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I'll be working on some ongoing, open-ended challenges in my other GR groups. The only time-limited challenge I have planned for next year is the Back to the Classics challenge, hosted annually at Karen's Books and Chocolate blog (probably - I believe the categories change a little bit each year, so I can't really plan for this one yet).
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Here's to another great year of books Beth!
Here's my list of plays to read in 2018: Henry V (planning to read & see this at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival between February & October - read in Jan/Feb?)
Snow in Midsummer (also this one)
Love's Labour's Lost (and maybe this one, also at OSF)
I'd like to read more of the unread books I actually own, so these two as well:
Cymbeline
Troilus and Cressida
Back to the Classics Challenge 2018 is up: https://karensbooksandchocolate.blogs...
My tentative list:
1. A 19th century classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899.
On Liberty with Joan
2. A 20th century classic - any book published between 1900 and 1968. Just like last year, all books MUST have been published at least 50 years ago to qualify. The only exception is books written at least 50 years ago, but published later, such as posthumous publications.
probably The Man in the High Castle
3. A classic by a woman author.
Orlando or Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil?
4. A classic in translation. Any book originally written published in a language other than your native language. Feel free to read the book in your language or the original language. (You can also read books in translation for any of the other categories). Modern translations are acceptable as long as the original work fits the guidelines for publications as explained in the challenge rules.
Njal's Saga finished 2/1/2018 & reviewed!
5. A children's classic. Indulge your inner child and read that classic that you somehow missed years ago. Short stories are fine, but it must be a complete volume. Picture books don't count!
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (from the public library)
6. A classic crime story, fiction or non-fiction. This can be a true crime story, mystery, detective novel, spy novel, etc., as long as a crime is an integral part of the story and it was published at least 50 years ago. Examples include The 39 Steps, Strangers on a Train, In Cold Blood, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, etc. The Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones list is an excellent source for suggestions.
The Moonstone
7. A classic travel or journey narrative, fiction or non-fiction. A journey should be a major plot point, i.e., The Hobbit, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Kon-Tiki, Travels with Charley, etc.
The Aeneid (planned for April/May)
8. A classic with a single-word title. No articles please! Proper names are fine -- Emma, Germinal, Middlemarch, Kidnapped, etc.).
Utopia
9. A classic with a color in the title. The Woman in White; Anne of Green Gables; The Red and the Black, and so on.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? (reread) (planned for November/December)
10. A classic by an author that's new to you. Choose an author you've never read before.
?
11. A classic that scares you. Is there a classic you've been putting off forever? A really long book which intimidates you because of its sheer length? Now's the time to read it, and hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised!
City of God with a book group from January to March. I've read part of this one but I might not finish this. I might pick something else.
12. Re-read a favorite classic. Like me, you probably have a lot of favorites -- choose one and read it again, then tell us why you love it so much.
The Iliad (planned for June; I want to wait until I've read The Aeneid)
Looks like a great challenge, Beth
I'm signed up for Bout of Books (boutofbooks.blogspot.com) January 8-14. My first Bout of Books was in August of last year. The first Twitter chat was today, I participated for a while but at one point - when I was trying to answer question 5, I think - it stopped sending my tweets. I'm not sure why, but it wasn't because I was missing the #boutofbooks hashtag, and it wasn't because of length - I tried to send several but they were all within the character limit.
Day 1 progress: read March: Book One (128 pages) and started Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities on audio.
my tweet for today's challenge describe yourself #insixwords https://twitter.com/bethannagould/sta...
Bout of Books - Tuesday, 1/9Day 2 progress: I started Inside Job last night, after I was off the internet, and finished it this morning; I'm not sure how much I read yesterday. (99 pages)
Alias Grace started. 231 pages read before midnight.
Finished St. Augustine's treatise on the city of God, abridged by F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock (which I began before the readathon, on 1/5) and started vol. 1 of the unabridged edition.
total so far:
March: Book One 128 pgs
68-111 of St. Augustine's treatise on the city of God, abridged by F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock 43 pgs (finished Tuesday)
The City of God Volume One 37 pages
Inside Job 99 pgs
Alias Grace 231 pgs
538 pgs read
Today's challenge: share your 2018 reading goals
I probably have too many; but here are the year-long challenges I've joined:
- The Back to the Classics Challenge, message 4 above
- Cleaning Out the TBR Closet - reading books that have been on my TBR list for more than a year
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- SFBC Owned Books Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- NBRC 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This one expires in May (the deadline is a year from start date), and I've only read 6 books since I started, so I will probably start Round 2 in May 2018 and see how many I read after that.
