The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
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 [...]
Northanger Abbey Page: 241 Finished Tale of Genji Page: 163 So a customer came in today and asked me “Do you know Herman Hesse?” and I said “Not personally.” I have two main types of literate customers. Those who assume I have read and remembered every single book ever written and treat me like an [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 722 I marked my first book today. Page 584 of Waugh Abroad. In pencil. Highlighting the original of a passage in one of his novels. I feel slightly dirty and very exhilarated. I’m thrilled to think that I can thumb back through the book at any time and find that little paragraph [...]
Waugh Abroad Page: 528 Tonight Veritas hosted Steve Olsen-Smith’s Melville Marginalia presentation. This meant two things to me. An opportunity to interact with people who love and understand books and an opportunity to fizzle on my daily reading. I started the day on the note by failing to get up at 7. First I “forgot” [...]
Baudelaire Poems Page: 256 I cheated. Cheated on my books. I actually read a magazine today when I could have been reading catching up on my page count. Instead I devoured the latest Credenda Agenda when it came in the mail. I grew up reading Credenda which is published by Canon Press. I have long [...]
The Tale of Genji Page: 379 Poems of Baudelaire Page: 95 I wanted to read Baudelaire because of Lemony Snicket and I think I’m getting it. I haven’t actually read all of the Lemony Snicket books (all of #1 and part of #3) but enough to get the gist. I first heard about the series [...]
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli Page: 141 I had grand plans to finish The Prince and get back to reading The Canterbury Tales. Instead I’m about 35 pages shy of completing Machiavelli and it still looks like I’ve completely forgotten Chaucer existed. I had a fun day anyway. Embee took me shopping and I bought four [...]
Essays by George Orwell Page: 1363 FINISHED *ahhh…* Today seems like a good day to review my progress so far. We are one-quarter of the way through the year but sadly, I’m not one-quarter of the way through my reading. I thought I was going to end up marking this milestone with a day of [...]
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 [...]
The Adventures of Robin Hood Page: 275 Essays by George Orwell Page: 220 This morning was rather interesting. Luc got me up at seven and Alex was up soon after. Since we were up a bit early (usually more like 7:30) I decided to give both boys a bath, rather than waiting for tonight, and [...]