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300 books in 3 years – 2019 recap
I’m quite behind on my writeups, and having pretty much doomed myself to another year when I wrote my last entry, I will post a full list of titles I’ve finished in 2019, which amounts to 179 books. Keep in … Continue reading
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The High Likelihood of ‘300 Books in 3 Years’
Halfway through the month, and I haven’t gotten into the 80s yet (though I’m almost there and have at least 10 books with a bookmark sticking out somewhere in the middle. I’m at least 100 pages into 7 different titles … Continue reading
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200 books (final?) monthly update.
Dictated to my phone yesterday morning: I figured I would be writing this comfortably at my computer with a cup of coffee as today is a Sunday. While I’m technically ‘available’ to work Sunday, I almost never get sent any … Continue reading
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Book 146 of 200 – Star Wars: Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray
I was trying to swear off Star Wars books, since I read about a half dozen last year (and had already read 4 or 5 late in 2017 before I started the challenge.) But I was waiting in line at … Continue reading
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Book 145 of 200 – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
This is one of those books I’d never read before, but I can’t understand how that was even possible. I’m positive this was taught in my high school, and I believe it was on Rage Against the Machine’s reading list, … Continue reading
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Book 144 of 200 – For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
I took a class on Hemingway and Fitzgerald in college. I didn’t like the professor in general, and in particular what I saw as his boosterism of Hemingway, especially his short story technique, which still kind of irritates me. In … Continue reading
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Book 143 of 200 – Metamorphoses by Ovid (AD Melville translation.)
I took Latin in college, first the introductory courses, which were four days a week, followed by the ‘real’ courses, which were reading and translation. We were lucky in those undergraduate classes to get very far in any kind of … Continue reading
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Book 142 of 200 – Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
A rather damning chronicle of the way that Latin America was systematically exploited throughout its colonial history and into the modern era. In 1920…Cuba beat the world record in per capita export – even surpassing England – and had Latin … Continue reading
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Book 141 of 200 – Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.
I loved this book. I’ve actually become annoyed at Orwell recently, as his name is widely invoked by the right-wing here in their interminable crusade against ‘political correctness.’ While the extremes of PC have certainly shown themselves worthy of some … Continue reading
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Book 140 of 200 – The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B DuBois.
I thought this was going to be a case where my notes were wiped out, but actually, I began using an old notebook to coordinate my notes for this project and get organized. Then I switched to a new notebook … Continue reading
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