One Month Down.

I've been on a novella reading binge since finishing East of Eden. Large books are more intimate, but they can (especially when you have assigned yourself an inordinate amount of reading) take on the sensation of a wet bog, dragging all production down. So I dove into brief, less-than-two hundred-pagers with the hopes of bringing it all back.

I believe as of the night of May 31st, 2010, fourteen books have been read. I'm not sure on the exact page total, but it is somewhere between 2250 and 2600 I think, not too bad. Here's a list of the collage:

The End of the Affair- Graham Greene
To the Gas Chamber, Ladies and Gentlemen- Tadeuz Borowski
Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
The Procession- Khalil Gibran
To Believe in God- Joseph Pintauro
About a Boy- Nick Hornby
Meditations in an Emergency- Frank O'Hara
Tao Te Ching- Lao Tzu
East of Eden- John Steinbeck
Anthem- Ayn Rand
Antigone- Sophicles
The Love Girl and the Innocent- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
What's on Your Mind- Merlin Carothers

I'm off to a good, maybe even excellent, start for June. I've finished The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian, and am on pace to finish a book a day for about the first week (with all my side projects). Keep reading. I think the month of June's book will be Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, but this is just preliminary speculation.

Steinbeck is amazing.