Ever since we got married, lo these many months ago, I’ve been going to the library every 3 weeks on Friday afternoon and then meeting Stephan downtown for dinner. But this weekend, I came to a very grave decision that will free up a good 3 hours of my time per month: no more library. Until I read all of the books we own that I haven’t read all of yet.
All literature is mandatory. Children’s books and textbooks are excluded, the former because they will be force-read to our impending children and the latter because they are boring (Macroeconomics and the Global Business Environment, anyone?) and I am in charge.
I am also not reading any reference books or anything that isn’t in English. Oh, and though it does not fall into any of the above categories, I will also not be reading The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates.
This leaves 94 books. Ninety-four! That’s a lot of books, Internets! At two per week (unlikely), I should finish in July of next year 2027). Not to mention whatever new books we may acquire in that time period.
I am not looking forward to:
Les Miserables (Very long and also not mine. I admit I was aware of this possession before I married Stephan, so I guess I made that bed.)
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Three Musketeers
The Last of the Mohicans (Movie score notwithstanding, a horrible book [at least the first three chapters], and I was gratified to learn in Modern American Literature that I am not the only one who thinks so.)
The Brothers Karamazov (I’ve made it through the first four or five chapters on three separate occasions. Ah, the road to hell.)
And a whole bunch of poetry: blech. Maybe I will outsource this part.
Any takers?
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The Three Musketeers might be fun, who knows. But isnt the brothers karamzov about acrobats? that wouldnt be too bad, i would think ;)
You and you’re I hate poetry club! Wow! I thought perhaps that you might give it a chance now. What do you have? i might be willing to take them off your hands if you like.
Matt: I’ve tried The Three Musketeers before and didn’t have much luck. But you’re right; I do love acrobats!
Lori: I have three or four poetry books from when I started taking Northwest Writers, and the rest are like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, etc., in sets and/or or stupid anthologies that I stupidly added to the “to read” list even though they are *clearly* textbooks. In conclusion, you are more than welcome to borrow as many as you want (just don’t tell Eric that I have them!). Are you back in town yet?
your link under “94 books” took me to a “tim spalding’s” to read list :)
http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
My bad. Fixed now. :)
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