I've managed to bring my total of works of the canon read to 67. That is a far cry from the thousands that I have to get through so I hope to break the 100 mark by the end of the year. Basically that means that this summer is going to be spent reading as much as humanly possible. Certainly more that what I conquered last summer, which was, in it's entirety... Bleak House.
Since the start of this project a little more than a year ago, I've read 21 titles. I'm happy to say that so far, Harold Bloom has not led me astray. Everything I've read has been worth it. I've no complaints. As for what's next...
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, is the next selection. I fell in love with Forster 's stories after watching the Merchant Ivory production of A Room With a View, and gobbled up that novel at some point during my high school years. Later I picked up Howard's End while a member of a book club back in 2003 or so and enjoyed that piece as well, now I'm onto A Passage to India. First published in 1924 it was hailed as one of the the 100 great works of English literature by Modern Library publishing company, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Literature in 1924, and was included in Time Magazine's 100 best English language novels from 1923 to 2005. All that being said, I'm expecting a good read. So, without further ado... here I go.... (hopefully I'll post again within a week or so... fingers crossed).
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