Bleh.

[icepixie]

Sigh. If only our Civil War reading for History of the South was Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South instead of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels. KA is a good book (at least for the 20 pages I've read so far), but I haven't already read it. If we had the Turtledove, I could just refamiliarize myself with it briefly, instead of reading ~400 pages for one class this weekend. (Yes, I know, GotS isn't exactly historical. Still! It's the same deal! Close enough! Mostly! < /whining > Dude, my LJ, my fantasy world. That's the kind of book I'd assign for this class...) And this is on top of finishing Slonczewski's book for Bio in Sci-Fi, which is 200 pages more for this weekend. *shudder*

But at least we have more Yeats for Irish Lit. And we're done with The Last September after tomorrow! Wheeee!!!

I have determined that the last week of October and the first week of November are going to be my hell weeks for the semester. I have a midterm in history on the 29th, a test in Bio the 30th, and a paper for Irish Lit. on the 4th. Meep. So, so, so very glad I'm not going to Cornell for the ballroom comp. this weekend. Must...work...

Comments

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

Look at it this way, Shaara was an English prof at FSU, so you've got a weird connection to me when you read the book. Plus it's a good read, if not wholly respected within the history community. :)

[icepixie]

Oh, I agree, it's a good read so far (I'm at page 60 or so), I'm just tired of reading, period, at the moment. Ugh. (I never thought I would say that. Look what college has done to me...) Cool that Shaara was a prof at FSU. Totally makes sense that he was an English prof, not a history one. ;)