Tomorrow at lunch I will be finishing Edmund Wilson's magnum opus "To The Finland Station." It's a history book about writing history; it's an account of revolutions in Europe and Russia; it was hard to read because he glossed over events that my ill-educated ass hardly even knows occurred. However, I feel like it was kind of a rite of passage. I can read a little Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Babeuf, Bakunin, or LaSalle and have at least had a little exposure.
I'm stalled at the start of part five of Anna Karenina but will be continuing on tomorrow evening. Up next: Colson Whitehead's "Apex Hides the Hurt" in the fiction department and "An All-Consuming Century" by Gary Cross as nonfiction.
The fifty book challenge has grown to two members strong. Check out Wayne's blog here for his reading list. Also, if you're a member of LibraryThing you may have received their recent email about trying to get through fifty this year as well. I'm on the site but I have yet to officially join their challenge.
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