[e002] More reading

This has been a long, long semester filled with too much homework and not enough socializing. I miss being able to spend time with my friends without having to stress out over the assignments I could be completing. Final projects are sneaking up on me, and plans for changing the house around have been reaching a slow boil in my head. I’m really looking forward to the short break from this busy schedule around Thanksgiving.

School aside, I have been working on my 52 books in 52 weeks goal. This doesn’t mean that I’m in the place that I need to be for this to be accomplished, but all the same I’m not so far behind that it’s impossible. I’m on week 17 and have read only 9 books, the most recent 8 being:

(Angela Cater's The Bloody Chamber, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Euripides's Medea, Stephen King's Misery, Everyman by Anonymous, Shakespeare's Richard II, Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines, and Moliere's Tartuffe)

I’m almost done reading 3 others:

(Aphra Behn's The Rover, Goethe's Faust, and Robert Atkin's ArtSpeak)

I'm pretty sure that once I can start reading general fiction again I'll be cruising through this challenge.

[e001] 52 Books in 52 Weeks

Why not start this first entry with something unrelated to art or science? I was recently browsing Eric Nuzum's blog when I saw he did a challenge of reading 52 books in 52 weeks. I couldn't help but think, "Cool! I definitely want to try that."

I'm that obnoxious person that hates being told that she is incapable of doing something, and being told such makes me want to do it even more. I can say with certainty that I will fail this goal, especially since I am on week three and I still have not finished my first book. Ergo, I want to prove myself wrong and turn these next eleven months into a reading spree, possibly even surpassing 52 books (more than double of what I read last year).

So, here I begin:

Book 1: The Dead Travel Fast by Eric Nuzum