Monday, January 6, 2025

Reflections on Week 46 (Nov 11-17)

 Link to the readings

I'm making breakfast for dinner to celebrate my wife's thesis after this.

Quick review on this week's readings:

Nov 11 Poems by Whitman: 3/5 Unconventional subjects, pretty good poems.

Nov 12 Paradise Lost by Milton: 3/5 An actual good(ish) Paradise Lost section!

Nov 13 The Confessions of Saint Augustine: 2/5 I waffled on scoring this one a lot. Strong front half, iffy back half.

Nov 14 "Uniformity of Change" by Lyell: 1/5 Not very interesting, and hard to comprehend.

Nov 15 I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Allessandro Manzoni : 2/5 Random section way after the rest of the book.

Nov 16 Two Years Before the Mast by Dana: 3/5 California Girls are have but little virtue doesn't have the same ring to it. 

Nov 17 Sir Walter Scott by Carylye: 0/5 What even is this?

Average: 2 This was a really hard to rate week.

Overall Thoughts on The Project:

Sure, my wife is getting a doctorate, but did she do fifteen minutes a day of a pseudo liberal studies degree? No. (She did a lot more work, but I didn't have to put up with her cohort and professors.)

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I never realized how little of Pride and Prejudice is actually about Darcy and Elizabeth's relationship.

 Also, listening to audio books isn't reading. That doesn't make it bad, it's just its own thing.