Winter Reading

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I'm compiling my winter reading list, and the following items have made their way onto the list:

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstory (a re-read from many years ago)Talking about Detective Fiction, by P.D. JamesThe Elements of Mystery Fiction, by William G. TapplyThe Rest of the Bible, by Theron MathisThe Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church, by Vladimir LosskyRussian Ballet Master: the Memoirs of Marius Petipa, by (inevitably) Marius Petipa
French Provincial Cooking, by Elizabeth David

A few quick notes:

-- No, I'm not interested in seeing the new film Anna Karenina. I was, however, so irked by the trailer that I decided to re-read the book and particularly the new(ish) translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
-- French Provincial Cooking is over 500 pages in length and contains a rather intimidating amount of text. That is to say, one doesn't just pick it up and choose a recipe to try. There's some reading involved, and I'd like to dig in and get through it. (The fact that Penguin publishes a version of this should indicate that it's almost as much literature as cookbook.)
I've also made a blog decision, and that is I'll be cutting back on the blogging after the New Year (some time after January 3rd, since I have a TLC Book Tours review that day). I just don't have the same interest in this right now, and I don't know that I feel like keeping up with blogging. Part of this is due to the nature of my reading, which as far as I can tell is going to have a pretty narrow reading audience. I hate to bore people with reviews of books they probably aren't interested in reading, but I don't want to limit my own reading to a projected interest among readers.