Saturday, April 27, 2024

Daily Devotional Readings

Keeping this list at the bottom of each Daily Devotional Reading has become a bit unwieldy, so I'm going to put it here on its own from now on. Now in Larger Font Size!


DDR Day 1 to 1,000: 13,449 pages read, 13.45 Average Pages Per Day

(1-11)  History of Philosophy Volumes I - XI
(12-14) History of Civilization in England Volumes I - III
(15-17) Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas
Buckle Volumes I - III
(18-20) Civilization and Capitalism, 16th - 18th Century Volumes I - III
(21-23) The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age Philip IIl Volumes I - III
(24) This Happened In My Presence: Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of Deza, 1569-1611
(25)The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates
(26) Peat and Peat Cutting
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DDR Day 1,001 to Day 2,000: 29,801pages, 29.8 Average Pages Per Day

(1) Leviathan 63 days, 729 pages
(2) Stalingrad 27 days, 982 pages
(3) Life and Fate 26 days, 880 pages
(4) The Second World War 34 + 32 + 40 + 43 + 31 + 32 days = 212 
days, 4,379 pages
(5) Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming 10 days, 572 pages
(6) The Great Bridge 25 days, 636 pages
(7) The Path Between the Seas 29 days, 698 pages
(8) Blake: Prophet Against Empire, 23 days, 523 pages
(9) Jerusalem 61 days, 1,266 pages
(10) Voice of the Fire 9 days, 320 pages
(11) The Fountainhead 15 days, 720 pages
(12) The Pacific Trilogy: Pacific Crucible 23 days, 640 pages
(13) The Pacific Trilogy: The Conquering Tide 28 days, 656 pages
(14) The Pacific Trilogy: Twilight of the Gods 31 days, 944 pages
(15) Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence 13 days, 304 pages
(16) Toward Jazz 18 days, 224 pages
(17) The Worlds of Jazz 13 days, 279 pages
(18) To Be or Not...to Bop 14 days, 571 pages
(19) Kind of Blue 4 days, 224 pages
(20) Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and his Masterpiece: 5 days, 256 
pages
(21) Miles: The Autobiography 16 days, 445 pages
(21) A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature 
Album: 8 days, 287 pages
(22) Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest 8 days, 304 pages
(23) Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings 11 days 325 pages
(24) The Pickwick Papers 28 days, 983 pages
(25) Oliver Twist 16 days, 542 pages
(26) Nicholas Nickleby 27 days, 1,045 pages
(27) The Old Curiosity Shop 22 days, 753 pages
(28) Barnaby Rudge 24 days, 866 pages
(29) Master Humprhey's Clock 4 days, 145 pages
(30) Martin Chuzzlewit 32 days, 1,045 pages
(31) American Notes 10 days, 324 pages
(32) Pictures From Italy 7 days, 211 pages
(33) Christmas Stories Volume I 10 days, 456 pages
(34) Christmas Stories Volume II 15 days, 472 pages
(35) Christmas Books 17 days, 525 pages
(36) The Annotated Christmas Carol 7 days, 380 pages
(37) Dombey and Son 30 days, 1,089 pages
(38) Sketches by Boz 22 days, 834 pages

2nd 1K Total: 26,834 pages (to SBBII) = 28.76 Average Pages Per Day
Grand Total: 40,273 pages, 20.83 Average Pages Per Day

(39) David Copperfield 21 days, 1,092 pages
(40) The Uncommercial Traveller 12 days, 440 pages
(41) A Child's History of England 10 days, 491 pages
(42) Reprinted Pieces 14 days, 368 pages
(43) Miscellaneous Papers Volume I 18 days, 542 pages

+ 25 pages Bleak House and 9 pages Miscellaneous Papers II = 2,000 days' worth.

2nd 1K Total: 29,801pages = 29.8 Average Pages Per Day
Grand Total: 43,250 pages, 21.625 Average Pages Per Day

DDR Day 2,001 to Day 3,000:

(1) Miscellaneous Papers Volume II 28 days (don't count, while 
reading BH), 494 pages
(2) Bleak House 37 days, 1,098 pages

494 - 9 = 485 + 1098 - 25 = 1073 = 1,558 pages towards 3K...in 37 days, for a daily rate of 42+ pages (!).

(3) Hard Times 11 days, 459 pages
(4) Little Dorrit 29 days, 1,606 pages
(5) A Tale of Two Cities 9 days, 460 pages
(6) Great Expectations 16 days, 580 pages
(7) Our Mutual Friend 29 days, 1,057 pages
(8) The Mystery of Edwin Drood 6 days, 314 pages

FTR vis-a-vis Dickens: 18,671 pages in 468 days = 39.9 pages per day!

