Happy anniversary, Salon! You're officially one year young, and it's time to celebrate. Forget the traditional party hats, and noisemakers, dearie. You are a true New Year's baby, and you get a different sort of gift: resolutions, ambitions, and (best of all) a new reading list! Hmm... and cake is always allowed. It is a party after all.
One brief amendment: a shorter list. It would seem that we, your humble and neophyte parents, mere little women, had great expectations for you this past year. We are a confederacy of dunces! We forgot that you were in the age of innocence with a heart so white and fresh from the ghost road of the underworld. You were a mere infant, a stranger in a strange land, and new to the rites of passage on the road of life. Well here's to the hours past, and to the years to come. We are ready to take possession of ourselves and amend our love's work (if not now, when?) and shorten our book list from two books every month to one. One book will be mandatory and SHALL be read (the punishment is banishment to the jungle, nay the inferno where angels fear to tread). Thus it is written, thus it is law.
Let us now return to our party going, our cakes and ale. We have reached the end of the affair.
Farewell my lovely,
Casey & Amy, proud parents of The Salon.
P.S. Can you find the 22 book titles hidden in the previous paragraph?? :)
Now for the book list...
The following literary works SHALL be read as organized by month in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Nine A.D.
Thus concludes the listing of the books of 2009.
You're Welcome.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reading List for 2009
January: "It's Time to Try Something New (Again)" Month
Book: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
February: "Women's Historical Fiction" Month
Book: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
March: "Personal Icon" Month (Biography/Autobiography)
Book: Choose your own. Amy, for example, is reading Me by Katherine Hepburn
April: "Big Names, Lesser Known Works" Month
Book: Sanditon and Lady Susan by Jane Austen
May: "Music Appreciation" Month (Nonfiction)
Book: You Choose. For example, Casey is reading The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
June: "English Is Not My Native Language" Month
Book: The Lonely Hearts Club by Raul Nunez
July: "Southern Charm" Month
Book: Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty compared with The Color Purple by Alice Walker
(A rare exception to the one book rule)
August: "I love to laugh" Month (Nonfiction)
Book: Some kind of humorous nonfiction a la Chelsea Handler or John Hodgman
September: "Bestsellers" Month
Book: TBA. Will be decided once the years bestsellers are known. We aren't clairvoyant, wish as we may.
October: "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" Month (Nonfiction)
Book: How to Pick a Peach by Russ Parsons
November: "The Future's Lookin' Bleak (a.k.a. Dystopian)" Month
Book: The Island by Aldous Huxley
December: "Merry Christmas to You!" Month
Book: Buy what you want and read yourself happy into 2010! :)
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4 comments:
I like the themes this year. I hope to be a more contributing force in the book club this year than in past years. We'll see how I do.
I'm so excited - I just decided what book I'm reading for the music nonfiction month! It's called Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta.
Just wanted to let y'all know. lol
Ooh, I like your choice! Yay for the book club. Wanna celebrate the anniversary this weekend?
we should celebrate it this weekend. what could we do to honor the book club/ salon??? maybe we should make a post about it.
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