Preliminary school year plans!

On the 30th of August, I'll be shipping out and heading back to school for my senior year. I don't want to turn this project into a rigid regimen or anything (which would probably take the fun out of it), but at the same time, I need some sort of structure in order to get myself out of this mess of unread books.

So after some quick deliberating, I came up with a tentative goal :

I'm going to read at least one book per week throughout the school year.

Since I start quivering in my boots at the thought of reading so much during a time overflowing with homework, I also added a few clauses (let's call them pansy clauses):

1. This rule does not apply to midterm week or finals week and/or the week preceding finals week.
2. It is okay to miss a week or two because things come up.
3. I am not to beat myself up if I miss a week.

Accomplishing this goal will require me to read about 17-20 books between now and December 31 (yay!), and I'm itching to choose which books to bring to school with me. I just have to make myself pick books I can actually read in about 7 hours, which is probably all I'll have per week! Thaaat should be interesting.

I'm having a hard time reading at the moment. I feel like an utter failure. The books I have left at Jon's are all either too long to read at the moment (the likes of Anna Karenina and Atlas Shrugged) or they require too much thought to be able to get through them quickly. Since today is my last day of work, and tomorrow is Jon's, we're about to start 10ish days of relaxing and fun and road trips, not to mention that his 21st birthday is Wednesday. Needless to say, I will not be having a lot of reading time until I get to school.

The book I really have been wanting to read is The Jane Austen Book Club, but when I bought it (for $1!) I wanted to wait to read it until I'd read all of Austen's novels. Well...after a summer of almost solely Austen, I'm pretty sick of her (don't shoot me!), so I'm saving her remaining novels until later. But I still want to read a fluffy, comfortable, feel-good book about her books! Maybe I'll just read it anyway. Who knows.

Also, Le Morte is being chipped away at. The Slaugherhouse and Emma posts will be updated. That is all.