Some more general goals:
- Henry V and Snow in Midsummer - Oregon Shakespeare Festival plays 2018
- I want to reread The Iliad and have some books planned to go with it: (Troilus and Cressida, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, War and the Iliad, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (I'll get these from the library)
- I want to read more of the contemporary sf books on my TBR list -- but I don't own most of them, and I want to focus on the books I own first, so I'll have to figure out how to fit this in.
- group reads planned: The Aeneid, On Liberty (All About Books) / Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, The Man in the High Castle, The Fifth Season (SciFi & Fantasy Book Club) and the books for the Well-Educated Mind History Group: City of God (Ecclesiastical History of the English People is next on our list, but I'll almost certainly skip it) The Prince,Utopia, Two Treatises of Government... I'm not sure how many we'll read this year as a group, but I'll try to keep up (mostly).
Bout of Books - Wednesday, 1/10Forgot to mention that I started the audiobook of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities on Monday. I'm not sure if I'll finish it during the readathon.
Day 3 challenge: book spine rainbow
posted to Twitter
https://twitter.com/bethannagould/sta...
reading progress for Wednesday: 231-324 of Alias Grace - 94 pgs
Bout of Books: Thursday, 1/11Day 4 challenge: bookish favorites
"ALL THE FAVORITES!
We all have our bookish favorites so why don't we share? Share with us! Here's a list to get you started. Answer as many or as few as you like.
Audiobook narrator
Illustrator
Series
Bookish blog..."
Audiobook narrator: This is a hard one, because most of the audiobooks I've listened to have been read by different narrators. But Simon Prebble (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories),
Scott Brick (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America) and Steven Crossley(To Say Nothing of the Dog) are all amazing.
Illustrator: Dave McKean and Charles Vess maybe? But I have a small sample size for this one. (If Tolkien illustrators count: Alan Lee, Anke Eissmann, Jenny Dolfen, Marya Filatova [aka filat]).
Series: the Discworld series and Sandman
Bookish blog: - One of my friends on GR, Cleo, has a blog (http://cleoclassical.blogspot.com/) with some great posts, but I don't follow it as regularly as I follow GoodReads. - AskMiddleEarth was a great tumblr once upon a time, but it hasn't been updated since 2015. - I used to follow University of Arda (also a tumblr, also Tolkien-related) which seems to be defunct since 2016.
Book to movie adaptation: Of Mice and Men; Hogfather; Sophie's Choice (I didn't finish the book, which I thought was incredibly tedious, but the movie was really powerful); Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (the BBC adaptation - this one is a TV series).
Favorite 19th century novels: Bleak House, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, or maybe The Woman in White
favorite works of ancient literature: The Odyssey, Lysistrata, The Bacchae, The Histories, History of the Peloponnesian War. I've always preferred The Odyssey to The Iliad, but I want to reread both eventually.
favorite works of medieval literature: Beowulf the Seamus Heaney translation. I haven't read very much medieval literature though.
favorite science fiction novels: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Left Hand of Darkness, Aurora, Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
favorite fantasy novels: The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion (not a novel, obviously, but it has to go somewhere), The Once and Future King, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Spindle's End, the Alice books, The King of Elfland's Daughter. In that order. I think.
favorite short story collections: The Martian Chronicles and Cosmicomics.Ficciones was impressive... but for some reason, it just wasn't as engaging as Cosmicomics.
favorite novellas: The Willows, Of Mice and Men, Great Work of Time
Ok, so that is definitely not ALL the favorites. There are some I haven't listed. Maybe I will update this message later.
324-460 of Alias Grace Finished! An excellent book! I gave it 4 starsreading progress for Thursday: 136 pages
I want to read something for AAB's current theme of myths and legends, but I can't pick up my library holds yet. So I've found two books that will work for this theme: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore which is available on LibriVox and Rostam: Tales of Love & War from Persia's Book of Kings which is already on my list for this year. I'll start one or the other today or tomorrow, I think.
I hope you enjoy the myths and legends collections, Beth!
Thanks Heather!I don't know why I didn't read more this afternoon, but I'll try to make up for it tonight. I'll finish The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore soon.
