read all the books i own and haven't read

I got within four, then Christmas happened. I’m not such a bookworm currently. I’m glad I got close at least!

Finally. Well, a few weeks ago, but it certainly took me long enough. Now I’m taking a break from this list with a borrowed copy of Brief History of Time. I love physics! I should have been a scientist . . . . I just like dabbling too much to make it a career.

I have a list of about forty that I’d love to read in the next ten months. I’d better get going on those last five so I can give myself permission to purchase . . .
At least I won’t be dumbfounded like always when my family asks me what I want for Christmas. The hard part will be getting my parents to buy used! I think a group shopping trip is in order.

I am half finished with Vanity Fair. I am so glad to have modern forms of entertainment instead of having needlework, piano, drawing and gossip for my only sources of fun.

Emerson, gun culture, oriental civilization, Vanity Fair, and Moby Dick. I’m kind of in the middle of Moby Dick, we’re on again – off again. It’s okay. I did read my entire collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke a few weeks ago and then reread Fahrenheit 451. Mmm!
I should still be able to finish those five by year’s end, it will just take some determination.

I’ve finished Walden, I’ll take a day or so to finish Civil Disobedience and the poems at the end of the volume. Love this book. Five to go! A good friend of mine also just promised me first pickings off of her slimmed-down book collection when she moves off to grad school. Free great books! Nothing better.

I finished A Farewell to Arms at three in the morning. What a miserable love story!

check. Next: A Farewell to Arms.

I finished The Sound and the Fury this weekend. Why did I buy this?

I have eight left. Hmmm, what’s next?

I finished Jude the Obscure this weekend. Why didn’t I read this earlier?