I finished reading Through the Looking Glass earlier. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but it was still fun. The edition I read was The Annotated Alice (with both books in one volume, and lots of notes), and I’d skipped the annotations while reading through. So I spent the rest of my lunch break reading through those, and I find them fascinating for the most part.
I finished the fifty bajillionth read of Ender’s Game a couple of days ago. It amused me because I’d read the First Meetings collection over my winter vacation, and every so often I’d think about how the Ender’s Game novel compared to the original novella, or how the novel seemed to contradict a couple of the short stories. I’m going through something similiar with Speaker for the Dead, as I’ve just been re-introduced to Ender in that book (I told you I wasn’t that far into it when I put it on hold…) and if I recall correctly, the “Investment Counselor” story disagrees with that introduction. Interesting…
1919 is going pretty slowly. I do like it, but it’s like Gulliver’s Travels – I have to be in the mood for it. I just haven’t been in that mood for the past couple of days.
In general site news, I added sorting abilities to the list, author, and title pages (I’ve always had them on the status page); all you have to do is click on the headers to re-sort those lists. I don’t have a means of indicating what order and column you’re sorting by, not yet, but I’ll probably whip up something soon.
I’ve also updated the code so that re-reads are marked as such on the In Progress page. But, I don’t really feel like tracking each and every single time a book’s been re-read (that would require me to rework the tables in the database, and I’ve run out of the energy for that task). So once a book has been completely re-read, it is listed only under its most recent date of completion. For example, Ender’s Game no longer appears under the “pre-Bookworm’s Quest” page; it now shows up on the list of January 2006 books.
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