I'm already behind, but now that the holidays are over, there is more time for reading. I decided to read Virginia Woolf's Night and Day
which I'd downloaded but not read several months back. That
one can go into the "found in a corner gathering dust" category even though it's
an e-version. Reading Night and Day is an opportunity to examine why I
always find Woolf tiresome after the first few chapters.
There is no hurry to get through Empire of the Mind.
I've reached the portion dealing with the transition to the Umayyd and
Abbasid caliphates and am already seeing the value of reading history
with a better understanding of the role of the Iranians. The only
difficulty I'm having is sorting out the unfamiliar names. I'll start
watching the lectures on The Persian Empire later this week; maybe that
will help.
So, I'll count Empire of the Mind for the
week in which I finish it. Meanwhile, I need to cast back and pick out
two easy reads to make up for my slow pace during the first two weeks. I
should fulfill my promise to Miss H. and Miss R. to read more of the Anne of Green Gables
books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, it should be fairly easy to follow
through on my promise to them and to log two more titles in the Canadian authors sub-challenge. In spite of having read lots of
books as a child, Anne of Green Gables was not among them. Perhaps the books will be better than the made for television dramatizations.
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