A revision
I'm swamped with books to read, & recently I stopped marginalia after reading a book that had marginalia: it constricted my reading comprehension because someone else's thoughts coexisted with mine and contaminated my understanding of the same text. My withdrawal was quite abrupt, so I needed a separate book to write about the text, a reading notebook; if you wish. It's a more laborious process than marginalia, writing with pen and paper & noting page numbers, but all for the sake of a future reader who may not wish to muddle their reading with my scribbles.
Thus I have to revise my older reading list, making it concise(One Greek play/poetry, 2 easier books, one harder book, one non-fiction) each week.
This Week:
1. The Aeneid - Virgil
2. History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire - Gibbon
3. Virginia Woolf's Diaries
4. Swann's Way - Proust(re-reading)
5. The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf
I have noticed that in stream of consciousness writings like Proust's In Search of Lost Time, it is much easier to forget what one wants to remember, similar to Ullysus. I have to reread them all.