One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
I read my whole list. Plus one Doug Wilson novel. And now I’ve started 1066 and all that.
Fiction: 165
Poetry: 13
Non – Fiction: 22
Longest Book: Orwell’s Essays. 1424 pages.
Shortest book: The Stranger by Albert Camus. 117 pages.
Average Book Length: 425 pages
Ten Best/Favorite/You Have to Read Books (in no particular order):
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James [...]
I finished The Odyssey at seven thirty this evening. I was surprised to do so. I actually read the last 8 books of it (162 pages) in an hour and a half!
I’m happy. I’m even blissful. I’m contemplating what to read next.
I’m also working on a long post about my favorite books of the year [...]
So I spent all day yesterday working on potty-training Alex. We had almost zero success, went through six pairs of underwear, 17 rags and half a bottle of Windex. I think we’ll keep trying today, but it just sounds exhausting.
On a more literary note (not that Homer didn’t need to be potty-trained…) it seems that [...]
I’ve got one hundred pages left in The Iliad and all of The Odyssey. I’ve really never understood those that find these works hard to follow. I mean yeah, they are long, and the structure is not straightforward, but still, just getting into the rhythm of the poetry doesn’t take too long and all the [...]
I read The Republic in two days. Actually in 24 hours. I rock. All I have left to read is The Iliad and The Odyssey. I’m really gettin close to being done and am really anxious to finish. I think I should have a party for myself when I am done. It would be impromptu [...]
OK, Christmas was nuts. Fun but crazy. The boys loved all their presents, were a little overwhelmed and hyper and were as adorable as could be. Jared ran off with the camera again (naturally) so you all will have to wait a bit to enjoy the cuteness.
Kafka is almost done and I really want to [...]
Walden is almost finished. I took a huge dose of Thoreau in one day and am not sure I’ll survive. Beans and rice are looking better and better. Seriously though, though he may be promoting a good life for a hermetic philosopher and while some of the concepts he preaches will bear out in a [...]
Here are a few shots of the birthday boy.
Zhivago is done for. I’d read it several times before but I don’t think I’d realized that it was produced under the Soviet regime. Somehow that just feels so wrong. I’m sure that there are deeper themes to tease out of that situation but I’m so tired and burned out right now that I don’t [...]
OK…I’ve been a posting slacker lately. Boring and even skipped posts follow one another with no break…but…I’m trying to read! The holidays are busy, very busy, and I have six more books to finish! Doctor Zhivago is almost finished and things are getting blurry. I promise to read all 200 but with the already maxed [...]