Read All The Things: Day 11
Jun. 8th, 2012 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oulfisIt looks like I'm actually sticking with this pretty well!
I'm 70-some pages into Otis and Needleman; I've finished adding the Anglo-Saxons and the Anglo-Normans to the spreadsheet, and am now working my way through The Age of Chaucer. I'm listening to The Canterbury Tales on audiobook while I walk to campus (a silver lining for the melting-car debacle, I suppose) so I've made some progress pretty much every day since I started, even if it doesn't all show on the chart.
Speaking of the chart, here it is!
Bookkeeping notes: I decided to give myself more credit for the really big works; you can see here that Beowulf is now counting for 3 read works, rather than 1. This is based on the fact that Otis and Needleman devote three pages to describing the content of the poem-- by the same logic, The Canterbury Tales will count for 7 when I finally finish. So far those are the only two works that rated more than a page of description; I think it's a fair way to recognize that there's a difference between reading The Cuckoo Song and reading all the Canterbury Tales.
I read The Wanderer today, mostly because it shows up in my spreadsheet screencaps, and it was beautiful. So sad! This is exactly why I started this project: to read literature that is great, in all the fullest senses of the word, but which I would never have known of otherwise.
I'm only a couple hundred lines into Pearl and it's a very similar experience: kind of hard to get started, definitely something I wouldn't do if I wasn't getting "points" for it, but so rewarding.
So I'm happy.
I'm 70-some pages into Otis and Needleman; I've finished adding the Anglo-Saxons and the Anglo-Normans to the spreadsheet, and am now working my way through The Age of Chaucer. I'm listening to The Canterbury Tales on audiobook while I walk to campus (a silver lining for the melting-car debacle, I suppose) so I've made some progress pretty much every day since I started, even if it doesn't all show on the chart.
Speaking of the chart, here it is!
Bookkeeping notes: I decided to give myself more credit for the really big works; you can see here that Beowulf is now counting for 3 read works, rather than 1. This is based on the fact that Otis and Needleman devote three pages to describing the content of the poem-- by the same logic, The Canterbury Tales will count for 7 when I finally finish. So far those are the only two works that rated more than a page of description; I think it's a fair way to recognize that there's a difference between reading The Cuckoo Song and reading all the Canterbury Tales.
I read The Wanderer today, mostly because it shows up in my spreadsheet screencaps, and it was beautiful. So sad! This is exactly why I started this project: to read literature that is great, in all the fullest senses of the word, but which I would never have known of otherwise.
I'm only a couple hundred lines into Pearl and it's a very similar experience: kind of hard to get started, definitely something I wouldn't do if I wasn't getting "points" for it, but so rewarding.
So I'm happy.
