How are those New Year’s resolutions coming along? No surprise that Mark Twain was skeptical about your achieving those well intentioned, solemnly entered into, pledges.
“Yesterday,” Mark Twain wrote, “everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”Among his doubts, Twain leaves out diets and the ever popular "getting in shape." I’m certain he would have had plenty to say about those current obsessions with bodily perfection.
If, however, your New Year’s resolution was along the lines of “Will read more classic works of fiction in 2013.” I’m ready to believe Twain would say something like
“Go ahead. Surprise me. Pick up and read more good books in 2013. And why not start with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this year's Big Read book? I've been told no one has ever gained weight while reading a fine book. Just keep the Super Size Me drinks and the bon bons out of reach.”
After reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, what's on your To Read List 2013?
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