3000 hours
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:50 PM and is filed under Big plans and minor setbacks.
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The "bedroom project" has come to an end. I'll post a full battery of pics after I finish tweaking everything. The pic above is a small fraction of the project. It illustrates a severe design flaw. Seriously, what was I thinking?...there is 50 FIFTY! feet of bookshelves in my bedroom, leaving 15 feet of empty shelves. It's going to cost me a sick amount of time and money to fill those 15 feet. Used books are about $5 an inch. $5 X 12 X 15 = $900. That's more than I spent on the maple and birch to build the damn shelves. I'm at least 200 books short. If it takes me 15 hours to read a book, then I'm in for 3000 hours of reading. Clearly I'm fucked.
So...read any good books lately? I'm open for business. No non-fiction. As horrible as it sounds, I haven't had much luck with (modern) woman authors. I cringe saying that, because I'm well aware of the hate mail I'm going to get. Whatever. Here are some random favorites:
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Midaq Alley - Naguib Mahfouz
The Sweep of the Second Hand - Dean Monti
A Fan's Notes - Frederick Exley
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Beginning of Sorrows - David Martin
Revere Beach Boulevard - Roland Merullo
The Story of the Stone Vol. 1 (vol.2-5 was stupid) - Cao Xueqin
3 Musketeers/Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Oblomov - Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
Shardik - Richard Adams
. You might want them for your daughter if nothing else. And, Hardy's Return of the Native. God, I love that book. And whatever Jane Austen book the movie Clueless is based on 
