Reading Resolutions 2009: Lauren Elkin

(Lauren Elkin most recently wrote for The Quarterly Conversation on the French artist and writer Claude Cahun.)

See all of TQC's Reading Resolutions here.

First up is Samuel Pepys' diary; later in the year I hope to get to George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, and Flush, Virginia Woolf's book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog.

And on the French front-- I have a growing stack of George Sand that I want to read--Elle et lui, Indiana, her correspondence with Alfred de Musset. Colette: Sido and Le Blé en herbe.

I've been working my way through Balzac's Comédie humaine, and next up are Le Peau de chagrin and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize and L'année terrible

Annie Leclerc, more or less everything she wrote

André Gide's diaries

Some books I bought in 2008 but still haven't gotten to were Will Self's Psychogeography, Olivier Rolin's Un chasseur de lions, & Nancy Huston's book on the imagination, L'Espèce Fabulatrice.

I think Orhan Pamuk has a new novel out this year, is that true? If so I'll look forward to that.

Otherwise-- I look forward to being surprised! I always have the best reading intentions at the beginning of the year, but I generally find the book fates guide me to whatever I'm meant to read at the appropriate moment. And then the list goes out the window . . .