Read 260 pages of Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole, which finished the book. A nice romantic story. This book had quite a journey getting to me.
Delivery problems: About two months ago I put in an inter library request for Letters from Skye. A couple of days later it went "in transit" and stayed there for two weeks. The librarian declared that copy lost and placed a hold on another copy, which also got lost in transit! The situation led to lots of comments about Letters lost in the mail. Finally got the book and enjoyed it.
As all this was going on the book cart I ordered arrived with no wheels. I just got a note that the wheels are with UPS in Hartford and should be delivered tomorrow afternoon. I digress...
Read 65 pages of The Occupation Trilogy by Patrick Modiano, which finished La Place de l'Étoile the first novella of the trilogy. I'll take a deep breath before I continue to the next one. These are very early works, written when he was in his early twenties. Lots of promise and he did get a whole lot better.
Read off and on all week I have been perusing
Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff. This is book of clever maps based on classic reading (Hamlet, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, and many others). It is mostly pictorial. There is an introduction, one page commentaries on the maps, and a brief list of suggested readings. There are about 26 pages of text in this 126 page book, but the maps are a delight to study and I spent a lot of time with this book. Not sure how to count the pages for the read-a-thon, but considering time spent I'm counting all 126 pages
Total for Sat, day 6: 325
Off and on all week(the map book) 126
Total so far: 1,405
For Sunday I will start another library book: either God Loves Haiti by Dimitry Elias Leger or The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian. (note chose the Haiti book because it's due sooner.)
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