In the interests of getting my booklist up to date, everything pre-September is below, with notes as-is. 'ware incomplete thoughts and cryptic notes.

A reread of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande) (2009) which has become indirectly relevant to my professional interests.

Peter Pan (or, Peter and Wendy) (J. M. Barrie ( Read more... )

After nearly six months, I have finished Les Miserables! On my original "before the end of June" timetable, even.

Still absorbing the ending - Marius, don't give in to the blackmailer, silly man - but feel free to kick off discussion in comments ( Read more... )

For reasons which don't need exploring at this juncture, I am trying to finish the last 300-odd pages of the Brick by, say, next Friday. Book four - Les Amis, Marius, Marius moping after Cosette, Eponine's death, digressions into the inevitable progress of history from darkness to light - was such a drag that I deliberately took a break before ( Read more... )

I finished the second... section? Book? ...of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (1862), continuing to switch between the Brick and the Gutenberg translation as appropriate. Hugo is not writing in the 20th century novel format, he is expounding his feelings in narrative format. So one reads ( about dolls, and femininity, and convents, and other things too. Note that all the quotes are from the Gutenberg translation. )

For the holidays, I asked for and received epub copies of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House novels (1932 - 1943), most of which I reread over the first half of January. They have held up surprisingly well. I was worried about Little House on the Prairie, one of my favorites, where the Ingalls family tries to establish a claim on Native American ( Read more... )