I am officially on hiatus from this book project due to grad school. It's really a shame, especially since I am mid-LOTR series (30 pages from the end of the first book). I'm hoping that between class and nannying I'll have a little time to finish up the Fellowship. Then it will be only a couple of weeks before I can resume with The Two Towers, which is slightly shorter (yay!) My goal is to finish up this series by the end of summer.
I also have to find a thrilling vacation book to take on the plane with me. Our family vacation is coming up and since we will be flying across the country, I've decided I had better use that time to read a good book. Hopefully something exciting and not something that involves intense concentration (read as: I am not bringing LOTR or War and Peace on vacation with me...and ESPECIALLY not War and Peace because it is heavy). I do have the Life of Pi sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me, so I'll have to preview that one to make sure it'll keep my interest for 5 hours straight, or find a different one from the list.
My friend and I have worked on revising this list to accommodate our own tastes. We've added a few books that we feel should be on the list (I'm not sure how many as of yet) and have decided that if a certain book is REALLY not working, we can move on to another one (read as: I will probably not read Dickens and she will not be reading Steinbeck). I'm still really excited about this even though I a) am burnt out from reading about how kids learn to read and spell, and b) have no time to actually read for pleasure.
See you July 1st, when class is over!
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