(9) Dickens and Kafka, 7 days, 315 pages
(10) Franz Kafka: A Biography 8 days, 267 pages
(11) The Frozen Sea: A Study of Franz Kafka 5 days, 198 pages
(12) Franz Kafka, A Writer's Life 12 days, 385 pages
(13) The Lost Writings 2 days, 138 pages
(14) Amerika: The Missing Person 11 days, 333 pages
(15) The Brothers Karamazov 24 days, 816 pages
(16) The Eternal Husband & Other Stories 8 days, 375 pages
(17) Poor Folk 5 days, 164 pages
(18) The Double 4 days, 190 pages
(19) The Landlady 3 days, 90 pages
(20) Netochka Nezvanova 6 days, 196 pages
(21) The Village of Stepanchikovo 8 days, 265 pages
(22) Uncle's Dream 4 days, 162 pages
(23) The Insulted and the Injured 14 days, 451 pages
(24) Notes From a Dead House 8 days, 327 pages
(25) Notes From Underground 4 days, 171 pages
(26) Crime and Punishment 13 days, 555 pages
(27) The Gambler 10 days, 405 pages
(28) The Idiot 21 days, 682 pages 
    
    4,849 total Dostoyevsky pages as of now

(29) A Poetics of Handel's Operas 12 days, 386 pages
(30) Blue Lard 8 days, 360 pages
(31) Opera as Hypermedium 0 days (overlap), 198 pages
(32) Why Do the Heathen Rage? 4 days, 191 pages
(33) Wellness 7 days, 608 pages
(34) The Shadow of the Wind 10 days, 487 pages
(35) The Angel's Game 6 days, 531 pages
(36) The Prisoner of Heaven 3 days, 278 pages
(37) The Labyrinth of Spirits 19 days, 805 pages
(38) The City of Mist 2 days, 162 pages
(39) The Prince of Mist 2 days, 214 pages
(40) The Midnight Palace 4 days, 298 pages
(41) The Watcher in the Shadows 3 days, 262 pages
(42) Marina 4 days, 326 pages
(43) Pandaemonium, 1660-1886 13 days, 415 pages
(44) Collected Essays (1893-1894) by Thomas Henry Huxley 28 days, 905 pages (Volumes 1 and 2)
(45) Heavy Planet + Close to Critical 17 days, 598 pages
(46) The Light Eaters 8 days, 290 pages
(47) Collected Essays (1893-1894) by Thomas Henry Huxley 14 + 13 days, 460 + 388 pages (Volumes 3 and 4)
(48) La Vita Nuova "0" days, 123 pages
(49) Dante For Beginners 5 days, 180 pages
(50) The Divine Comedy 29 days, 920 pages
(51) Anathem 15 days, 994 pages
(52) My Struggle Book One 9 days, 441 pages
(53) The Possessed / The Devils 23 days, 736 pages
(54) My Struggle Book 2 "0"days, 573 pages 
(55) Herscht 07769 10 days, 406 pages
(56) My Struggle Book 3  6 days, 427 pages
(57) Patriot: A Memoir (Моя история) 9 days, 479 pages
(58) Slow Horses 3 days, 360 pages
(59) Dead Lions 4 days, 347 pages
(60) Standing by the Wall 3 days, 293 pages
(61) Real Tigers 3 days, 361 pages
(62) Spook Street 2 days, 341 pages
(63) London Rules 3 days, 327 pages
(64) Joe Country 3 days, 338 pages
(65) Slough House 3 days, 302 pages
(66) Bad Actors 3 days, 344 pages
(67) The Adolescent 18 days, 607 page
        Summa Theologica 3 days, 40 pages and OUT
        The City of God 22 days, 400 pages and OUT
(68) Blaise Cendrars Complete Poems 7 days, 296 pages
(69) My Seditious Heart 23 days, 1,000 pages
(70) Plays 34 days, 1,927 pages
(71) Thy Will Be Done 9 days, 262 pages
(72) The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus by Marvin Meyer 3 days, 120 pages.
(73) Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts by John Dominic Crossan & Jonathan L. Reed 9 days, 317 pages.
(74) Secret Gospels: Essays on Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark by Marvin Meyer 5 days, 200 pages.
(75) The Bible Doesn't Say That 7 days, 302 pages
(76) The Unknown Sayings of Jesus: A Treasury of Aphorisms, Parables, and Teachings From Early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Sources 3 days, 200 pages
(77) The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant 16 days, 541 pages
(78) The Man Without Qualities Volume I 24 days, 725 pages

= 35,185 pages Holy 🐄, is that right? That's closing in on what I read from Day 1 to Day 2,000.  43.86 pages per day. 
Must recheck math.

(79) The Man Without Qualities 
Volume II 20 days, 552 pages (stopped on page number 1,271)
(80) Queer 3 days, 150 pages
(81) Junky 2 days, 228 pages
(82) The Yage Letters 3 days, 184 pages
(83) The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament 6+ days, 379 pages
(84) Naked Lunch 4 days, 289 pages
(85) The Soft Machine 3 days, 70 pages Quit
(86) The Longest Silence 11 days, 378 pages
(87) Gould's Book of Fish 11 days, 404 pages
(88) DDR: The Substance of Reality: Moral Perfectionism in Shakespeare's Hamlet 5 days, 210 pages
(89) Twelfth Night by William Shake-speare 5 days, 236
(90) Four Shakespearean Period Pieces by Margaret de Grazia 7 days, 248 pages
(91) Macbeth by William Shake-speare 4 days, 238 pages.
(92) Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run by Peter Ames Carlin 3 days, 238 pages
(93) Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat by Jan Zielonka 5 days, 186 pages
(94) Life After Life by Raymond A. Moody Jr., M.D. 3 days, 202 pages
(95 & 96) Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare Volumes I&II 43 days, 1,523 pages
  

() The Nix __ days, 737 pages

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