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I’m working on The Pilgrim’s Progress, Shakespeare’s sonnets, and Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1. The latter isn’t working out for me in this format, so I think I’ll replace it with The Prince.

You can only sign up for 3 books at a time. Once I’m done with the Shakespeare, I’ll move on to Leaves of Grass.

I’d read complete works by about 25% of the authors in Fadiman’s own classic book. That was probably about 5 years ago. Since then, I’ve been comparatively slackerly about reading for fun.

I’m looking forward to changing that!

On the plus side, during my drought period, I’ve made tremendous progress on reading philosophy, where I was previously at something like a standstill.

I’ve also lost some key titles from my library (including most of my Russians! Horrors!), so I have to/get to reacquire some titles. But is book shopping ever really a chore? I think I’ll take advantage of this opportunity and score nicer editions of favorites I’m looking forward to rereading.