This Weekend

I Voted!
And I'm not going to harp on about it or tell who I voted for.  I just feel like voting is one of our duties as an American citizen.  I have fulfilled that duty during each presidential election.  Now that I'm settled in one place (more or less), I need to pay a bit more attention to local politics, and vote in local elections too.  I haven't previously because I have been largely ignorant of local issues, something that needs to change.

Reading
I started Little Women on Friday, reading 69 pages that day.  On Saturday I read only 42 pages in the book, and yesterday I read 192 pages.  Can you tell when and where the book truly hooked me??  Now I'm 303 pages into it, and it's really good so far.

Little Women is definitely written for a much younger audience than As I Lay Dying, something evident in the writing style, the way the characters speak, and the overall plot of Little Women.  I'm not surprised by this discovery, as Little Women is intended as a children's book, and As I Lay Dying is intended as a book to make you think.

Finished Reading
The Star Wars Trilogy by George Lucas (720 pages)
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)

Currently Reading
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (on page 303 of 528, 57%)

To-Read
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)