Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Linda's Pitiable Progress - Woe is Me

I'm so in AWE with everyone'e progress. Wow.

I've read only one book from my list so far - THE SECRET HISTORY (Donna Tartt), which I reviewed. MIDDLEMARCH is taking all my 100 effort. I don't think I can do MOBY DICK for awhile - I'll need something slim and quick and light after this Eliot tome.

I AM reading, though. I made a committment at New Year's to read and review a debut book (preferably) published by a small independent press and purchased from an Indy bookseller. I post the review the middle of the month on my blog. Just finished May's selection, so will dig in this weekend with book 3.

Peace, Linda
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9 comments:

  1. Emily CrossMay 6, 2009 at 11:54 PM

    Eh Linda - you think you're bad.

    I haven't even read ONE book since i started this thing . . .

    Well i haven't read ONE fiction book since i started.

    I've read plenty of academic books though . . :(

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  2. moonratMay 7, 2009 at 5:38 AM

    aw, guys, we have PLENTY of time!

    also, let me be the first to admit i've gone a little psycho with this.

    linda--as an indie press editor who specializes in debut fiction, have i mentioned you're one of my heroes? ;)

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  3. GoediMay 7, 2009 at 6:43 AM

    Two weeks (and a little) per book is a bit of a harsh pace. I recommend padding the list with the occasional poem, play, or short story. They're gaps, too, right?
    Or a new pie recipe...
    just saying

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  4. moonratMay 7, 2009 at 6:52 AM

    why did you have to go and bring up pie?

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  5. GoediMay 7, 2009 at 7:12 AM

    I figured it's not as involved as making your own foie gras and not quite as easy as cookies or buying ice cream. And it fills in the gaps...

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  6. LindaMay 7, 2009 at 6:51 PM

    I heart you guys.

    Thanks for reminding me life's not a contest - it's the day job sneaking in.

    Em, you've been running this show - our administrator extraordinaire! (are you a closet academic? I play a prof from 8-6)And yay for poems! And thanks Moonie - I'm all weepy. You know you're one of mine. Goedie, I read a recipe for rhubarb-strawberry pie - it was a very good recipe ;^)

    Off to Book 2 of Middlemarch. Peace, Linda

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  7. moonratMay 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM

    I gotta confess, Book II is going a little slower than Book I... all the medical jargon...

    I took a day off and read Jaye Wells's vampire urban fantasy in about a sitting and a half. Dang.

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  8. Emily CrossMay 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM

    Linda - administrator extraordinaire!

    Oh me likey that a lot :)

    Well, i'm a fulltime student doing me masters, if thats being an academic lol. . . .

    What are you a prof in linda?

    Did my dgree in psychology, and now doing masters in Human Resource management(don't ask me how that happened - i'm not business person at all!)

    I'm currently staring at my bedroom locker, middlemarch sitting all forlorn like.

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  9. LindaMay 9, 2009 at 9:48 AM

    Oooh, then I'll love Book II ;^)

    Emily, I teach pharmacy students about the health care system and health policy (I am a pharamcist), as well as run our PhD program in pharmaceutical health services research. So I'm on the other end of the desk. Good for you getting your Masters - combined with your psychology degree, you'll do a bang up job. I bet it helps in your writing, too!

    Haven't picked up MM since Tuesday. Too dang busy... Peace, Linda

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