You may have noticed a book on my bookshelf below has been there since January. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I started reading it in January as part of a group project with other DCC students and professors who had a plan to read it and then discuss it outside of class. Well, at 1000 pages with more than 100 pages of footnotes, it soon became the Infinite Joke. I was taking five classes and working full time! There really wasn't much time to read it, and after talking to other participants, I didn't feel too bad. They were all in the same boat and those meetings we planned never happened. Still, I trudged trough. Today I am up to page 500! Halfway!
Today is not only the first day of Summer, and Father's Day (Happy Father's Day Guy!), it is also the first day of Infinite Summer! A much larger group of people web-wide are now reading this together. If you read 75 pages a week from now to the first day of fall, September 21, you will have read the entire book! Here are some links to keep you going:
The official website of Infinite Summer with many more links regarding the book itself:
www.infinitesummer.org
A cool app that keeps track of your page count:
www.infinite-summer.appspot.com
The author, David Foster Wallace, was a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, but sadly after suffering depression for most of his life, took his own life late last year. This has created new buzz for Infinite Jest, often considered his masterpiece. You can read more about him at his unofficial website: http://www.davidfosterwallace.com/
Enjoy this longest day of the year, and celebrate the summer season with a good read. Keep me posted of your progress. I'll try to keep you posted on my own progress at the bottom of my blog throughout the summer.
IJ: 504
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