Well, I'm back. Basically I lost my motivation to work on the project for a while, and then I started nursing school and that has eaten up a lot of my time. But I'm getting better at studying now so I have a little free time and I figured I could work on the project a little at a time.
I know I left off in the middle of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples but I will come back to that at some point. The problem is, I had to check it out of the library so the setup was not very conducive to my slow reading pace. So I've decided to move on to a Kindle book, and then come back to Churchill when I have more time.
A quick update on me, since so much has happened since I last was here: I got married in September, I started nursing school two weeks later (my husband is also a nursing student) and I turned twenty-five four days after I got married (it was a busy couple of weeks). This officially means I have less than five years to finish the project, and I haven't done the calculations yet, but I'm sure I'm way behind pace.
So the next book I'm going to tackle is Faust by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe. This is a tragic play in two parts written in German in the mid-1700's. The version I am reading was translated by Charles Timothy Brooks.
The play tells the traditional German story of Heinrich Faust, a dissatisfied scholar who sells his soul to the devil. According to Wikipedia, this play is considered one of the greatest works of German literature. Franz Liszt, the great Hungarian composer, wrote a symphony called Faust Symphony and Charles Gounod wrote an operatic version as well. There is apparently a musical version by Randy Newman and there are Czech and Russian film adaptations as well.
The Kindle version I have has 226 pages and will probably take me a while to finish because nursing school and work are eating up the majority of my time.
But at least I'm back!
Yay!
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