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Registration went pretty smoothly once again. I think next time, though, I will make a point to register on the first day I can (which was Wednesday), this is only three days later but a lot of the sessions I wanted were already closed.

So I've got:

Mondays & Wednesdays

1:30 - 2:45 ENG 110P Second Language Learning and Teaching
3:00 - 4:15 ENG 65 Introduction to World Literature in English

Tuesdays and Thursdays

9:00 - 10:15 HRS 188 Fantasy and Romance (GE req. and it just sounds like fun)
10:30 - 11:45 MAT 1 Mathematical Reasoning (GE req. - the catalog specifically says this one is "recommended for students whose majors do not include a specific mathematics requirement." That's me!)
12:00 - 1:15 ENG 40B Introduction to British Lit, II (from the pre-Romantics through the 20th Century)

(no subject)

Registration went pretty smoothly once again. I think next time, though, I will make a point to register on the first day I can (which was Wednesday), this is only three days later but a lot of the sessions I wanted were already closed.

So I've got:

Mondays & Wednesdays

1:30 - 2:45 ENG 110P Second Language Learning and Teaching
3:00 - 4:15 ENG 65 Introduction to World Literature in English

Tuesdays and Thursdays

9:00 - 10:15 HRS 188 Fantasy and Romance (GE req. and it just sounds like fun)
10:30 - 11:45 MAT 1 Mathematical Reasoning (GE req. - the catalog specifically says this one is "recommended for students whose majors do not include a specific mathematics requirement." That's me!)
12:00 - 1:15 ENG 40B Introduction to British Lit, II (from the pre-Romantics through the 20th Century)

Book #21 - Our Mutual Friend

O frabjous day! I think I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this book now. I did, as I have mentioned before, enjoy the story itself - the main, underlying story, that is - and I even appreciate the device of having lots of side-stories that all connect back to the central one. But at the same time I wish there hadn't been so many of them, and/or that Dickens hadn't been quite so wordy about them. Though I suppose then he wouldn't be Dickens, would he? So, yes, finished at last. Quite a slog, though not wholly un-enjoyable, as I wouldn't have bothered sticking with it to the end if it weren't.

It's hard to summarize due to all the aforementioned side-stories, but I'll try for the sake of those who - like myself - had never even heard of this book, though it's considered by Dickens scholars to be his greatest work: The main central point is the death of John Harmon, just as he returns to England to claim his fortune, and the subsequent dispensation of that fortune, and the fates of those people connected to it in varying degrees (which is everyone in the book). There are characters who have wealth and use it poorly, those who don't have wealth but pretend to, those who have it and don't care, those who don't have it and don't care, those who don't have it and want it, etc. In addition to being a story - a romance, really - about how people react to and interact with other people, it's also an examination of how people react to and interact with money (and the things money can buy) in mid-nineteenth century Britain.

Title: Our Mutual Friend
Author: Charles Dickens
Pages: 820

21 / 24 books. 88% done!

Book #21 - Our Mutual Friend

O frabjous day! I think I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this book now. I did, as I have mentioned before, enjoy the story itself - the main, underlying story, that is - and I even appreciate the device of having lots of side-stories that all connect back to the central one. But at the same time I wish there hadn't been so many of them, and/or that Dickens hadn't been quite so wordy about them. Though I suppose then he wouldn't be Dickens, would he? So, yes, finished at last. Quite a slog, though not wholly un-enjoyable, as I wouldn't have bothered sticking with it to the end if it weren't.

It's hard to summarize due to all the aforementioned side-stories, but I'll try for the sake of those who - like myself - had never even heard of this book, though it's considered by Dickens scholars to be his greatest work: The main central point is the death of John Harmon, just as he returns to England to claim his fortune, and the subsequent dispensation of that fortune, and the fates of those people connected to it in varying degrees (which is everyone in the book). There are characters who have wealth and use it poorly, those who don't have wealth but pretend to, those who have it and don't care, those who don't have it and don't care, those who don't have it and want it, etc. In addition to being a story - a romance, really - about how people react to and interact with other people, it's also an examination of how people react to and interact with money (and the things money can buy) in mid-nineteenth century Britain.

Title: Our Mutual Friend
Author: Charles Dickens
Pages: 820

21 / 24 books. 88% done!

Book #22 - Henry IV, Part I

Another that dragged, without the benefit OMF had of at least being interesting while it dragged. John Falstaff annoys me, and I can't figure out whether Prince Hal really even likes him at all. I understand Hal does put him aside at the end of part II, but I don't think I care quite enough to bother reading it to find out. Happy to just have this one behind me.

Title: Henry IV, Part I
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 225

22 / 24 books. 92% done!

Book #22 - Henry IV, Part I

Another that dragged, without the benefit OMF had of at least being interesting while it dragged. John Falstaff annoys me, and I can't figure out whether Prince Hal really even likes him at all. I understand Hal does put him aside at the end of part II, but I don't think I care quite enough to bother reading it to find out. Happy to just have this one behind me.

Title: Henry IV, Part I
Author: William Shakespeare
Pages: 225

22 / 24 books. 92% done!

Shaddup, fool

The Mr. T and William Shatner commercials for WoW amuse me. "Maybe Mr. T hacked the game, and made a Mohawk class." Oh, I'm so tempted to create a Warrior who talks like Mr. T now. Probably so are lots of other people, though (if they weren't already).

Shaddup, fool

The Mr. T and William Shatner commercials for WoW amuse me. "Maybe Mr. T hacked the game, and made a Mohawk class." Oh, I'm so tempted to create a Warrior who talks like Mr. T now. Probably so are lots of other people, though (if they weren't already).