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Finally doing this Infinite Summer thing #infsum

Well look at me, getting into this Infinite Summer fad. On September 5th. Because that's how I roll. I write my college papers at 3am the day they are due, I buy your birthday present on the way to your party, and I read Infinite Jest in less than three weeks.

Maybe.

Anyway, I am going to try to do some catching up and read the previous summaries and posts as I progress along. I made my own little schedule based on the summaries already posted, complete with links for my own convenience. Thank you, Me.

Date	Page	Percentage Complete	DONE
06/17/09	73	7%	X
07/04/09	147	14%	X
07/11/09	221	22%	X
07/18/09	295	30%	X
07/25/09	369	37%	X
08/01/09	443	45%	X
08/08/09	516	52%	X
08/15/09	590	60%	X
08/22/09	664	67%	X
08/29/09	738	75%	X
09/05/09	812	82%

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24 Aug

Time to revisit Vonnegut

I was at the book store the other day and came across Armageddon in Retrospect, a posthumously published collection of short stories relating to war and peace by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. I was not aware of this publication (it was released in 2008) and it made me realize how long it had been since I had read anything by Vonnegut. It also made me realize that, despite being my favorite author, I had barely scratched the surface of his oeuvre. Unacceptable!

So after "Project Actually Reading Infinite Jest" is finished I think I will start "Project Read All of Vonnegut's Novels and Short Stories." Possibly in chronological order. Probably not back to back because I have massive a backlog of nonfiction to read.

Novels

Player Piano (1952)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Mother Night (1961)
Cat's Cradle (1963)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; or, Pearls before Swine (1965)
Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969)
Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More (1976)
Jailbird (1979)
Deadeye Dick (1982)
Galápagos (1985)
Bluebeard (1987)
Hocus Pocus (1990)
Timequake (1997)

Collections of short stories and essays

Canary in a Cathouse (1961)
Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works (1968)
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974)
Palm Sunday (1981)
Fates Worse than Death (1991)
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999)
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008, posthumous)
Look at the Birdie (2009, posthumous)

I can barely remember God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. And I think I read Player Piano...anyway, this should keep me busy for awhile.

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