Man, Beowulf totally ruined my 52 books in 52 weeks reading regiment (inspired by somebody... was it Revvy?). My first 3 weeks went pretty well, and I started falling slightly behind in the third one, but no sweat, right? Next on my list of (required) reading was Beowulf, some dumb poem about a guy who kills trolls and a dragon, it's only 3128 ( Read more... )

BOOQUES:
Down to the Dirt by Joel Hynes - Summer Book #3One of the best books I've read in a long time! It's kind of annoying to read the unconventional quotations (uses -Dialogue instead of "Dialogue" said Jim) and the Newfoundlander slang which carries throughout is alternatingly great and terrible. The stories themselves are awesome though. ( Read more... )

Well, so far so good. I've worked 3 days so far. 8 Hours a day, 8 weeks in summer, 8 5 days a week to go! Except I fully expect to take some of those weeks off. Just need to see which weeks have a long weekend and remember to work on those ( Read more... )