8pm finished! my favorite quotes are in my status updates:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
reading progress for Friday: 55-71 of City of GodThe Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore 128 pages, finished
Chocolat 20 pages
total for Friday: 169 pages
for Bout of Books: 538+136+169= 674 pgs total
Sunday, 1/14 already! progress for Saturday: p 20-281 of Chocolat (261 pages), 71-82 (11 pages) of The City of God Volume One (I'm not sure if that's the right edition - I'm reading the Gutenberg etext) and 40 pages of Rostam: Tales of Love & War from Persia's Book of Kings
my favorite quotes are in my status updates:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
pages read for Saturday: 311
for Bout of Books: 674 + 311 = 985 total so far
my contribution to today's (Sunday's) challenge - write a review
my review of March: Book One:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I still haven't written reviews for the last several books I've read. I'll probably write a few in the coming week though.
1/15, Bout of Books wrap up read on Sunday:
Chocolat 281-306 = 25 pgs (finished)
March: Book Two 192 pgs (finished)
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities 152 pgs (audio) (finished)
Rostam: Tales of Love & War from Persia's Book of Kings 40-63 = 23
392 pgs
TOTAL pages for Bout of Books: 1377 pages (I'll check this later)
Total books started and finished: 6
books started:
challenges completed: 4
adding some future group reads so I don't forget AAB:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
May - On Liberty All About Books w/ Joan
May - starting The Aeneid with Leslie & others
SFBC:
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch March 15
The Man in the High Castle April 15
The Fifth Season April 15 - I don't have this one yet though, so I might have to skip it.
I've written some more reviews:St. Augustine's treatise on the city of God, abridged by F.R. Montgomery Hitchcock
review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chocolat
review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World 1/17/2018
review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Radio Dramatization of Tales from the Perilous Realm listened to
review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
During AAB's readathon (Friday-Sunday) I finished reading The Science of Discworld and listened to Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Longitude was great, I recommend it.
I really enjoyed The Science of Discworld but I'm going to wait to read the other volumes in the series, since I want to get caught up on some other series first.
My dad liked Longitude as well - I guess that I should read it!
The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien 2/20/2018review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I should have a review of Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World up soon.
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World finished 2/21/2018review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Putting this here so I remember it - I have a buddy read in the SciFi & Fantasy Book Club planned for the 2nd week of March (with group member Meredith).Reading The Years of Rice and Salt (which I have already started, but putting it on hold for now).
reviews of The Stars Are Legion (sf, space opera)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
Seven Surrenders (sequel to Too Like the Lightning)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I haven't been updating this thread much, but I'll use this post to keep track of reading progress for Bout of Books 22. Monday:
The Aeneid pages 135-142 that's not much, but I'll definitely read more next time.
Saturday readingThe Prince 52-62
One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 350-435
Sunday reading & wrap upThe Prince 61-71 finished
I'll write a review later
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East 9` pages (unfinished)
Axis 101 pages
One Woman's War: Da (Mother) the Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseyni Paperback 435-447 = 12 pages
Wrap up
I didn't set goals this time. I had planned to read more from Friday to Sunday, though! Well, maybe next weekend... but I did make some progress on the books I was reading before the readathon.
I'm going to check out other participants' wrap up posts after I link my own (this comment).
Bout of Books 23 Day 1 challenge: Introduce yourself #insixwords https://twitter.com/bethannagould/sta... (finally got around to this, just in time)
Bout of Books:Today's challenge and yesterday's reading
Bout of Books Day 2 challenge:
"Tell the plot of a book (recent read, favorite, whatever) with emojis."
This is The Silmarillion:
https://twitter.com/bethannagould/sta...
I had fun with this one.
reading progress for Monday, Day 1
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege 193-243 = 50
The Owl Service audio, 2 hrs
The Lindisfarne Gospels 26
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 114
pages read: 170 + 2 hrs audio
Bout of Books Day 3 challenge & reading progress: Who are your favorite literary bad guys? Can be a villain, a not-so-good-guy, or anti-hero.
Ooh, I like this one. I ended up picking 4 books (or 5, I guess, sort of).
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Strange & Norrell - Both main characters qualify as antiheroes. Strange is more the romantic, rebellious type of antihero (especially after (view spoiler). Lord Byron, at one point, says of Strange: "Who would not blot out the sun sometimes? The difference is that when one is a magician, one can actually do it."
