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A while ago I started read­ing Jane Eyre and loved it, but for an unac­count­able reason I put it down and didn’t pick it up again until last night. Now I’m deter­mined to forge on until I finish, because it is absolutely amaz­ing. I’ve also started read­ing The Silver Chair again. Ah, the mem­o­ries are coming back. :) (I real­ized that I haven’t re-​read Prince Caspian or Voyage of the Dawn Treader or The Horse and His Boy in a very, very long time.)

And I’m still read­ing How to Read a Book and Phan­tastes and To Draw Closer to God, which brings me to a ques­tion: is read­ing ten gazil­lion books at a time a prob­lem? On the one hand, you get to read more books. On the other hand, how­ever, it takes longer to get through any one book. It’s a con­stant dilemma for me, because I keep find­ing books I want to read — War and Peace, The Broth­ers Kara­ma­zov, Freako­nom­ics, The Da Vinci Code, as just a few exam­ples — and yet I can’t read more than five or six books at a time with­out bring­ing the whole machine to a crawl. I guess I’d better devote more time to read­ing. ;) (Alas, school­work, you were a dear friend, but ’tis time we parted. Er, not quite yet. Give me a few more years and then I’ll get paid to read books. Mmm. Dream job. :))

[tags]Jane Eyre, Narnia, C.S. Lewis, Adler, Phan­tastes, War and Peace, Broth­ers Kara­ma­zov, Freako­nom­ics, Da Vinci Code[/tags]