The Sunday Salon

I thought I was going to have to skip the Sunday Salon again but in the end I managed to get in an hour of reading. I finished the last 4 chapters in The Inferno of Dante. But I want to read all the extra notes and such before I review it. It was very interesting. It made me wish I knew more about Italian history so I would know who some of the people encountered in Hell are. I was always excited when I came across a familiar name.

But that wasn't the only bookish thing I did yesterday. I took a little trip to the local Big Book Store and bought Persuasion and The Princess Bride for the new book and movie group I have just started. Persuasion will be a reread. I had planned to reread all of Austen's works this year anyway. And I have been wanting to read The Princess Bride. I read the first few chapters to the kids before we gave up. The actual story is hidden within the author's "biography" and the kids just lost all interest.

My reading plans for the next week are to finish The Buccaneers and to start Miracles by C.S. Lewis. I also have 4 books from the library that I will try to read before I need to return them. They are: Will in the World, The Bully in your Relationship, Blink, and How to Read a Novel. Gosh, that's a lot of non-fiction for me. I'll likely be begging for a good fiction by the time March comes around.

Oh, and I almost forgot that I have Austenland loaded on the Zune for my listening pleasure. And I will be picking up The Namesake on CD from the library today. So many, many books. How will I ever get through them all?