Gotta Blog.
I am doing a bad job of blogging recently but i'm doing a poorish job of reading too! so, BTT for 1/27 was about big books What’s the largest, thickest, heaviest book you ever read? Was it because you had to? For pleasure? For school? well for pleasure, Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope is 848 pages in the Penguin edition. Under the Dome and The Stand , both by Steven King, are 1074 and 1141 pages respectively. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien is 1216 pages. The Passage by Justin Cronin was a shorter 784 pages but felt longer. The two volume set i have of the complete Sherlock Holmes stories comes in at 1856 pages if i am allowed to count that! Then again, can i count series? in that case, Harry Potter's total page count is 4178 judging the paperbacks. As for school, i honestly can't remember back that far. i know in college and my last couple years of high school my teachers seemed to be more of the opinion that reading 4-5 short books, 200-300 p