One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald Page: 440 I really enjoy the days that I get my reading goal in. It makes me feel responsible. I worked on setting up an Amazon store today. I thought it would be nice to have all the lovely books I’ve been enjoying reading sorted and [...]
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights Page: 346 Finished Lots of pages read but just a children’s book so I don’t feel too accomplished. I have a little theory. I think that the notion of “love at first sight” may not be as much a sentimental American idea as an Oriental idea. From [...]
The Sword of Honour Trilogy Page: 432 Book club was at my house tonight because, of course, we can no longer meet at Veritas. I got to show off my books to my bookish friends and that was fun, so I’m continuing that here. These four photos are all the books I’ve read so far [...]
I actually read a little yesterday. I finished The Trial just before going to bed. FYI, not a good way to improve your dreams. Anyway, after the dust settles at Veritas and I have a chance to spend a little down time with the computer and my stack of books, I’ll update my page-count and [...]
The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Page: 304 Finished The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh Page: 500 My love of books has been enjoying a renaissance. I’ve been moving lots of books around and the fun of handling them and seeing them re-arranged seems fresh. I love seeing lovely books all lined up and [...]
Joseph and His Brothers Page: 410 I’m halfway through the year and it’s time for another assessment. Numerically things don’t look good. At this point I should have read 100 books or 39,675 pages. In fact I have read 84 & 1/3 books or 33,914 pages. I’d like to think that catching up almost 6000 [...]
Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann Page: 185 I’ve hardly read today. We did finally get a whole Sunday off (thank you Q) but between church, taking the boys swimming and trying to spend a little time with my husband…well, the book just lost out. I’m tired and I don’t feel well; Alex has been [...]
Song of Solomon Page: 363 Joseph and His Brothers By Thomas Mann Page: 160 I ordered a new batch of books yesterday. It’s been awhile since I’ve ordered any (I had to spend my book money on that speeding ticket. Sad.) and I’m so excited to see them come in. I ordered Sherlock Holmes, more [...]
Tale of Genji Page: 1028 So bybee over at Naked Without Books described me as “nucking futs”…that sounds about right… It’s not Genji’s fault that my page count was so low today, I was uber-productive at work which equals very little reading. Then I came home with the boys this evening and spent all my [...]
The Tale of Genji Page: 960 Before I started this blog I had no idea that there were a gazillion book blogs out there already. Thanks to Wordpress’s incoming link tracking, I’ve discovered that they’re all over. Other readers find my blog and then post about it and link back to me. Sometimes I’m annoyed [...]