Six-Month Check Up

How have I done on my 2008 reading resolutions? Fifteen down, eleven to go. Ignore the fact that four of those remaining eleven are about forty hours each. So ... not bad.

Check

KJV Bible: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Proverbs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, II Chronicles, Ezra
Iliad, by Homer
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (because Soobie reads it in The Mennyms)
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
All’s Well That Ends Well
Merchant of Venice
Two Gentlemen of Verona

Not Check

Rest of the KJV Bible
Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
The Brothers K, by Feodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby, by John Fitzgerald
Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott
The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy Sayers
Brave New World, by Adolph Huxley
Antony and Cleopatra
Comedy of Errors

2 comments:

~Kathleen said...

Very impressed at the line up. I really should start reading new things and stop with all this computer time. =) But I'll definately be watching this blog! Keep it up, Noel!!
God Bless.

Noël De Vries said...

Thanks for stopping by, Kathleen! Browse the "Never Jam Today Book Reviews" on the sidebar for recommendations. Although I'm sure Robbie will be sending you a List. :)