What I’m Reading Monday #3

Currently Reading: Villette by Charlotte Bronte, which is my pick for The Classics Club’s month of the Romantics, and The Hobbit and Philosophy.

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Hobbit Philosophy

Finished: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, which I hope to have a review done for it by Friday at the latest, and Adventures in Reading by May Lamberton Becker; one of the three books about books and reading I found at the library.  I have several quotes from it for Thursday’s Quotables that I’m excited to share with all of you.

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Total pages read for the week: 577

Total number of books for the year: 42.  I will hopefully finish both of my current reads by the end of the month so that I’ll only have 6 books left to reach my goal for the year, but I’m going to concentrate on Villette so that I will be able to cross off another book from my Classics Club goal list.  I have 5 years in order to finish the list, but that means 10 books per year, and several of the books on my list are longer.  I was able to get a lot more reading down this week than I thought, despite this usually being when my reading slows down.  My classes are in full swing, but somehow it still feels like the very beginning of the semester with not a whole lot to do.  I’m sure that will change, but I’m happy that I had much more time to read this week.

What I’m Reading Monday #2

Currently Reading: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, my book club’s pick for September, and The Hobbit and Philosophy to give my brain something more intelligent and satisfying.  I would’ve added A Discovery of Witches to my DNF list, but by time it started going from really good to horrible, I was already far past the first 50 pages.  So, I’ll finish it, and then gleefully tear it to shreds in my review.

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Hobbit Philosophy

Total pages read for the week: 398

Total number of books for the year: 40.  I will hopefully finish both of my current reads by the end of the month so that I’ll only have 8 books left to reach my goal for the year.  I really wish I could say “by the end of the week”, but this is the time of year when my reading usually slows down a bit.

What I’m Reading Monday #1

Books read this week: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

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DNF books: The No.1 Lady’s Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.  It was so ridiculously horrible I couldn’t even get to 50 pages before I stopped.

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Books started: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, my book club’s pick for September.

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Total pages read for the week: 210

Total number of books for the year: 40, so I only have 10 books left to reach my goal.  If things work out for me to go over my goal, I’ll be increasing it for next year.