The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
Essays Page: 525 I’ve been contemplating a way to review the books I’ve been reading. In-depth reviews will simply take too long and too much thought and some books don’t deserve that much consideration. Veryshortlist.com highlighted an interesting book awhile ago that gave me an idea. It was a compilation of six-word autobiographies by famous [...]
Essays by George Orwell Page: 420 My blog posts have been difficult to write lately because I’ve been starting and finishing them after either Jared or I get home from Veritas at night (so after 9:30). And since Gabe lives here, he and Amanda are almost always hanging out and watching TV upstairs which is [...]
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Page: 704 Today is Jared and I’s third anniversary. We got to go home early (thanks Quinn) but had a pretty low key evening which is almost over. It’s kinda funny to realize that we were planning on waiting until we had been married about four or five years [...]
The Three Musketeers Page: 540 So I took the day off to read. I did get over 400 pages read but that’s not nearly enough to catch me up. It was kinda nice to be home most of the day…most because I went to Veritas for a latte this morning and I went back for [...]
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Page: 137 Another crappy day for getting any reading done has come and gone. It has gotten so bad that I’ve decided to take the day off tomorrow in order to get a little caught up. I actually started reading an “easy” book today to try to at least [...]
Canterbury Tales Page: 258 Today was one of the most frustrating I’ve experienced. Every attempt to read was thwarted; ditto attempts to nap. John was a sweetheart and offered to watch the shop for a couple of hours this afternoon. We came home and I dropped Jared and Alex off at the park to play. [...]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Page: 368 Finished I got up at six this morning to open Veritas and this gave me two uninterrupted hours to read. Rather than trying to get through more Chaucer or Orwell (which I doubt I could have done, as bleary-eyed as I was) I the agreeable, easy to [...]
Canterbury Tales Page: 207 Essays Orwell Page: 373 I didn’t actually do my reading tonight because nobody came to here it…well Kayla came but we ended up visiting instead of reading, so that’s another 20 pages I’m behind… On Tuesday I read in one of Orwell’s essays, “Inside the Whale”, this commentary on Joyce’s Ulysses. [...]
Canterbury Tales Page: 157 I think this is my worst day ever for total page count. Chaucer is difficult to read quickly ‘though not difficult to enjoy or even that hard to understand if you take the time to read the notes. Of course I’ve read Chaucer before, in Lit classes, with discussion and instruction [...]
Canterbury Tales Page: 121 Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear Page: 287 I’m just going to go ahead and offer a blanket recommendation of all the Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics. I’ve read eleven of them so far and they are consistently stellar. The illustrations are great in all of them and while the styles, stories [...]