January 21st, 2007

My reading habits have been very ecstatic. Haven't gotten very far in House of Leaves, though I do like it. One of the narrators bugs the heck out of me though because he's too introspective and I can't concentrate on his one page if not longer run on sentences.

And the books for my research paper, The Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, need to be finished.

But I really want to break from them. In honesty I probably won't finish The Trials of Oscar Wilde, instead skim it so I can finish my research paper; but I will finish The Secret life of OW. Seeing as I bought that book, I might as well finish it.

But I want to read some fiction, and something I can probably get through (with a good amount of forcefulness on my part) quickly. So I've chosen Camille (The lady of the Camellias) by Dumas. A romance, of all things! I was hoping to read this tale in French, but I can't wait four years to be good enough and French to understand it, so I'm left reading the English translation...


Hopefully I'll [i]really[/i] finish a book sometime soon. I haven't even finished my second read through lolita.