Norrell is a different type of antihero, too resentful and petty to be a “nice” hero and lacking the courage/passion to be a Byronic hero. He’s still one of my favorite characters — the narrative voice of the book makes him very enjoyable to read about.
"The first shall pass his life alone, he shall be his own gaoler;
The second shall tread lonely roads, the storm above his head, seeking a dark tower upon a high hillside…"
"'And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.'
This was not very polite."
The Once and Future King
The Orkney brothers, of course, are clearly antiheroes (except the straightforwardly heroic Gareth). Mordred and Gawain have always been some of my favorites. Most of my favorite scenes in the book are about them, probably.
"Gawain had hardly been the sort of person you thought of as a writer… Indeed it would have seemed more natural if he had been illiterate, like most of the others. Yet here, instead of the spiky Gothic then in use, was the lovely old Gaelic minuscule, as neat and round and small as when he had learned it from some ancient saint in dim Dunlothian. He had written so infrequently since, that the art had retained its beauty… He had carried this innocent precision, these dainty demoted cusps, through misery and passion to old age."
The Lord of the Rings
Gollum — Obviously. Not quite my favorite character in LotR, but certainly high on the list (I would have to say Sam, then Gollum, and then I think Faramir).
"Why, even Gollum might be good in a tale, better than he is to have by you, anyway. And he used to like tales himself once, by his own account. I wonder if he thinks he’s the hero or the villain?"
"And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of the gloom ahead. Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing heavy. In his lap lay Frodo's head, drowned in sleep; upon his white forehead lay one of Sam's brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master's breast. Peace was in both their faces.
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. The gleam faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A spasm of pain seemed to twist him, and he turned away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if engaged in some interior debate. Then he came back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand, very cautiously he touched Frodo's knee--but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing."
The Children of Húrin & The Silmarillion
Turin - I think my favorite thing about Turin is that he’s sort of a perfect storm of the worst qualities of the Three Houses of the Edain. He has the stubborn isolationism of the Haladin, the impulsiveness of the folk of Hador, and the reflective/cynical/brooding tendencies of the Beorings (cf. Morwen, Andreth). He might do ok with just one of these qualities, but instead he has all of them... I should have more to say about this, but instead I’m just going to link to
"http://lintamande.tumblr.com/post/105... post.
[Especially for this bit:”Could he have freely chosen to return to Doriath? Yes, in the sense that he made the decision freely without Morgoth directly altering his mind. No, in the sense that the sort of person who was content to remain in Doriath would have been a completely different person. (And would have never existed, since his father would have been the sort of person content to remain in Gondolin…)”]
Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of Húrin Thalion is a great deed; and though Morgoth slay the doer he cannot make the deed not to have been. Even the Lords of the West will honour it; and is it not written into the history of Arda, which neither Morgoth nor Manwë can unwrite?” (also: that entire scene)
The Silmarillion
Maedhros!!! I'm so not over him, after all these years. I’d have to call him an anti villain (the opposite of an antihero) on the grounds that Feanor’s sons mostly end up acting in opposition to the protagonists (Celegorm & Curufin against Beren/Luthien, and then Maedhros & Maglor against Elwing). Anyway, Maedhros’s character arc was probably my favorite thing in The Silmarillion on my first reading. (I didn’t appreciate the rest of it properly until the 2nd and 3rd time around). He is still probably my favorite. Huh, I think I’ve managed to accidentally write up this list in ascending order of how much I love the characters.
"Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead."
and of course:
(view spoiler)
reading progress Tuesday, day 2
If on a winter’s night a traveler pg 115-260 = 145
The Owl Service 3:00—4:40 = 1 hr, 40 min
total for Tues: 145 print pages + 1 hr, 40 min audio
Bout of Books Day 4 (see message 34 for yesterday's post, the link didn't get posted)
reading progress for Wednesday:
The Owl Service — 4:40-4:52 12 minutes of audio. finished shortly after midnight (Wednesday morning)
The Lindisfarne Gospels 27-32 = 5 pgs
Mort 121 pgs
Vortex 6 hrs
total for Wed: 125 pgs + 6 hrs, 12 min audio
update: my response to today's challenge
Well, my responses the last 2 challenges have prominently featured Tolkien, so I think I'll go with:
Ithilien:
Here Spring was already busy about them: fronds pierced moss and mould, larches were green-fingered, small flowers were opening in the turf, birds were singing. Ithilien, the garden of Gondor now desolat,e kept still a disheveled dryad loveliness.
