September 2024: What are you reading?

It's back to school season here in the US. What 1001 books are you studying?

I've just finished The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and will soon start Women in Love

I plan to concentrate on shorter books this month, less than 200 pages. I've started with Amok by Stefan Zweig. I've made a list of about 30 possibilities that I will be picking from randomly.

I am listening to Pierre et Jean on audio, and reading Night Boat to Tangier on paper.

I attempted to read The Death of Virgil because I am listening to The Aeneid on audio. But I failed. The book is TOO LONG to have page-long sentences, indeed more than a page long. I can cope with that in Beckett and Bernhard because they write short books. And entertaining ones. This was neither. Also, in the 100 pages that I read, the word "humus" was used at least four times. Yuck!
Do we think I can count this as read and give it a number just so I can write an irate review?
I cannot quite figure out why Broch wrote this book, which he apparently began in a German prison camp. OK, death. But, Virgil? Humus?

I'm reading Ben Lerner's 10:04. I enjoy the cool distancing and philosophizing. There are definitely some beautiful images.
Also, I sometimes get irritated with the writing which borders the pedantic. Passerine: that covers 6500 species of birds, Ben. While you're being specific with embers turning to ash maybe you can call a bird by its proper name :(

>5 annamorphic: I would count it. I have on a couple of books that I tried and could not finish for a number of reasons. Also, it helps me keep track of a book and why I did not finish.