It was a light week here; I only finished two relatively short books. I can tell I'm entering one of those phases where my reading slows down and my movie-watching speeds up, and there's no point in pushing myself because I'll just want to read even less if I do that.
Recent completions:
Reading this week:
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Up next:
Challenge progress:
1% Well-Read: 6/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 2/5
A to Z Challenge: 19/26
Baker Street Challenge: 0/4
Chunkster: 0/3
Classics Challenge: 2/6
Decades '09: 7/9
Dewey Decimal: 7/10
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1/2
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books: 1/100
George Eliot: 0/2
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 2/10
Nonfiction 5: 2/5
Orbis Terrarum: 6/10
Summer Vacation Reading: 1/6
Support Your Local Library: 21/50
TBR Lite: 4/6
What's in a Name 2: 3/6
World Citizen Challenge: 6/7
999 Challenge (overall): 38/81
999 Subcategories:
- 1001 Books: 4/9
- Booker/National Awards: 2/9
- Through the Decades: 7/9
- Dewey's Books: 5/9
- C.S. Lewis: 1/9
- Biographies: 3/9
- Travel: 5/9
- Catholicism: 4/9
- Dewey Decimal: 7/9
3 comments:
THank you for the introduction to Nathalie Angier! This looks wonderful. I love the variety here in your reading.
Girl! I haven't visited your blog in awhile -- WOW, I love what you've done with it! So much personality!! Looks great!
Lisa
Yeah...I've tried to read Middlemarch...twice. Just couldn't go for a third time!
Good luck with it!
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