South and west it looked towards the warm lower vales of Anduin, shielded from the east by the Ephel Dúath and yet not under the mountain-shadow, protected from the north by the Emyn Muil, open to the southern airs and the moist winds from the Sea far away. Many great trees grew there, planted long ago, falling into untended age amid a riot of careless descendants; and groves and thickets there were of tamarisk and pungent terebinth, of olive and of bay; and there were junipers and myrtles; and thymes that grew in bushes, or with their woody creeping stems mantled in deep tapestries the hidden stones; sages of many kinds putting forth blue flowers, or red, or
pale green; and marjorams and new-sprouting parsleys, and many herbs of forms and scents beyond the garden-lore of Sam. The grots and rocky walls were already starred with saxifrages and stonecrops. Primeroles and anemones were awake in the filbert-brakes; and asphodel and many lily-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass: deep green grass beside the pools, where falling streams halted in cool hollows on their journey down to Anduin.
I can't quite decide between Rivendell and Lothlorien, so I guess both. I think I liked Lothlorien better the first time I read LotR, but on the other hand:
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness...
And after that I'd go to the Shire. I'm not sure if I have a favorite quote for that one.
And I'd like to go somewhere in First Age Beleriand, but I can't quite decide where.
Non-Tolkien settings:
The Library of Dream from The Sandman comics
Spindle's End the land of the Gig - the cosiest setting I've mentioned so far except for the Shire and Rivendell.
"The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like sticky plaster-dust. (House-cleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, especially in a cheerful household - magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself -- but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory.)"
York Minster (inspired by Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
"And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr Norrell’s chusing that particular place will be lost upon them. They must understand that in an old Cathedral town the great old church is not one building among many; it is the building - different from all others in scale, beauty, and solemnity. Even in modern times when an old Cathedral town may have provided itself with all the elegant appurtenances of civic buildings, assembly and meeting rooms (and York was well-stocked with these) the Cathedral rises above them - a witness to the devotion of our forefathers. It is as if the town contains within itself something larger than itself. When going about ones business in the muddle of narrow streets one is sure to lose sight of the Cathedral, but then the town will open out and suddenly it is there, many times taller and many times larger than any other building, and one realizes that one has reached the heart of the town and that all streets and lanes have in some way led here, to a place of mysteries much deeper than any Mr Norrell knew of."
I *have* been to Canterbury Cathedral, though.
Bout of Books Day 5Thursday reading progress:
The Lindisfarne Gospels 32-96 finished
Mort 121-242 finished
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad 75 pgs
Vortex 2 1/2 hrs (up to hour 8:30)
Day 4 Challenge: Bookish Playlist
What's a song that always reminds you of a certain book? Is it something the characters listen to? Do the lyrics remind you of the plot? Make a list of at least three songs and match them each with a book. Participants could explain their reasoning in greater depth in the form of a blog or twitter thread, show pictures of the books and caption with the song titles in an Instagram post, or even make a playlist on Spotify or YouTube and share it.
1. Beren and Lúthien - "Black is the Color" - This one's pretty self explanatory.
lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/black-is-t...
youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtGvU... (John Jacob Niles) (there are many versions, of course)
2. Blackmore’s Night - "Where Are We Going From Here" —The Silmarillion. Could be several characters, but what with the sea and the star it just says Elwing to me. I've always liked Elwing's story, and obviously having Maedhros as my *favorite* Silmarillion character makes the whole thing extra depressing.
Still I wish on a star
Come back wherever you are
Oh, the snow was falling
Colder since I’ve been alone
lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/black...
youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjpL...
Friday reading progress: finished Vortex (approx. 2 hrs of audio)
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad 26 pgs, finished
Farmer Giles of Ham to pg 108
total for Friday: 134 pgs + 2 hrs audio
Saturday reading progressThe Top 500 Poems 326-340 14 pgs
Farmer Giles of Ham 108-127, finished
total: 19+14 = 33
Sunday reading progressThe Silmarillion (reread) to pg 88
total for Sunday: 88
Books read for the readathon: 7 completed
challenges completed: days 1-5
favorite challenge: probably the literary villains/antiheroes question!
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