…it begins.
I started my journey to becoming an autodidact yesterday, with Ernest Hemingway. I started reading The Old Man and the Sea, on a long-standing recommendation from Pop (my grandfather). It was either Hemingway or Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky will be next now. I went out to Half Price Books this weekend and got some Dostoyevsky, some Tolstoy, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I completely forgot to look for George Orwell’s 1984; thought I’d give that another try, as I didn’t like it the first time I read it.
I also completely forgot about giving my library card a run – I was planning on checking books out of the library and reading them and seeing if I liked them before I bought them. Oops.
Well, I figure the books I bought will be keepers, so it all works out in the end.
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