Going over the existing 2014 booklist.

(...It's not even remotely style related, but more a teensy-weensy insight into my trying to be organised by creating and keep track of my leisure reading [the folks at Goodreads must be giving themselves nosebleeds as i actually have an account with them])

Okay so i have a confession that may sound a bit silly but this is my space to vent so deal with it. Dominick Dunne is higher placed on my 2014 To-Reads than William Thackeray*. I dont know if i've been concussed by a large metal object within the last few days or just had a complete change of persona, but this is so unlike me, for the significant reason that when it comes to reading, nothing has ever been quite as important to me as the classics, until now it seems. The only explanation I can think of is my recent addiction to watching episodes of Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice, which is basically just Gossip Girl but portraying actual events, and alas okay because it's not reality shows. Anyway it's just something that I use during a certain period of my down time to kick back and chill out, like an enjoyable escape. I guess we can safely say that it's seeped into my reading list as well.

I dont feel like ive had too bad a start into the list and ive enjoyed everything i've read so far. It feels like an ambitious number to get through though considering i couldn't get through last years... meh, nobody get's anywhere without ambition i suppose. Even though i enjoy the downtime from everything Mr. Dunne-related, reading through the major classic novels is the main goal in my Cultivate-the-f*#k-outta-myself quest, so i guess that has to take priority.

God i should just manage to be happy with myself for keeping off reality trash tv

*For those of you unfamiliar with either of those authors, Dominick Dunne was an investigative journalist focused on the powerplay in the United States between the High Society and the legal system. William Makepeace Thackeray meanwhile created literary works mostly satirizing 19th century British society.

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