you're a tourist here.

i decided to take up this challenge months ago with the technical addendum that i would go through peter boxall's list (as found in this most comprehensive version i could find here) randomly by generating a number between, well, 1 and 1001 and reading that specific book. however, my first pick was some 1700s pulp novel about some clock or some cuckoo bird or a cuckoo clock i don't even know some bird or some shit. so understandably i settled into a period of procrastination and ennui. that is, until i finally finished persuasion yesterday, which i began at the beginning of 2018, in a bid to finish my 50 books goal for this year's goodreads challenge.

i figured what better way to start a new and coming year by taking up a challenge that i know i'm gonna give up on for 85% of the year and only pick up at the latter part for another new year in order to satisfy my general urge to feel useful and worldly?

i meant this post to be a masterlist as i slowly work my way through this challenge. so far, i've read 19 books out of 1000-something, so we're going to be here awhile.

bolded is what i've read. click the links for more thots...