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The books I read are my “usual suspects”.

My Scandinavian mysteries, favorite authors, popular histories.

But, the other day I was reading yet another reference to the making of yet another media adaptation of another Philip K. Dick story.

Blade Runner is one of my all-time favorite movies. 

And yet, I have not read Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the basis for Blade Runner.

And just like that, I decided.

Resolution No. 1 :

I have to read some Philip K. Dick this year.

Another favorite movie of mine is Jean Cocteau's 1946 Belle et La Bête or Beauty and the Beast. Again, I have always wanted to read the original French fairy tale. Actually, I have always wanted to read some fairy tales.

Resolution No. 2:

Read a collection of classic fairy tales that includes Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast.

 

And . . .

Resolution No. 3:

Not to make too many resolutions.

Happy reading in 2016!