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Had the Institution just left Nimona and Blackheart alone…

100 pages left!

Supposed to hit 130 tonight, but chapter 9 goes on for 30 pages (to 160) and I’ve decided to stop ahead at 123 so I can save all that for tomorrow. Hoping to finish that and “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”

Almost to the 130 that I need to hit today…

Alright, 35 pages down… That puts me like two hours ahead of my schedule, which means I can now pause to watch “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, which is my other duty for the day (to watch all the Tom Holland ones that I’ve never seen before).

Starting this book today to try and finish it by the end of tomorrow, lol. It’s 260 pages. Between Saturday & Sunday, that’s 130 each. If I read about 10-20 every hour in between my Oscar movies… Surely I can get it done? Plus, it’s a reread from high school?

How many new books can I start at this rate?

Pitiful year for me and reading.

Been a bit since I did this. Fell off the wagon with the poems last year, but trying my best to finish this damn book... September was a rough month of poems for this book. My favorites were "#280" by Emily Dickinson, "Sleeping In The Forest" by Mary Oliver, "The Afternoon Sun" by C.P. Cavafy, and "You, Orange Tree..." by Lady Ukyo Daibu. An honorary mention goes to "I Have Not Forgotten" by Charles Baudelaire.

I got to read fifteen pages a day to get this done before the movie (wish me good luck, lol).

Nancy Reagan seems a bit of a cow. Andy Warhol just wants to have a good time. Jackie Kennedy tried so hard to be everything. The royals are controversial as always. Elizabeth Taylor lived a fascinating life. James Dean went too soon.

I’m enjoying this more than I thought I would. The last time I attempted to read this (about ten years ago), I hadn’t read many classics like I have now. I don’t know if that perspective is making me like it more or me not having to read it for school, but for pleasure? Or I’m just understanding things that Lee has written better? Parts of it seem funnier and more entertaining than how I remembered it.