Updated reading list for 52 books in 52 weeks

Updated reading list for '52 books in 52 weeks' (2013)

•                The Family Fang: A Novel by Kevin Wilson

•                The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony

•                Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (YA)

•                Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (YA)

•                Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick (YA)

•                Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick (YA)

•                Becoming Jane Eyre by Shelia Kohler (fiction)

•                The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

•                David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 

•                Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 

•                City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•                City of Glass by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•                City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•                City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•                Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•               Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•                Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (YA)

•                The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry 

•                The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

•                Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

•                Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

•                A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz 

•                Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

•                Lady Susan by Jane Austen

•                Jane Austen by Carol Shields (biography)

•                The Dark Angel by Meredith Ann Pierce

•                Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman

•                The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories edited by William Trevor

•                The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

•                The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

•                A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry

•                Defend and Betray by Anne Perry

•                Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

•                Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (YA)

•                 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (reread)

•                Villette by Charlotte Bronte

•                The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
•                Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

In the thick of things

My Mobile  Thesis Station

My last Sewanee summer ended in July, a blurred frenzy of Shakespeare (with the great Ann Cook), and Classical literature in translation (a.k.a. ancient Greek literature). I became a Shakespearean actress for 6 weeks, watched more plays than any person should have to endure in a lifetime, travelled with my classmates into the depths of Solomon's Temple cave on the Domain (convinced I wouldn't survive the ascent back up the mountain), and visited Athena at her temple in Nashville. Like I said, a blurred frenzy.

Now that summer has passed, I'm deep in the bowels of the thesis beast, trying to find my way back out. While I prepared a year in advance for my research, I find that it hasn't set me ahead by much. My first chapter is due in the middle of December, and I'm praying I can make the deadline.

Meanwhile, I'm also participating in NaNoWriMo 2013, which I probably shouldn't be doing, but it's only for the month and I need something to keep me sane, right? Last year's NaNoWriMo was awesome, and I'm finally getting around to editing the novel I wrote for it. It seems if I'm not super busy, I'm bored to death, which forces me to have many irons in the fire. In fact, if I had a Native American name, the English translation would probably be "Many Irons in the Fire".