One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
Little Women Page: 370
Despite reading nothing but a children’s book today I’m still behind. I had so much work in the bookstore and the babies were a handful and a half so there was nothing for it but to fall further behind. I spent a few hours logging books into our database, packaging books for [...]
Essays George Orwell Page: 63
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Page: 220
I haven’t read Little Women in almost forever (at least 10 years) and I’m having the same nostalgic experience I had with Black Beauty. If anything Little Women is more preachy than Sewell’s book but I’m liking it better. No temperance league nonsense so [...]
Love in the Time of Cholera Page: 422
Essays by George Orwell Page: 30
I’ve been contemplating a more in-depth analysis of Marquez’s book than has been my wont in this project. It is a love-story. And it is complex and well-written. It is also serious. Which leads me to this quotation from Doug Wilson’s blog: “At [...]
Love in the Time of Cholera Page:319
I’m finding myself less emotional and more at peace with life as the days go on. I still long for more and uninterrupted sleep and I would love to have a little more time off with Jared. But on the whole life is achieving a sort of even keel [...]
Persuasion by Jane Austen Page: 249 Finished
A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes by Kate Greenaway Page: 96 Finished
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Page: 57
Persuasion was excellent and the ending as satisfying as all of Austen’s. Her heroines are the most cerebral in fiction and I love the way [...]
Persuasion by Jane Austen Page: 180
So I said in yesterday’s post that I had finished The Divine Comedy and when I wrote and posted it I was within 20 pages but instead of actually finishing those pages like I intended, I stood in the kitchen and chatted with Gabe and Amanda. Bad llama. Normally I [...]
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Page: 281 Finished
The Divine Comedy Page: 541 Finished
So there are plenty of wondering comments here and elsewhere as to how I can actually read so much every day. A few points of explanation. I really, really like to read and while some of these books are not necessarily my first [...]
The Divine Comedy Page: 455
I think today is my worst day so far in total pages read. However, I’m hoping to have plenty of time tomorrow, and maybe even some late this evening while I wait for Luc’s 11pm feeding. The boys were a handful today and I found myself laying on the floor behind [...]
…not that I don’t have enough of my own…
Any way, I’ve been thinking that one way to get through a thick difficult book would be to read it aloud one evening a week at Veritas. That way I’m forced to get through it but not in a way that completely fries my brain and my [...]
The Divine Comedy Page: 361
Before I get started on today’s regularly scheduled update, let me take a moment to correct a misperception. I think Shelf Awareness misunderstood a bit out of the article Erin Ryan did for the Idaho Statesman. I’m not working on this project as any kind of protest against Americans not reading. [...]