Final total of books read in 2004: 142, two short of a gross. Reading list for the year is available by e-mailing me at bibliobaggins@cox.net.
Dedicating the first part of the year to re-reading a select list of classics. Three-fourths of the way through Don Quixote as edited by Edith Grossman. Also reading Stephen Ambrose's early history of Nixon. (The re-reading applies only to fiction.)
Don Quixote is funnier and more insightful than I expected. I last read Cervantes as a high school freshman and that was probably an abridged version. Grossman has done a superb job of translation. This is an eminently readable work.
About Me
- Biblio Baggins
- Olathe, Kansas, United States
- I collect what I read with an emphasis on cartoons, comic strips and comic books. I also collect modern first edition. My largest and most important collection represents the works of novelist and poet Louise Erdrich.
Blog Archive
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2005
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January
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- Shelf Life, Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore
- Edith Wharton and The Age of Innocence
- First Book Sales of the Season
- Completed Eighth Book of 2005
- The Comic Characters of Author Anne Tyler
- Animals worship pagan god in Grahame's Willows
- On Returning to a Long-Loved Book
- Nixon and Ambrose
- Book Three. So It Goes.
- Jared Diamond and the Collapse of Society
- Edith Grossman and the Translator's Art
- On the death of a character and the Dun Cow
- Thoughts on the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote
- First Book of 2005 Completed
- Hotel Rwanda and Philip Gourevitch
- Goodbye 2004, Hello 2005
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January
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