Big life changes and small blog changes

Exciting news! We are expecting a little boy in a couple of months. We are super excited and super pleased. But there is no way I can post weekly with a newborn. So I will finish this month with weekly posts. Then I will be moving to one post a month for the foreseeable future. I don't want to go on yet another hiatus so this is a preventative measure. If I find that I get a long way ahead I may put up bonus posts but I don't want to commit to a high workload.

Another new start

 

Hello again, to all of you who are still here. I know it has been a while, but this is a project that, while it may get put down from time to time is burnt into my brain and something I always want to come back to.

So here we go back into these crazy lists of literature, mainly ancient but intermingled with the only the slightly less ancient AD literature list. The plan is still to post the  AD literature list once a month and weekly book updates from the BC list. So tomorrow there will be a post from the AD literature list, ongoing this will be the first Monday of the month but for this first one its tomorrow.

A few changes you will notice, my husband and I have decided that due to both cost and space restrictions I am going to start working with ebook copies of these classics. This means no more pictures of the books in the blog posts as I will no longer have books to photograph. I still like to have a picture at the top of the post so you will be seeing a lot more of my owl avatar which was put together for my by my good friend and artist Anna O'Dea.

Just to update you all, my husband and I have moved to Tokoroa (New Zealand). It was sad to say good bye to Hamilton, which for both of us was our university town, in saying that, it is only a little over an hours drive and we keep finding reasons to drive back, it's something we are working on. With this move and job change my hubby is no longer driving trucks but rather planning truck loading and scheduling for his new employer.

That's about it for an update, and re-commencement. Wish me luck, I do not have as big of a buffer as I would have hoped for but at least I've finished City of God.

I'm back for a New year of even more books!

Hello 2019, though it is a little late for new years resolutions, this is my mid January resolution. My goal for 2019 for this blog and for my self education project in general is:
Make it through to the start of Aristophanes by 2020 on the BC List
Now this might be over reaching as it goes beyond the first fifty list that I have posted, but as I have previously stated my total list is over 300 works long, though you have probably noticed by now some of those are very short.
To this end I have put in some serious time into reading Herodotus' Histories as I have been working on that work far too long and need to move on. I'm hoping to be finished reading it tomorrow and to have written its blog post by the end of the week.
I will be posting from here on on Fridays and I will stay in the order of the list.
The first week of the month I want to dedicate to the AD lit list and the other 3 or 4, depending on the month, will be the BC list. In other words my other goal for this project is:
Complete 11 works from the AD lit list by 2020
January is already half over so it will only be fore the rest of the year. This will put me a few works into Chaucer by 2020.
Again this might be over reach but it's work taking a good crack at.
So here is to a productive and focused year!

You might be wondering what happened last year that had this come to a halt, so let me fill you in. I had mentioned that I had a new job and that, optimistically, I would have time to read and write at work as it had a lot of down time. I was working on a newly opened dairy factory and as that had its teething issues and other problems my time got very fragmented and it became hard to read anything longer than an article without having interruptions.
Also the hours being 12 shifts 5 to 6 days a week there was little time outside of work to keep the reading and writing up to date.
I have since had to quit for health reasons, night shifts and I don't go together very well, and then spent December resting and getting back to my normal self.

I did some thinking before recommitting to this, just making sure this is really what I want to do and my previous reasons still stand. I still want to become more than just the Science major that I was in University. I still want to broaden my horizons and learn more about what has come before, to better understand what is now. I want to finish these list so I can move on to writing new AD lists, like Science fiction, Biography or History. This is why I continue to pursue these lists.