I have decided to make a new mid-year resolution for 2010. Actually every year in January, I make a list of resolutions for that year that I sometimes follow. Interestingly, one of those resolutions always have to do with books: read more literature books, read ## this amount of books by the end of the year, and etc. Today, I've decided I should make a new resolutions mid-year before 2011, to read more autobiographies! When I was younger, I never really understood the point of autobiographies that much. I thought, why read a whole book about someone else's life when there are all these other amazing novels out there with great stories to read?! But when I used to say those things, I was still only into reading fiction novels. However, in the past 2-3 years, I have actually become more interested in reading non-fiction and this is all part of my "reading for pleasure" in addition to college-worth readings.
To put it briefly, my mid-year resolution, or just one of my goals for Fall 2010 is to read more autobiographies of great people who lived many years ago (Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Gandhi, Simone de Beauvoir, etc) and some living today (Obama, etc). I've just recently learned and truly believe that when you read the real life history of a great person, then reaching their level of greatness sometimes seems more achievable. So, I'm hoping to read, as much as I can really, for this term. So far, I finished reading "Teacher Man" from Frank McCourt, which was sort of an autobiography of his life as a child, student, and teacher. Now, I have just begun reading Richard Wright's "Black Boy", whom I only learned about from the Reading Writing course I co-teach at Hostos. So far, the first 70 pages are very engaging and I'm really enjoying myself here.
Now, I just want to see how much this new found-passion of mine will hold true in what I actually achieve.
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