{"id":6731,"date":"2012-12-23T07:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2012-12-23T07:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T11:29:52","slug":"this-is-all-going-according-to-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/this-is-all-going-according-to-plan","title":{"rendered":"This is all going according to plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just getting started on my annual <em>Another Year, In the Books<\/em>\u00a0post for 2012 (and it&#8217;s a doozy), and I just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/books-ahead\" target=\"_blank\">this list I posted in January 2012<\/a> of books I was hoping to read in 2012. I actually did okay on that, given how often my reading plans go off the rails.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Sun Also Rises<\/em> \u2013 Hemingway (re-read)<\/li>\n<li><em>Money<\/em> \u2013 Martin Amis<\/li>\n<li><em>The Learners<\/em> \u2013 Chip Kidd<\/li>\n<li><em>The Aeneid<\/em> \u2013 Virgil<\/li>\n<li><em>The Metamorphoses<\/em> \u2013 Ovid<\/li>\n<li><em>Cultural Amnesia<\/em> \u2013 Clive James<\/li>\n<li><em>Brideshead Revisited<\/em> \u2013 Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n<li><em>Stories<\/em> \u2013 Anton Chekhov (tr. Pevear &amp; Volokhonsky)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>DIDN&#8217;T GET AROUND TO<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em> \u2013 Hemingway<\/li>\n<li><em>Tender is the Night<\/em> \u2013 Fitzgerald (re-read)<\/li>\n<li><em>Under the Frog<\/em> \u2013 Tibor Fischer<\/li>\n<li><em>Chronicles, vol. 1<\/em> \u2013 Bob Dylan (re-read)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Dictionary of the Khazars<\/em> \u2013 Milorad Pavic<\/li>\n<li><em>Life<\/em> \u2013 Keith Richards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s better than 50%! Alert the media!<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Another Year, In the Books<\/em> should post next weekend, in time for New Year&#8217;s. Maybe I&#8217;ll put together another <em>Books Ahead<\/em> post after that so we can see just how well I&#8217;m able to schedule my bookishness!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just getting started on my annual Another Year, In the Books\u00a0post for 2012 (and it&#8217;s a doozy), and I just came across this list I posted in January 2012 of books I was hoping to read in 2012. I actually did okay on that, given how often my reading plans go off the rails. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/this-is-all-going-according-to-plan\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is all going according to plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1Kz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6250,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/books-ahead","url_meta":{"origin":6731,"position":0},"title":"Books ahead","author":"Gil","date":"January 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On Friday evening, Amy was over at a neighbor's, so I spent some time downstairs in the library, looking at my books and pulling ones that I hope to read in the year ahead. 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