My Current Reading Goals

I have updated "My Reading List" and "On the Night Stand."

The books that are "On the Night Stand" are ones that I am attempting to read/study, all at the same time.

• I'm doing a non-Precepts approach to the Precepts course "Sermon on the Mount." Basically, I'll be reading the Sermon and sqeezing every drop of meaning out of the passage that I can. I am using the Precepts material as a guide, but I'm not highlighting or anything. That is in part because I do not want to destroy the Precepts book and need to copy the passage that it gives at the end of the book.
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader (what a captivating title), I will aim to complete a chapter/day, average.  Once I start Out of the Silent Planet, it may go similarly.
• Failure is Not an Option is my other primary reading for now. I hate to admit that I'm not aiming to read it too deeply (memorize dates, at all), but give it a surface reading, such that I know about what happens, then reference it for timeline, later. I'm aiming to read a few chapters per week.
• For O. Henry, I'm aiming to finish at least one story per week.
• Programming with Java in 24 Hours I'm doing because I was going to take the class for my minor this semester, but didn't want the pressure of keeping up with tests and assignments, so I'm studying it on my own. My pace will be something on the order of an "hour" a week (a chapter a week). This may be the equivalent of 2 semesters to get through this book, but I don't care. This is something I want to do. I've already had a programming class, last semester, so I dont' think this will be too difficult. The most difficulty I've had so far is loading the programs on and getting the compiler into the PATH.
• Jane Austen I'm reading when I get the chance to sit down with my stepmother for a few hours. I know there are books on tape, but, due to circumstances beyond my control, I owe the library a bit of money, right now and I'm not eager to get back into that situation.
• EA Poe, I'm reading as I get around to it.
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is also one that I will reading as the mood strikes. I really need to finish that installment, as I'm over half-way through, I believe.

Regi G