The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
Love in the Time of Cholera Page:319 I’m finding myself less emotional and more at peace with life as the days go on. I still long for more and uninterrupted sleep and I would love to have a little more time off with Jared. But on the whole life is achieving a sort of even [...]
Persuasion by Jane Austen Page: 180 So I said in yesterday’s post that I had finished The Divine Comedy and when I wrote and posted it I was within 20 pages but instead of actually finishing those pages like I intended, I stood in the kitchen and chatted with Gabe and Amanda. Bad llama. Normally [...]
The Divine Comedy Page: 361 Before I get started on today’s regularly scheduled update, let me take a moment to correct a misperception. I think Shelf Awareness misunderstood a bit out of the article Erin Ryan did for the Idaho Statesman. I’m not working on this project as any kind of protest against Americans not [...]
Ride a-Cock-Horse and other Rhymes and Stories Randolph Caldecott Page: 249 The Divine Comedy Page: 161 Ok, so there is a little 12 year old boy somewhere in my head that goes “haha…you said ‘cock’” when I talk about this book and I can’t shut him up. But, it’s seriously a great little book for [...]
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler Page: 373 So this book has continuous pagination even though it’s four separate books bound as one while Jane Eyre and Democracy in America, though single books, retained their original multi-volume pagination. I’m confuzzed. Anyway, it’s still fun to read Chandler and I think I’m going to develop a [...]
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville Page: 107 Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm Page: 314 I just started De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America today and within the first few pages I was struck by how oddly dated it felt after reading the incomparably older Confessions. Certainly the contemporary references enhance the political study [...]
The Confessions by St. Augustine Page: 120 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Page:488 Finished The Sleeping Beauty by C.S. Evans page: 108 Finished I had a friend mention the other day that reading about my project (to read a freakin’ lot of books) was making her feel “even worse” about herself. After passing it off [...]
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Page: 441 I enjoyed my heavy dose of Jane Austen today as I knew I would but I have many other things to write about besides the plot of Mansfield Park. Maybe it’s the cumulative effect of always being at the bookstore and therefore having very little privacy or maybe [...]
Ripey’s Game by Patricia Highsmith Page: 877 The Best of Wodehouse Page: 23 Ok so I just started Wodehouse and I’m already rolling on the floor laughing. On page one describing a hangover “I had been dreaming that some bounder was driving spikes through my head – not just ordinary spikes, as used by Jael [...]
The Histories by Herodotus Page: 727 Finished Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith: 697 So I didn’t get a ton of reading done today but I did finish Herodotus – Yay! I’m glad I read it and I’m glad I had to finish it because I might of put it down after the first 100 or [...]