Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Lifetime Reading Plan

I read this plan on the web, and I found that I had read almost all of what was on the list. There were only a few items left for me to read, and those are the dribs and drabs I've read since my last post. There are all quite good or interesting in some ways -- Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville; Hemingway's short stories, which I actually liked better than the novels; Hume's essay on Human Understanding; Emerson's essays, on topics such as history; Herodotus' Histories, which I read quite quickly; and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales, some of which touched on the Quakers, but which is primarily important as being an early American writer. I don't expect my pace to pick up, as I'm still on vacation....

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