Mission Statement: A Year of Reviews

Hello Robowebs! This is a declaration of intent to partake in the 52 Books in 52 Weeks project. I'm inspired to do this by my reading-crazy family, and especially by my Mom, Catherine F. Coe, whose own 52-blog can be found at http://msfin.wordpress.com, and has been ongoing for some months. I myself am Fin Coe, a senior THTR/ENGL undergrad at Case Western Reserve University; my current jetsetting exploits can be tracked over at my Travel Blog, but during the school year, I study, act, do improv, and perhaps most pertinently, work at my campus library, and come in contact with (and subsequently devour) a lot of books. I figure, why not go ahead and work on my writing skills by articulating my thoughts and feelings on some of these books? I don't know if anyone will actually read this, so I won't imagine that this will necessarily benefit anyone, but hey, maybe.

A rundown of my Current & To-Read Combined List:
C.S. Forster: Admiral Hornblower - the final book of the series!
Tamora Pierce: The Circle of Magic - Reread, I think I have all four.
Pierce: The Circle Opens - I have, and have read, about half.
Pierce: The Will of the Empress - The Culmination (I believe) of this Pierce series.
Pierce: The Circle Reforged - ??? I don't know quite how this ties in to the above, or where it goes chronologically.
Garth Nix: Across the Wall - Now that I've finished the Abhorsen Trilogy, I'll round it out with the associated short story collection.
Jack Kerouac: On The Road - Reading Now.
Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises - Just about done...
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife - I got about two-thirds of the way through a while back, but I reckon that "my copy" is also my Mum's copy, and therefore sitting on my bookshelf back in Cleveland. Hmm. I think I'd need to start from the beginning again anyway.
Robin McKinley: Chalice - Seeing as how I enjoyed Sunshine so much, and there is, heh, definitively not going to be a sequel (although I can also hope for something more, if not continuous, from that nifty universe), I figure I should check out her newest. The premise (and the language used in it - I love made-up/retroarchaic terminology) sounds very cool indeed.
Joss Whedon: Serenity Comics - I should really see if I can get ahold of the various comics that have carried on the Firefly/Serenity Storyline. I remember reading that one graphic novel that bridged the series and the show, but I'd like my knowledge to be a bit more complete.
Tolkien and Son: The Silmarillion - Glorious, started it in the Winter, can't wait to finish it.
Iain M. Banks: The Algebraist - Reading now. Hugo Winner? Banks is such an interesting chap. I think I prefer his non-M. (i.e., no scifi) fiction, but we'll see where the Algebraist takes me.
Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well - The grads are doing this in the Fall, and I'm auditioning for it.
Wendy Wasserstein: The Heidi Chronicles - We're doing this in the Fall. That said, I can probably read Leah's copy over the summer.
Alfred Uhry: The Last Night of Ballyhoo - We're doing this in the Spring, but it can't hurt to read it now.

So for the purposes of this blog, and considering I have to go pack light for a trip I leave for tomorrow morning, let's prune and try to prioritize this:
The Algebraist
The Sun Also Rises
Across The Wall
On The Road
Admiral Hornblower
The Silmarillion
The Circle of Magic

So I'll read/finish those over the course of the next few weeks. In the meantime, whether I'll have the Internet access to weblish or not, I'll be writing reviews of my most recent reads.

fin