finish my summer reading

1. Atlas Shrugged
—done, almost done with both essays and extra work
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
—all done
3. To the Lighthouse
—reading now
4. Waiting for Godot
—all done
5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
—all done
6. Mythology
—reading now
7. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Just twomore left. [=

I finished Taras Bulba and I’m about halfway through Pushkin’s Prose Fiction and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The latter I’ve read before so it’s going quickly. I’ve been sneaking books in that aren’t on my list and it’s been slowing me down! I picked up a copy of Everything is Illuminated by Foer and read it yesterday. It’s quirky and trippy – but good. Very comedic with several very serious parts.

I finished Notes from the Underground and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which came together in one publication, as well as Pushkin’s Little Tragedies over the weekend. I have all day to read today, since I took a week off from work. Hallelujah. Hopefully I’ll be able to knock out one more, or at least most of one, today.

Usually I do more reading than I plan to in the summer. This summer is a little different. I have a boyfriend. Gasp. So he’s been taking up some of the time that would normally be spent with my nose in a book. Luckily, my job allows me time to read while I’m there and still look busy. I work at a library; after I finish my morning duties and no one needs any immediate assistance, I have plenty of time to read between replacing books to their rightful place.

So far this summer I’ve read (of the books actually on my list):

1. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
2. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
3. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogal
4. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
5. Great Russian Short Stories by Leonid Andreyev, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vsevolod M. Garshin, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, Nikolai Leskov, Alexander Pushkin
6. Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
8. Lieutenant Kije/Young Vitushishnikov by Yury Tynyanov
9. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
10. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Still have quite a few left, but some are rather short, and one I’ve read before:

1. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Alexander Pushkin Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin
5. Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin
6. Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
7. On the Edge of the World by Nikolai S. Leskov
8. Stories from a Siberian Village by Vasilii Makarovich Shukshin

I’ll definitely have them finished by the end of August though.

1. Atlas Shrugged
—reading now
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
—read and done with both essays
3. To the Lighthouse
4. Waiting for Godot
5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
—read; will begin essays tomorrow
6. Mythology
—reading now
7. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

but i’m powering through. Slowly.

Each book/play entails two essays (except number seven); there is additional work for Atlas Shrugged.

1. Atlas Shrugged
—reading now
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
—read and mostly done with both essays
3. To the Lighthouse
4. Waiting for Godot
5. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
6. Mythology
—reading now
7. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

1/2 way there!

i finished my reading the day before the first day of school. i am just glad that i completed it because i heard that many of the people in my classes did not finish their reading.

i finished my reading the day before the first day of school. i am just glad that i completed it because i heard that many of the people in my classes did not finish their reading.