Reading Update

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Adam is a demanding challenge host.  It's January 15th and he's already asking for an update!  Now you may have noticed that while I've been posting incredibly fascinating introductions to classic children's authors, I haven't actually produced any book reviews yet this year (oh, I guess I did--but they were for books finished before the New Year).  It must be some sort of record for me not to have finished a single book in the last two weeks!  I have two excuses: things have been very busy indeed, and also I've been reading several really long books at the same time.

Last year at this time I was polishing off an average of a book a day.  I must have had a very quiet vacation, because so far this month I've barely had a chance to sit down with a book!  We've had family visiting from far away, we spent a day doing historical re-enactment at Sutter's Fort (which requires a lot of preparation, and I honestly had a rotten attitude about the whole thing and then I had to repent when it turned out to be a great day, with perfect sunny weather even), and school started back up long before I was ready for it.  I don't even go back to work until next week and I'm feeling overwhelmed!

So here are the books I am reading right now--you'll see why I haven't finished any.  The page numbers are approximate.

Anna Karenina--600/900+ pages
Portrait of a Lady--250/800 pages
India: A Sacred Geography--150/450 pages
Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon--nearly finished with this normally-sized book!
Reached: 150/500 pages


I'm reading too many books that are too long all at once.  I had thought that Anna Karenina was on my list for Adam's challenge--it would certainly qualify--but apparently I didn't put it on that particular list at all.  I just now figured this out.  Dang.  So, all this is to say that I have not yet even started on my RBR TBR Challenge list, even though I thought I had.  But I'm enjoying all of them very much, so it's all good.

Comments

  1. Roof Beam ReaderJanuary 15, 2013 at 1:51 PM

    Hah! I get my challenge and non-challenge books mixed up all the time. I'll think a book is on a list when it's not, or I'll think it's not on a list when it's on all 3!

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  2. The Relentless ReaderJanuary 15, 2013 at 7:04 PM

    LOL, I do that all the time too. I'm glad to know that I'm not alone! Good luck with the TBR challenge!

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  3. EvaJanuary 16, 2013 at 8:35 AM

    I just finished The Mysteries of Udolpho, and between busy life and it being a longer book, it's the first book I've finished this week! V strange after all my reading last week, but a nice break too. :)

    You reminded me that Eck has been on my 'to try out' list for ages & I just requested one of her older books from the library! Curious to see what you make of the India one.

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  4. JeanJanuary 16, 2013 at 11:45 AM

    The India one is neat so far but sometimes repetitive, and oddly academically-politically-correct at times. She's said several times now that your basic political map is a colonial thing that has little to do with how people experience their landscape, or something like that, which I think is kind of a pointless thing to say.

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  5. JeanJanuary 16, 2013 at 11:46 AM

    That, however, is nitpicking, and overall I'm enjoying the book just fine.

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