It's On...Again

For those of you who have kept up with my other blogs in the past, you will be familiar with my failed attempts at the ML Challenge.  For you newcomers out there, I will explain to you what this is:  The ML Challenge is an attempt to read all the works listed on one of Modern Library's sponsored "100 Best" Lists.  One can choose from the "Board's 100," the "Readers' 100," "100 Non-fiction," or even the "Radcliffe Rival 100."  Last summer I tried the "Board's 100" -- the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century as selected  by the Modern Library Board -- and failed.  That list began with The Magnificent Ambersons, followed by The Ginger Man, which I simply put down one day and never picked back up.  This semester, however, my reading load is light as seems by general work load, so I am attempting to plow through the "Readers' 100," the 100 best of the 20th century as chosen by the general populace who voted on ML.com.  Democracy at work.  Check below the cut for my progress so far, the problems inherent with the list, and a link to the list itself.  

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