Books Progress

Yesterday I finished The Star Wars Trilogy, which still had 201 pages left in it.  I'm now on page 7 of The Casual Vacancy, meaning that I read 208 pages yesterday.  This leaves me with 5,672 pages left on the year, and 88 days in which to do it.  As such, I must read an average of 64.46 (rounded up to 65) pages per day for the rest of the year.  Despite reading 142 pages extra yesterday, my average amount of pages left has only waned by 1.  Still, moving right along!

The Star Wars Trilogy was really a great adaptation of the movies.  It stayed very true to them (one of the reasons it was such a quick read, despite its 720 pages), adding only a few scenes, and cutting nothing out.  Some of the phrasing was different, what with the books coming out first.  For example, when Leia tells Han that she loves him when he's going into the carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back, Han merely kisses her on the forehead rather than saying "I know."  In Return of the Jedi, when Han finally tells Leia that he loves her, Leia responds with "I know."

It was really a great book, and I'd recommend it to any Sci-Fi fans, Star Wars fans, or general fans of books.  As I showed earlier, the book itself is freaking beautiful.

I just started The Casual Vacancy last night before going to bed.  It kills me to not be "reading" something, even if it's just because I finish one book and am going to start the next one the following day.  So I read the first chapter, and that was it.

Well, seeing as I still need to read 65 pages today, I'm going to get down to business!

Finished Reading
The Star Wars Trilogy by George Lucas

Currently Reading
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (on page 7 of 503)

To-Read
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (272 pages)
The Traitor Queen by Trudi Canavan (509 pages)
Texas A&M: Traditions and Spirit by Carolyn Bible (80 pages)
Brave New World Aldous Huxley (259 pages)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (261 pages)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (528 pages)
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1037 pages)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (190 pages)
Orientalism by Edward W. Said (395 pages)
Notes from the Underground, The Double and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (464 pages)
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (845 pages)
On Writing Well by William Knowlton Zinsser (336 pages)