Finished Gatsby, yay!

I finished The Great Gatsby last night and almost cried. What a wonderful book. And such clear, succinct writing. I can't wait to read more Fitzgerald - I almost picked up Tender is the Night at Half Price Books last night but decided I could probably get it from the library. I need to be better about not buying books that are available at the library. But sometimes I just really want to own them, you know? So I can reread them or just look at them. Or put them in my LibraryThing.

But anyway, these are the books I bought:
Emma, Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Prep, Curtis Sittenfield
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson

Yayyy. I am very excited about all of them and am currently reading Emma, which is okay so far but it always takes me a while to get into these kinds of books. I need to make a list of the books I want to read in order so I don't keep buying new ones and skipping around and half-starting a lot of them and then moving on, etc. That is messy. I don't want it to be.

Also I am going to change my sidebar from "book recs" to "books completed in summer 2007". That way I can keep track of what I have read. It is going to be great.

I have some sort of terrible cold thing that has rendered me mostly unable to breathe. I really, really have to finish my chem stuff tonight so I can focus solely on my calc final. And I need to email my professor about my summer research paper, which is going to be really daunting because I also have to read 3-4 books (at least) for

I started Herodotus's Histories in Borders last night and it is pretty good (he is actually pretty funny), but it is definitely slow going. And I despair at the thought of having to read something like that AND write a paper on it (what would you even WRITE about? Seriously?) every single week. I am really worried Yale is going to be a lot harder than I think it is. I mean, I know it is going to be hard, but I also feel like it will be manageable. I hope it is not a terrible surprise.

Also, they had no Nabokov at Half Price last night, which was devastating. I really liked Lolita and wanted to read Pale Fire or something along those lines.