One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
I read quite a bit today. After finishing The Rights of Man this morning and blogging the boys and I went for a walk to the bank. I read about half of Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys on the walk and then finished it over the too short nap time. It was [...]
I read a lot of books. I read them pretty fast; about 1/2 a book a day. I read them not just as recreation but to learn and understand more. Fortunately reading to learn is not a matter of volume. You can linger over a book for months and ferret out every little detail and [...]
Today I finished The Complete Bech (still not happy with how Updike played with his character in the next-to-last story), read all of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and part of The Rights of Man. 143 down. 57 to go! I thought a lot of Common Sense was neither common nor sense, but then I’m a [...]
I’m almost done with Updike’s book (The Complete Henry Bech) and it’s taken a weird turn. I’m still somewhat impressed by the book but if these last 40 pages keep up with this new turn, I’m not sure how I’ll take it. It’s like Updike just thought “Hmmm…I haven’t ever written a murder mystery…I guess [...]
I’m tired of updating my daily page count. It’s getting depressing. I’m some six thousand pages behind where I should be and seriously beginning to wonder where the extra time is going to come from in the next few months. I’m just going to keep track over on the list page of how many titles [...]
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Page: 264 Finished The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike Page: 90 Turns out that the cryfest that prompted yesterday’s plea for help had an *ahem* hormonal cause. I always feel like that invalidates everything. Anyway, I’ve often thought that this is just one of those “hard [...]
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald Page: 200 Fitzgerald’s style is unusual and surprising. I hadn’t expected the variations of mode or the easy familiarity. I don’t remember The Great Gatsby employing any of these techniques. Still, good book, and very worthwhile. I like novels about education or coming of age. I could [...]
Crime and Punishment Page: 564 Finished The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter Page: 162 I’m way too low on energy tonight. Ready for sleep! But before I go here’s a little early Thanksgiving. I’m grateful for my little boys laughs. I’m grateful for hot coffee and sweet pastries. I’m grateful for my thoughtful [...]
Crime and Punishment Page: 450 Oops. I forgot to post last night. But since it’s six thirty in the morning what’s the difference really? The boys have been getting up awfully early lately meaning that no matter how hard I try to rise and shine, the shine part isn’t working out so well. Sad. We [...]
Crime and Punishment Page: 300 I’m a little worried about my teenage self. Why did I enjoy the Russian authors so very much? It’s not that I don’t think Crime and Punishment is a good book or worthy of it’s classic status, it’s just so very sad and depressing. Definitely an interesting book, as fascinating [...]