have already gone awry.
My PC has broken and must be sent away. This means a) I will be offline for a fortnight at least; or b) I must get to grips with the wordpress ipad application and work out how to get photos from camera to ipad; or c) Blog photolessly.
Given that I am in the middle of a digital photography course and am grappling with apertures and shutters and bracketing and … I have enough technology challenges to contend with, so I’m going offline and will use the additional time to attack the TBR.
Thanks to the definition of books in the post being legitimate entries for this year’s TBR Double Dog Dare, I availed myself of the opportunity to preorder a few titles. I didn’t go mad and restricted myself to just 4 books, all translations. 2 from German (Snow White Must Die, Going to the Dogs), 1 Catalan (The Sound of One Hand Killing) and 1 from Japanese (The Gate). That should wIll keep me happy for the next 3 months. It will – I’m combining the Double Dog Dare with a book- buying ban …. for the whole 3 months (orders placed prior to 31.01.12 don’t count).
Specific plans included participation in blogging events January in Japan and Long Awaited Reads I had a very enticing reading list at the ready. (See footnote.) But – here it comes – my reading group decided that this is the month for the 1194 pages of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. I’m afraid that all other reading plans are suspended for the foreseeable future.
This is going to take time. The print is small and it’s not exactly plot-driven or the first 98 pages, (3.5 hours to read) weren’t. At least my enforced blogging break may help me get through it. See you on the other side ……
Footnote
Original reading choices for January in Japan
Japanese Short Stories (Folio Society Anthology)
The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino
Original Long Awaited Read Choices
Journey by Moonlight – Antal Szerb
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Reading Les Miserables in one month? I don’t think I envy you! I have not tried any Hugo, but that seems a lot of pages for one month. I hope you will find it more interesting as you go along!
I am sorry your computer broke, but as you say, at least this will leave you with more time for reading.
I have the same question as Iris, that’s very ambitious. Good luck! I’ll be doing many of the challenges in which you are participating and I’m looking forward to seeing your choices.^^
Wow, Les Miserables as a book club choice? That should be a really interesting conversation! I’m reading The Gate for January in Japan too so, if you get to it, it’ll be fun to compare notes.
Happy reading, Lizzy! Also, hope your computer comes back soon. ‘The Sound of One Hand Killing’ is a very intriguing title. It makes me remember the Zen Koan about the sound of one hand clapping.
hope it is fixed soon you can just use wordpress via safari I do that as don’t like ipad app much myself ,all the best stu
Tried that, Stu but found that it’s next to impossible to edit and as for cut and paste, welll – aaaargh!
Les Mis in a month? Is that even possible? All the best!…