finished.

page 1,000.

half-way.

Finally reached page 500!

Making headway in Clarissa... but 215 pages in and I feel like I'm still in the intro.

"If you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself."

- Samuel Johnson on Clarissa, 1755

Side note: I just realized that it looks like I'm wearing the exact same outfit in this picture as in the last one. In my defense, I am a poor college student, I have two look-alike sweaters, and this is a favorite scarf. Just in case anyone was wondering haha

As I embark on the longest book I have ever dared to read... I thought I'd incorporate it into my blog.

So I'll be posting photo updates of where I'm at.

Coming in at just under one million words, Clarissa is really intimidating me.

My professor introduced it today as "the marathon of English literature."

So here it is, Clarissa at the beginning =)

[i apologize, my computer only takes mirror images]