Tag: Fun Home

I’m getting a lot more reading done this Read-a-Thon. The June one was shorter, yes, but I also just have way more reading to do, and I have to prioritise it, because it’s for class!

Still loving my re-read of the Sherlock Holmes canon, and I’m really enjoying a lot of the reading for my non-fiction writing class–have read a couple of memoirs I would not have picked up on my own.

Number of pages I have read so far:

• 61 pages from Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories by Douglas Greene [Ed.]. Notes: no update.
• 26 pages from On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz. Notes: no update.
• 150 pages of A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Notes: finished.
• 141 pages of The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Notes: finished.
• 229 pages of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Notes: still reading!
• 232 pages of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. Notes: finished.
• 52 pages of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington. Notes: I’m behind on this one—I ought to be at 100 pages—but I’m getting through. Still a difficult read.
• 100 (manuscript) pages of my friend’s WIP. Notes: finished.

Running page count: 991

So swamped! Just started my third class for the summer, so that’s another pile of reading on… Whew!

Page count to this point:

• 61 pages from Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories by Douglas Greene [Ed.]. Notes: no update.
• 26 pages from On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz. Notes: no update.
• 150 pages of A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Notes: finished.
• 141 pages of The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Notes: finished.
• 145 pages of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Notes: just trucking along…
• 232 pages of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. Notes: finished. I was uncomfortable with Bechdel’s use of pejoratives in describing her father’s sexuality, but aside from that, this was a brilliant work—I blasted through it in one day, because I didn’t want to stop reading.
• 38 pages of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington. Notes: this is a hard read, emotionally, but it’s been on my list for a while, and I’m gonna be reading it for a class on scientific racism.
• 100 (manuscript) pages of my friend’s WIP. Notes: finished.

Running page count: 893