I'm on the road, with spotty internet access. So I won't be able to write much until next week at the earliest. On the plus side, I had a good long time to sit down with the remainder of the Great Books and try to figure out what approach I should take.
If I stuck with the original plan, I would have six years left, with 18 pieces per year. This would leave a grand total of 108 items left to be read. But I've hacked away and trimmed the list to either 62 or 68 pieces. (I'm still up in the air on a few of them.) The full 68 comprise about 5000 pages of reading. I'll post a full list when I'm home next week.
Once I decided what I still wanted to read, the question became what order should I read them in? The project so far has been chronological within each year. We start with the Greeks and proceed from there. I thought about designing the same system for either a three or four year push but I've decided against that.
Instead, I'm going to treat the list as an ala carte menu. There are five major categories that I want to hit each year, so I'll mix it up somewhat, but I won't be bound too hard. If other people were reading along with me, I would want some kind of system with more advance warning. That doesn't look like it will be a problem.
I hope you're all well! Talk to you again soon!
If I stuck with the original plan, I would have six years left, with 18 pieces per year. This would leave a grand total of 108 items left to be read. But I've hacked away and trimmed the list to either 62 or 68 pieces. (I'm still up in the air on a few of them.) The full 68 comprise about 5000 pages of reading. I'll post a full list when I'm home next week.
Once I decided what I still wanted to read, the question became what order should I read them in? The project so far has been chronological within each year. We start with the Greeks and proceed from there. I thought about designing the same system for either a three or four year push but I've decided against that.
Instead, I'm going to treat the list as an ala carte menu. There are five major categories that I want to hit each year, so I'll mix it up somewhat, but I won't be bound too hard. If other people were reading along with me, I would want some kind of system with more advance warning. That doesn't look like it will be a problem.
I hope you're all well! Talk to you again soon!
If you get stuck over where to go next, flip a coin!
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