Reading News

It's been far too long since I've listed the novels and plays I've been reading, so here they are!

The Defense (Vladimir Nabokov): 82%

A Passage to India (E.M. Forster): 89%

Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf): 97%

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne): 69%

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald): 74%

Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri): 93%

Why Not Me? (Al Franken): 72%

Einstein’s Dreams (Alan Lightman): 83%

Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain): 70%

Volpone (Ben Jonson): 71%

The Awakening (Kate Chopin): 62%

Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe): 46%

Endgame (Samuel Beckett): 56%

The Dumbwaiter (Harold Pinter): 61%

The Basement (Harold Pinter): 63%

Homecoming (Harold Pinter): 70%

The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard): 81%

Dogg’s Hamlet & Cahoot’s Macbeth (Tom Stoppard): 73%

Travesties (Tom Stoppard): 89%

Arcadia (Tom Stoppard): 90%

Shakespeare plays: (And no, I will not rate them because I'd rather not have Jared accuse me of blasphemy!)

Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest.

Excuses...

As the title suggests, this is yet another post explaining why I have not updated this site recently. To be honest, life has been rather boring lately; no overseas trips, no strange happenings at work, nothing at all out of the ordinary. This summer I've spent my time working, taking summer classes (which are now over, thankfully), and preparing for the SCE, the Senior Comprehensive Exam, a test all UCCS English majors must pass to graduate. It involves five hours of in-class essay writing next semester over five novels I am reading this summer. Fun!

My dad and I climbed Mt. Shavano on Saturday, a trip that proved painful and scary at times. I hope to post my customary trip report and photos within the next couple days.