The Project - A Book for Every Day

[andsoshemovedon]

 Okay, kidlets.  This is the idea.  I have decided that this summer I will try to read (or at the very least, make significant progress on) one novel every day.  Also, that each of these novels should be on the list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (A post about this is below, somewhere...).  This will be very possible for all of May, and possibly

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[andsoshemovedon]

1. well, IF you feel that having dinner in an entire HOUSE with only about 10 other people will not endanger our lives too much, you are still invited to dinner on Saturday. But, you know, boo for not conference-going.
2. Yay cinnamon buns!
3. I can definitely read that. I had the (idiotic) misfortune of going to the library sans list today, so I had to make my best guesses about what I half-remembered was on it, so I ended up with two James Bond books (see other post) only one which was on the list (there are 13 in the series, and only two on the list, so...odds were against me), a John Grisham that didn't make it, among many that did, and I think a PD James that also didn't make it (I have pathetically few 'read' checkmarks in the Crime section, so I'm kinda-sorta starting there). I did end up with a Dostoevsky (The Idiot - how fitting) that I should enjoy. I have listened to about half of Crime and Punishment on CD (yay roadtrips!), and I'm still debating whether 'listening to' counts as 'reading,' if its unabridged and I didn't space out. If so, I can also check off Oliver Twist and Frankenstein. Woot.
4. That would be great, especially to find the classics and stuff that is either not at the public library or are perenially checked out.
5. Gravity is the force that all objects with mass both have and are subjected to; the strength of the attraction between any massed objects is directly proportionate to their mass. Now, the specific gravity of any particular spot on Earth varies, infintesimally, depending on the density of what is directly below the surface. Geophysicists, like mine own father, can send lackeys out into the brush (okay, usually they end up going, too) to measure gravitational pull at various points on a line or grid, and then my dad assembles that data, using a computer program, into maps that he then analyses. The maps help (mostly) mining companies figure out whether its worth digging for oil, nickel, diamonds, or whatever else they're interested in. So, yeah. I would be a lackey in the brush. *thumbsup!*