initially i was going to read a book every day, or MAYBE every two days if i needed a break (this during summer vacation of course), but my attention span turns out to be way too short for that – i can’t even read for an hour straight!

i did finish both animal dreams and on beauty this week, so i didn’t TOTALLY fail at my original goal. i also got a copy of madness and civilization at an used bookstore, and i salvaged a truckload of books from the sundry corners of my house, and i just bought atwood’s oryx and crake at this lovely bookstore i found, so i have lots of reading material for the months to come. finally, i’m undertaking the project of translating kate chopin’s the awakening line by line into chinese over the summer for the benefit of mi madre. so far i’m about 40 pages in!

6/10 – just finished the best american short stories of 1989, which is, coincidentally, anthologized by margaret atwood.

6/13 – finished oryx and crake, um, two days ago? yesterday? i’m not sure. at some point this week, anyway. just finished one hundred years of solitude today.

6/17 – mood all over the place, stopped reading, picking it back up again gradually.