The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
I read all of The Secret Garden yesterday and I’m really over pedantic children’s literature. Ok, ok, I get it, fresh air and plain food are all the world needs… In other news the boys and I had an absolutely fabulous day. We played, I worked and hardly a fussy note escaped either of them! [...]
I finished The Radetzky March. Good book, very moving and tragic. Also read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Freaking weird little book. I did not like it at all! It was abrupt, repetitive, creepy and arbitrary. There seemed no sense of wonder or beauty or myth about it. I can’t believe that it has the [...]
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 [...]
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Page: 564 Finished The story ends kind of happy, kind of sad but better than I expected. Mr. Biswas wants a house, finally gets it five years before he dies and then almost loses it. But his daughter saves the day and his widow isn’t left homeless. [...]
A House for Mr. Biswas Page: 360 Today was a busy and full day…as usual. I had the usual routine of taking care of the boys, trying to get reading done etc. But I also did extra housework, some writing, and hosted book club. Then, after my fellow book-clubbers went home, Jared and I set [...]
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Page: 272 Another good day for the page count. Yay! I might actually catch up…if this trend continues that is. Ahh…the Stoics. Good old Marcus Aurelius. He is so fascinating to read and important too but he kinda makes me want to go out and indulge in all my favorite parts [...]
The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekov Page: 310 Alex vacuumed the entire house this morning with the little hand-vac. He wore the battery all the way down and wasn’t very efficient about it but oh, how happy I am to think that soon he and Luc can take over some of the simpler chores. [...]
The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekov Page: 144 The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning Page: 106 Finished I love the Kate Greenaway illustrations in the Everyman’s edition of Browning’s poem. They are absolutely lovely, however the story makes me so sad. I cannot stand the idea of losing my children and even [...]
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 by Evelyn Waugh Page: 710 Finished A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Page: 130 I’m posting in the morning again. Not, this time, because of internet difficulties, but because of wakefulness difficulties. That is, Jared and I put the boys to bed at eight and fell onto the bed [...]