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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high!
...But you don't have to take my, or Lamar Burton's, word for it. Just take a look, it's in a book.
Currently reading
The Backstory of Wallpaper: Paper-Hangings 1650-1750
Progress:
5/183 pages
Death of a Gossip
Korean for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Korean (CD-ROM Included)
Visualize This: The Flowing Data Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
Discovering Statistics Using R
Pushkin House (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Beginner's Korean
La Nouvelle Héloïse: Julie, or the New Eloise
Edith Wharton
Linear Models with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)
Jude the Obscure (Wordsworth Classics)
Having finally finished this book after a long hiatus, I can see why Hardy gave up writing fiction after completing this work! I can see paternal resemblances in Jude, which only seemed to bring a more somber reading to the text, and hope that things turn out well for the character, at least in his relation to his cousin Sue. Given that this is a Hardy story, I shouldn't have been too surprise at the depressing, albeit realistic, ending and that the story seemed to drag on, with the characters seeming impossible to improve or learn anything along the way. This, plus the 'will I, won't I' nature of Sue, made it hard to pick of the book and continue reading.