I haven't yet made any kind of report on the books I've been reading this year, but I'm making good progress on both my book challenges for this year. These are presented in random order (certainly not the order in which I read them).

1. The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. I read this because I'd never read it, and I wanted to read it as ( Read more... )

Last week was an odd week. The long weekend was great, but there was a big move of servers to a new datacenter at work thing that ended up having a big impact on my day job. The primary server that hosts VIREO (the administrative tool I use to manage uploaded theses/dissertations) had some issue with the datacenter move, so they reloaded all our ( Read more... )

I got the idea for this from this link to a reader's blog (which was linked from the Half Price Books FB page). It's a simple challege. Between now and June, read 8 classic books in 8 different categories. One of my goals this year has been to read a lot more of The Classics. Sure, there may be different ways of interpreting what is meant by The ( Read more... )