It is really hard to believe that April is almost over! Where is time going these days?I had a pretty good week in terms of reading. I am still in the middle of the three books at left. While I did my post for The Count of Monte Cristo and the Classics Circuit on Friday, I still have a little left to finish. It is a phenomenal novel and I think i just bit off a little more than I could chew doing it along with a few other things.
I am also still working on the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories. They have fallen by the wayside in the last week as I have been chipping away at the two big novels, but I really want to get through them by the end of the month.
The Brothers Karamazov has been a pleasant surprise and my last post over the 4th part and my feelings about the book as a whole will be posted on Thursday. I will be glad to wrap up all of these books. I find it hard to concentrate on so many different books at once. My mind is going all different directions as I read them! At least with reading the short stories I can settle in with one story in one quick sitting and not be bothered.
I did really enjoy the read-along and would love to do more of them in the future. It makes reading the harder books a little easier, since I almost feel like I have to get posts up to meet my commitment. Odd, isn't it? I did join a Paradise Lost read-along with Rebecca Reads. Paradise Lost is another title that intimidates me, so I hope to get through it unscathed. Speaking if intimidating titles, what books scare you off??
Goals for this week are to finish the three books I have in progress: The Brothers Karamazov, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Happy Reading!
I hope you finish all your books!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of books that scare me - the Brothers K is one of them! Or most books by Russian authors, because I've tended to have bad experiences, sadly. :/
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're liking Count. I really hated that book. :(
I have to admit that most books labelled a "classic" scare me off, I'm still figuring out why that is, since I usually enjoy reading them when I finally dare to. Recently, I started reading Anna Karenina and that books has been sitting on my shelves for years. That definitely was one of the scariest books, to me.
ReplyDeleteYou have a wonderful and ambitious focus here. Glad to see you have covered several that I have read as well including The Count of Monte Cristo.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine reading so many complicated books at the same time! My hat's off to you! I loved how The Brothers Karamazov picked up, and I, too, finished it. We'll have a lot to talk about Thursday, spoilers be d..med! I loved The Count of Monte Cristo, and I'd like to read The Three Muketeers sometime. Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed the readalong as well and am considering joining the Paradise Lost one. We'll see if BK has completely drained me, though!
ReplyDeleteWooo! Keep it up Allie! :)
ReplyDeleteMayb I should have read Dumas instead of Zola for the Classics Circuit. ::sigh:: I think I would have appreciated the swashbuckling more than what I did read.
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