The "Gloria Scott"
- but first, let me wish you all a (belated) Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! I'm sorry I haven't posted very much. It's been a strange year from start to finish and, very sadly, less bookish than I had planned. Pretty much the only challenge I completed (apart from Onegin) was o's Russian Literature 2014 challenge, and even there, I only read Dostoyevsky and Pushkin. That said, for a slow year, I'm glad to have read The Brothers Karamazov and Lord Jim , which had seemed so inaccessible before. I hope to do better next year, but am not making any grand commitments... There's one challenge I'm carrying over, and that's re-reading the Complete Sherlock Holmes. I haven't read it in its entirety in about ten years. It's a joy to come back to my favorite character in all literature, and I'm reading chronologically this time, following this list which looks pretty good. (There was a day I would have figured out the timeline on my ow...