The Reading List

I finally finished Middlemarch, one of the many books on my long reading list. At about 950 pages, I think I started with the hard stuff. I certainly hope so.

Then yesterday I had to stop plodding through the PhD reading list to take a day to read The Blue Parakeet, a popular-market non-fiction book that explores how we read the Bible. The syllabus for the class I teach in the fall is due today, and I was thinking of changing out an academic book on hermeneutics for this more-accessible one. Which I ended up choosing to do. Syllabus done, now back to reading (after I hit the gym).

Next on the list: The Great Gatsby. It's looking like a breeze at less than 300 pages!