I am finally finished with Gaiman's Neverwhere and it sure took me long enough. I first opened it up on the 18th of this month. I made the decision today to modify my original goal of completing twenty-five select titles over the summer down to a more modest twelve. That leaves me with five more to go before classes start back up. I'm having a little trouble choosing which of the five I pulled out to move on to first. My only priority is to finish those books that I have already begun to read which comprise a large portion of my initial list.
And Eternity, by author Piers Anthony, is book seven of the Incarnations of Immortality series. I read the first six books of the series early in 2002. I became distracted by school work and never got back around to completing this one. I just now found a bookmark I thought I'd lost to the great void stuck in between pages 36 and 37. Apparently I hadn't gone that far into it, which is a good thing because I feel as though I need to start it again from the first page. Then there's the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. This was assigned reading for the Philosophy in Literature course that I had in my first semester at GMU. The class never got around to it. I didn't sell it back because I had previously heard good things about it and I wanted to make time to read it on my own. The corner of page 13 is folded down on this one. I brought it with me to Florida in June when I visited my mother. We were having such a good time I never even took it out of the car. Next I have here Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne. This is a neat little comic book a friend showed me while I was taking Philosophy 100 also in my first semester at GMU. I purchased my own copy while I was still attending the class, but I didn't make any real progress with it until over this summer. I'm presently a little more than halfway through it (I'm specifically on the first page of the German Enlightenment). Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is the next book in this short stack of five. I did start this book at one point, but I was exhausted at the time and skipped one of the first few pages (not deliberately, they just stuck together). Consequently, I became annoyed and put it back on the book shelf. Since the last few books I've read were by Gaiman I feel an obligation to keep the trend going with this final work. At the bottom of the pile is a biography. I find myself almost ashamed to share who it is of. That is the main reason I want to just read it and cast it out of my collection forever. I never even put a book plate in it. Ok, I'll tell you, but you have to promise that you won't laugh: Alanis Morisette. Stop laughing dammit!! Did I fail to mention that it was in the bargain shelves at Barnes and Noble for a mere $4.98? The sticker is still plastered to the lower left-hand corner of the cover. Perhaps I haven't shared my weakness for first, things on sale and for second, books about anything and nothing in particular? Well.
After all that discussion I still don't know what I want to read next.
-- CrystalShiloh @ 06:07 PM