Reading Progress

Yesterday I read 109 pages, putting me in the middle of The Empire Strikes Back.  

One weird thing I'm noticing about the book is that Yoda is supposed to be blue.  I have a hard time picturing him as blue instead of greed.  It ends up looking a little bit more of a bluish tint of what he was in the movie to my internal eye.

Since I read 109 pages yesterday, I'm ahead of schedule on my reading goal for the year.  Subtracting the pages I've already read from the total (6399-386=6013), dividing by the new number of days (6013/90), means that I must now average 66.81 pages a day for the next 90 days.

Of course my initial count didn't include the number of pages I had already read in The Star Wars Trilogy.  As of yesterday with that taken out, I needed to read 67.28 pages a day for the 91 days.

In fact, I hope to remain ahead of schedule as long as I can.  I have a feeling that I'll need it for the books further in.  Orientalism is more of an academic text, and bound to be a little denser.  Dostoevsky is one of my favorite authors, but tends to require a little bit of extra care taken to understand what's going on.  (That's not a bad thing, just means it will take a bit longer.)  The same thing with Dumas.  The last book of the year, How to Write Well looks like it will be more of an academic text as well, thus also a little more difficult to be getting on with.

For recap, here are the books remaining in my 3 month challenge!


Currently Reading 
The Star Wars Trilogy by George Lucas (on page 386 of 720, 54% complete)

To-Read
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (503 pages)
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)

Well, it's time to get back to reading.  I have another 67 pages to read today if I want to stay on track.  And as I would like to be ahead of schedule...