Neil Gaiman

What’s the first book you’ve finished or will finish in 2009?

I just finished Paradise Lost, by John Milton, as read by Nadia May.

As far as actual eyes-on-print goes, I’ll probably finished The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit before anything else.

I usually don’t make out much of a reading plan, because books I wasn’t planning on reading tend to find their way to the top of my list. But here are a few I know I’ll be working through in 2009:

• Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis. It’s literally a character flaw in me that I have not read this yet. That will be remedied as soon as I’m done with The Enchanted Castle.
• North! Or Be Eaten, Andrew Peterson. The first book in the series was fantastic, and I’m looking forward to the next with much anticipation.
• Harry Potter’s Bookshelf, John Granger. I’ve been waiting for this one since I knew it was in the works years ago.
• As much of The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge as I can get through.
• The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffery Chaucer.  I loved these stories back in high school, and this is a new, unabridged translation.
• The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin.  This is the third book of the Earthsea cycle, which is tremendous myth-making.
• Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.  Gaiman’s been recommended to me over and over again, and it’s about time I read him.

You?

The My Friend Amy blog is talking reading plans today as well for the weekly “Faith and Fiction Saturdays” post.

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