I got a chance to read and ended up reading that very disappointing Norwich book on the popes. That means Anna Karenina and Der Zauberberg are pretty much where I left them (500 pages done and 200 pages, respectively).
At this point, my goal for the rest of the year is very, very limited: finish Druon's Les Rois Maudits (two books left but very little interest in the series anymore; Druon is a bad version of Dumas, has terrible descriptions and has now made the plot section boring), finish what I'm reading now and read Nietzsche's Zarathustra. If I can get that done before New Year's, I'll consider that, even though my reading challenge failed, I at least read 10 books in both French and German and read something significant in Russian that I hadn't read before.
If I had it to do over again, I'd skip Norwich and George Martin, and probably that awful Brecht play.
At this point, my goal for the rest of the year is very, very limited: finish Druon's Les Rois Maudits (two books left but very little interest in the series anymore; Druon is a bad version of Dumas, has terrible descriptions and has now made the plot section boring), finish what I'm reading now and read Nietzsche's Zarathustra. If I can get that done before New Year's, I'll consider that, even though my reading challenge failed, I at least read 10 books in both French and German and read something significant in Russian that I hadn't read before.
If I had it to do over again, I'd skip Norwich and George Martin, and probably that awful Brecht play.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
It's October. Only three months left this year. What are your reading plans?
- 03/10/2011 08:31:28 AM
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i'll be reading, almost exclusively, the jobs section of every newspaper i can get my hands on
- 03/10/2011 10:52:39 AM
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It's still all about Dickens
- 03/10/2011 11:22:43 AM
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I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore.
- 03/10/2011 02:17:15 PM
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Re: I just read The Scarlet Pimpernel, after stumbling across it in a second-hand bookstore.
- 03/10/2011 04:08:07 PM
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I accidentally read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, or most of it, yesterday
- 10/10/2011 03:56:00 PM
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Pratchett!
- 15/10/2011 03:38:44 PM
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Would one of you lovely people please write a review?
- 17/10/2011 06:33:35 PM
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Might write one tomorrow evening or maybe Saturday. *NM*
- 20/10/2011 02:32:33 PM
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*NM*
Eh, what is this reading you speak of?
- 06/10/2011 01:01:18 PM
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Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday.
- 08/10/2011 05:03:09 PM
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Re: Read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino on the train yesterday.
- 10/10/2011 03:56:27 PM
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By "festive" I take it you mean Halloween-related?
- 09/10/2011 12:05:49 AM
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I mean any of the big days that are coming up in the next three months, actually. *NM*
- 09/10/2011 10:30:52 AM
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Ah, so you're looking further ahead than October? I should have realised you meant Bonfire Night... *NM*
- 09/10/2011 11:07:22 AM
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Reading. Yeah, I remember that.
- 10/10/2011 06:27:36 PM
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That's a bit how I'm feeling these days. I read, but I don't remember anything. *NM*
- 10/10/2011 06:37:15 PM
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The final book is among the better ones, albeit completely unrelated to the rest of the series. *NM*
- 10/10/2011 10:42:39 PM
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Either way, they're mercifully short works, compared to Der Zauberberg and Anna Karenina.
- 11/10/2011 01:07:59 AM
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It is perhaps the worst pile of shit I have read in a long time.
- 19/10/2011 03:04:12 AM
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Oh. I guess there's no accounting for tastes. 
- 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM
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- 19/10/2011 08:08:50 PM
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SMOOTH READ? That book is the definition of a choppy, disjointed piece of shit.
- 19/10/2011 08:30:22 PM
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Just vague plans this month.
- 10/10/2011 06:38:27 PM
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No plan but...
- 18/10/2011 01:55:41 AM
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And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators...
- 18/10/2011 07:06:56 PM
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Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators...
- 19/10/2011 02:15:03 AM
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Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators...
- 19/10/2011 08:18:06 PM
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Re: And here was me thinking nobody could be any slower than Murakami's English translators...
- 21/10/2011 02:45:37 AM
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Huh, did I not reply to the main thread? Guess I'll have to do it rather belatedly then.
- 24/10/2011 07:45:33 PM
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- 24/10/2011 07:45:33 PM
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