Friday, December 22, 2006

Two (plus one) new books in the former native speaker's library

Just the facts:

And from last time:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do all of these new books get read, and if not, are there statistics available for the proportion of read to unread?

Jonathan Benda said...

No statistics, but some get read cover-to-cover and some get dipped into for research purposes. I've read portions of Gelley and Bakhtin already (the introductions and some passages that the books' indices led me to). I have a plan (a dream, more likely) to read all my unread books cover-to-cover once I finish my dissertation. But I keep buying books--I seem to be my own worst enemy!