Reading dekalog
There shouldn't be too much in the mix at a time, so here i'd like to list off what i'm daily reading and it must not be more than 10 categories
1. Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle - there's less than 5 hours left in the first volume, if i just read that, i could finish it tonight, but variety might win out. When this whole 7 volume work is done, this category will relinquish to #4
2. Holderlin - there's 3 volumes to be gone through together here, the Zweig who focuses on him on the first part of his Struggle With the Daemon, and the 2 Penguin Classics volumes. Hyperion will be gone through after all those. Last night i was tempted by Holderlin's The Death of Empedocles, but it's pricey, maybe that'll be a reward after a significant amount of time of putting my words into action. Grouped in here are the other classic Germanic guys Goethe, Schiller, Heine, and Nietzsche, along with Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer, all of which i love to dip into frequently.
3. The other poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Dickinson
4. Thomas Bernhard - The Voice Imitator - which is a collection of really short pieces and Gathering Evidence and that is his autobiography which he gave up writing at some point because it was boring. I was doing his first poetry collection too, but will hold off, because that will cause me to want one of those pre-orders again, so i am limiting my Bernhard strictly to prose works. Will be working my way chronologically through his novels after the aforementioned works are done and i have less on the plate. This part will alternate with those other works like Gravity's Rainbow, Ullysses, the modern and post modern classics for what some might call snobs.
5. Don Quixote - at least a chapter a day. Then more classics
6. Montaigne and the french moralists ..... combined with the ancients
7. Anais Nin - her diaries and maybe also the artistic fiction like Cities of the Interior, NOT Delta of Venus and that kind of thing.
8. In Search of Lost Time - this is an endless read, when i'm done, i'll just start all over again and keep going till well you know
9. Christian sources, i am pleased to say that pretty much all the high points of the largest religion is on the kindle, we got the early church fathers, one of the largest eBooks i have, then Thomas Aquinas, the trinity of mystics - Eckhart, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, then for the Reformation Luther and Calvin, plus Owen and Edwards, and for contemporary if we was a few decades back Chesterton and CS Lewis.
10. Quick easy breezy novels or works, currently on Jim Thompson's The Grifters, more like this can be handled by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, also for this could be thriller and horror books.
1. Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle - there's less than 5 hours left in the first volume, if i just read that, i could finish it tonight, but variety might win out. When this whole 7 volume work is done, this category will relinquish to #4
2. Holderlin - there's 3 volumes to be gone through together here, the Zweig who focuses on him on the first part of his Struggle With the Daemon, and the 2 Penguin Classics volumes. Hyperion will be gone through after all those. Last night i was tempted by Holderlin's The Death of Empedocles, but it's pricey, maybe that'll be a reward after a significant amount of time of putting my words into action. Grouped in here are the other classic Germanic guys Goethe, Schiller, Heine, and Nietzsche, along with Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer, all of which i love to dip into frequently.
3. The other poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and Dickinson
4. Thomas Bernhard - The Voice Imitator - which is a collection of really short pieces and Gathering Evidence and that is his autobiography which he gave up writing at some point because it was boring. I was doing his first poetry collection too, but will hold off, because that will cause me to want one of those pre-orders again, so i am limiting my Bernhard strictly to prose works. Will be working my way chronologically through his novels after the aforementioned works are done and i have less on the plate. This part will alternate with those other works like Gravity's Rainbow, Ullysses, the modern and post modern classics for what some might call snobs.
5. Don Quixote - at least a chapter a day. Then more classics
6. Montaigne and the french moralists ..... combined with the ancients
7. Anais Nin - her diaries and maybe also the artistic fiction like Cities of the Interior, NOT Delta of Venus and that kind of thing.
8. In Search of Lost Time - this is an endless read, when i'm done, i'll just start all over again and keep going till well you know
9. Christian sources, i am pleased to say that pretty much all the high points of the largest religion is on the kindle, we got the early church fathers, one of the largest eBooks i have, then Thomas Aquinas, the trinity of mystics - Eckhart, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, then for the Reformation Luther and Calvin, plus Owen and Edwards, and for contemporary if we was a few decades back Chesterton and CS Lewis.
10. Quick easy breezy novels or works, currently on Jim Thompson's The Grifters, more like this can be handled by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, also for this could be thriller and horror books.
