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I am also loving the Shakespeare and Co. readings and podcast.

Love this guide. Thank you Patrick!

I am making my way through this brilliant, complex, and challenging work. On to the Sirens episode. I am grateful for the Discord group read, the Hastings guide (brilliant and succinct), and the Gifford annotations (which I am using sparingly after burying myself in them through the first three episodes. It was simply too much during a first read).

I didn't make it through this one during November's group read. December is another month!

It's time to get back into this one in an attempt to complete it prior to the October group read of The Tunnel.

I thought it would be a good idea to annotate my copy of the Recognitions as I read it. Thanks to Steven Moore for his annotations at williamgaddis.org. I'm using Mr. Moore's annotations as well as adding my own thoughts, highlights, favorite passages, and looking up the references that I was unfamiliar with. While it is taking a lot of time and will likely take me 3-months, so far it's totally worth it.

I was going to read The Sot-Weed Factor but decided that I should start at the beginning of Barth's oeuvre and work my way through it chronologically. So far, I'm happy with this decision.