I cannot find appropriate words to
express how hard it is for me to choose which book to read among the
44 books I need to before 2017. I know that the Club holds an Austen
event this month, but having no Austen among my list I cannot join
the readalong, because I want to finish first my list before moving
to other works (as much as I can, for I know how capricious my
reading mood is, and sometimes I read other books anyway).
While waiting for Shakespeare's
readalong on September, I'd like to finish a book or two from my
list. Some books have arisen my curiosity, such as Defoe's Robinson
Crusoe and Goethe's Faust,
but I still feel hesitant to try. So instead of forcing myself to
read what I don't feel like reading now, I turn my attention to books
from more familiar authors, and my heart chooses (again) Dumas.
Seeing
two more books under his name on my list, The Three
Musketeers and The Man
in the Iron Mask, I feel it
would be amusing to read the series, considering how many adaptations
have been inspired by the adventures related in those volumes. Some
of the movie adaptations, though, show themselves contradicting each
other, and it makes me even more curious to find the “true story”
of our four musketeers.
I hope
I will finish The Three Musketeers before
the end of the month. The other novels can wait.
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Oh, do I know that feeling! I've got over 100 novels on my TBR list, and want to read all of them at once. It's a good problem to have, though; better than having nothing to read when you want it!
ReplyDeleteA hundred? Why, that's really something. True it's a good problem to have. :D
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