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thinking abt books kinda not rly
I'm just kind of rambling here because what else do I do. As of currently I think I'm scheduled (hopefully) to finish Finnegans Wake by the end of the year. It will be kind of funny if I do because that means in 2021 I'll have read both Infinite Jest and Finnegans Wake, but that's not important it's just funny. Which leads me to the question/problem of 2022 reading, I guess, since initially my plan had been to read Finnegans Wake in 2022. My sister and I have talked about doing a reread of Infinite Jest together in the coming year but that won't impede any other reading plans I have since it'll be something of a slow readthrough so it won't impede any of my other reading plans. I run into an issue with books like these of needing to maintain a sense of forward momentum. I think it's because of somethin I read when I first started Ulysses, about how the first readthrough is just about saying you finished, and everything after that can be slower and take a year or two and be about really taking it apart. I think this method doesn't work for some people, but it works for me, because if I don't maintain that sense of forward momentum I'll get distracted by whatever new shiny thing there is to read.
I've also found for Finnegans Wake that maintaining a reading list in an excel spreadsheet is helpful for keeping me reading every day, but I think this won't continue beyond this book. I've been pushing and pulling my relationship with Goodreads, because I find it useful for keeping track of books that I read (and a handful I want to read), but "gameifying" reading is a really dangerous thing for me, and I get too focused on seeing numbers go up rather than enjoying my reading. I think I'm mostly disconnected from that now, and I've just been using it to mark start and stop dates (and occasional page updates -- usually once or twice a week). The excel spreadsheet is different though, because it doesn't have particular % progress markers, and because I don't have to share it with anyone unless I absolutely want to. I also have to update it every day even if I don't read (which helps keep me on reading each day -- except I've been taking one off a week from The Wake and i think that's okay). hilarious unintentional finnegans wake wake my most awful starira fic my beloved anyway . i did steal the formula from the circe episode a little bit (circe iirc but maybe a different one -- it's an extended hallucination sequence) and Joyce definitely was testing out ideas in that episode that he used in the wake so like. we r thriving ? or suffering -- ANYWAY)
back to the . important stuff LMFAO. so my thoughts for 2022 are to maybe center my reading around some specific thing, while also maintaining my plan to actually take this year to get through books that I own but haven't read yet (although this is suspect as always). I have a handful of ideas but I also have time to decide which I'll choose (and it's semi-dependent on whether or not I'll maintain momentum for the wake which is.....also suspect <3) this is about to gwetnonsense while i presetn it like my actual thoughts a bit
I've also found for Finnegans Wake that maintaining a reading list in an excel spreadsheet is helpful for keeping me reading every day, but I think this won't continue beyond this book. I've been pushing and pulling my relationship with Goodreads, because I find it useful for keeping track of books that I read (and a handful I want to read), but "gameifying" reading is a really dangerous thing for me, and I get too focused on seeing numbers go up rather than enjoying my reading. I think I'm mostly disconnected from that now, and I've just been using it to mark start and stop dates (and occasional page updates -- usually once or twice a week). The excel spreadsheet is different though, because it doesn't have particular % progress markers, and because I don't have to share it with anyone unless I absolutely want to. I also have to update it every day even if I don't read (which helps keep me on reading each day -- except I've been taking one off a week from The Wake and i think that's okay). hilarious unintentional finnegans wake wake my most awful starira fic my beloved anyway . i did steal the formula from the circe episode a little bit (circe iirc but maybe a different one -- it's an extended hallucination sequence) and Joyce definitely was testing out ideas in that episode that he used in the wake so like. we r thriving ? or suffering -- ANYWAY)
back to the . important stuff LMFAO. so my thoughts for 2022 are to maybe center my reading around some specific thing, while also maintaining my plan to actually take this year to get through books that I own but haven't read yet (although this is suspect as always). I have a handful of ideas but I also have time to decide which I'll choose (and it's semi-dependent on whether or not I'll maintain momentum for the wake which is.....also suspect <3) this is about to gwetnonsense while i presetn it like my actual thoughts a bit
- myfirst plan is to read something easy while also reading some interpretations of the wake. i have a book list recommended by the Tindall guide but i FUCKING HATE IT so I'm going to try and look for something better -- seriously. it's a decent explanation of the general "what the fuck ishappening" of the book (but even then) but the man is SO wildly sexist. i find it hard to believe that in the 80 years since this book has been published that nobody's written a better guide than Tindall in the 60s and if nobody has . god dammit I don't want to but somebody has to change the state of affairs
- the easy thing i want to read is the three musketeers.
- i like dumas' writing i think it's silly and fun.
- also i own this book so it factors into reading books i own
- i've been thinking about seiran recently. end of tweet
- French lit. this is the least likely. there's stuff I want to read but I don't own most of it, and this is really only for if I'm /really/ struck by the mood, but my friend and I talked about reading
- hunchback of notre dame (?) les mis (?)
- british lit -- i can structure this a lot of sub-ways but in particular i have a lot of charles dickens??? i've never read..good chance to fill some shakespeare reading holes too
- troilus and criseyde
- russian lit -- i have the brothers karamazov and dead souls that I want to read. also I have been struck by intense desire to read War and Peace.
- war and peace
- american lit -- holy shit you will NOT guess how many american lit books i've never read that i own as an american lit major -- vonnegut + 19th century lit would be the general vibe of it
- moby dick
- nonfiction -- thsi would be lower stress than any other thing. I have many books of essays I could read from, but I could also factor this in as a sort of "quicker reads" for any other plan that I do. centering my year on nonfiction sounds exhausting.