Nowhere Man / Aleksandar Hemon   COMPLETED
4. Flight Without End / Joseph Roth   COMPLETED
5. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski  COMPLETED
6. Ours / Sergei Dovlatov  COMPLETED
7. The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat / Ryszard Kapuściński  COMPLETED
8. Chekhov / Viking Portable Library  READING

 IV. Books suggested by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in My Ideal Bookshelf

1. The Dark Child / Camara Laye COMPLETED
2. Middlemarch / George Eliot   READING ON MY CELL PHONE

IV. Books suggested by The Boston Public Library's 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century

1. The Interpretation of Dreams / Sigmund Freud    Started, on HOLD
2. The Golden Bough / James Frazer   Started, on HOLD

V. Books Suggested by/inspired by various editions of the Whole Earth Catalog

1. I Ching   INTERMITTENTLY BROWSING
2. The Sword in the Stone / T. H. White (being read to my children at night)  on HOLD
3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind / Shunryu Suzuki COMPLETED
4. C. G. Jung: Images and Words / Aniela Jaffe COMPLETED
5. Zen Buddhism / D. T. Suzuki   READING
6. The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell  READING

VII. Books encountered Randomly

1. A Philosophy of Walking / Frederic Gros    Abandoned for now
2. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior / Chogyam Trungpa Started, on HOLD
3. Quest for the Grail / Richard Rohr COMPLETED
4. Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes / Paul Strathern  COMPLETED
5. God is not Great / Christopher Hitchens   Started, on HOLD
6. The Rage Against God / Hitchens Started, on HOLD
7. The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen, ed./trans. Thomas Cleary COMPLETED
8. The Seven Story Tower: A Mythic Journey Through Space and Time, Curtis Hoffman Abandoned for now
9. The Thirteen Petalled Rose, Adin Steinsaltz  Abandoned for now
10. The Hero's Journey / Joseph Campbell  Abandoned for now
11. The Hero: Myth/Image/Symbol /  Dorothy Norman Abandoned for now
12. Aegypt (also published as The Solitudes)  / John Crowley COMPLETED
13. Lead Yourself First  /  Raymond Kethledge, Michael Erwin, intro by Jim Collins s  INTERMITTENTLY BROWSING