November 15th 2006

So, I lied. I'm not reading Madam Bovary OR Notes From the Underground. And I have reasons too!

Madam Bovary felt really passive, I didn't even get to part two, which I'm sure would have been better since Mm. Bovary would have started to have her affairs and all, but I couldn't take the passive voice! It was so horrible! I'm guessing it has to do with the translation (it's originally in French) So I've decided that when I either a) find a different/better translation or b) get good enough in French to read it the way its supposed to be (I like this idea) then I'll read it again.

Notes was too hard. Honestly I struggled through all that I read of it, maybe ten pages. It was very college level. Again, that could have been the Translation, but I doubt it. It was rather hard, which means I need to get better at reading so I CAN read it!

But what is there on my list for now? Well, I've picked up Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and The Brothers Karamazov. I like Dostoevsky, So I'm trying to get as much of him in as possible. If I read 100 pages a day I'll be done in 8 days! (That's a lot of work!) But I'm reading Dr. Faustus first, and it seems rather easy though it is very...shakespeare? Which isn't true, that's the only thing I have to compare it too. We'll see when I'm done.

I'd really like to speed through BK, but I doubt I will....Small font, and I'm such a procrastinator too. I'll try though, because It's fun to know you've gotten x amount of pages in a book, or when your done! It feels like there is a whole world behind me that I've just read. Amazing.

Ah...Bon Soir.