The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh Page: 81 Over 400 pages yesterday and less than 100 today… Quinn watched Veritas for us today so Jared and I spent the whole day together chasing the boys. Luc is eating an enormous amount of cereal and is growing like crazy. Alex smacked me in the head [...]
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Page: 319 Finished The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Page: 1313 Finished I love Treasure Island. I’ve read it dozens of times since I first picked it up when I was 12 or so. It is perfect, exciting, wise but not moralistic, and just plain fun. I also thoroughly [...]
The Cairo Trilogy Page: 1177 I recently read on someone else’s blog that it is customary to post 100 facts about oneself in your 100th post. That came and went a long time ago but lets try for 200. This will be long… . I’m 27. . I have blue eyes. . Light brown hair. [...]
The Cairo Trilogy Page: 1040 For the few of you that might pay attention to this kind of thing…I usually post every single night sometime around 10pm. I forgot last night. It was weird, I sat up in bed at 11pm and exclaimed “I forgot to post!” Jared sleepily murmured “It’s ok.” And we both [...]
The Cairo Trilogy Page: 836 I’m burned out…no post tonight…
The Cairo Trilogy Page: 605 I’ve recently discovered the delightful world of waiter-blogging. Thanks to VSL I was introduced to Waiter Rant and from there discovered others. I’m still in the service industry, though as an owner injustices are less frequent, and I spent years hostessing and waiting tables so the frustrations these bloggers express [...]
Palace Walk Page: 401 I’ve got a good streak going. Another 230 pages down. Woot. I’m enjoying the novel but oh how glad I am that I’m not Muslim. Not Muslim and not living in a conservative society. Imagine 25 years and never setting foot out of the house! During which time your husband carries [...]
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Page: 213 Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz Page: 171 I finished Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist treatise today and found the opening of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy to be a startlingly dissonant note. She insists that women should never be solely dependent on a man for either subsistence or mental [...]
Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Page: 446 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Page: 84 I was prepared for Bulgakov’s novel to be “too much” for me. Maybe it’s the rest of the reading I’ve been doing this year, maybe it’s the natural consequence of high expectations, maybe it’s just because [...]
Master andMargarita Page: 250 Linda G. Wins! I used a random number generator which gave me the wonderful number 7 so comment 7 won and will be receiving Dracula. That was fun. I hardly got any reading done today partly because I’m so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open and partly because the [...]