I bow before you Akili! I wanted to read all the Shakespeare plays so many times, but never got around doing it. I think I might have read about 6 of them?
I want to read one this year, finally!
I'll make it "A Summer Night's Dream" :)

One of my friends tried to produce Midsummer Night's Dream back in school, just as a for fun project that used the school's stuff (you could always convince the teachers to let you use school stuff if it was framed even remotely educational, the poor teachers were always so thrilled to see students volunteer for anything at all), but as I recall it all kind of fell apart. We probably could have just done the play-within-a-play part and had it work out, but she wanted to direct AND play Puck, which meant doing the full actual play itself, and the rest of us were simply not that enthusiastic!
I kind of regret that now, it would have been nice to do it anyhow to support her.

Aw Akili, but that's a long time ago. And let's be honest: we had other priorities at school. Your friend was probably a little bit too eager, wanting to both direct and perform.

Seems like eveyone has a tough start this year :D Or everybody is too busy to write it down in this thread :P

I am halfway through HP1 in Russian and English. Yaaay :D

I've been sick all week, and my husband and dog were sick the week before, so I have hardly gotten any reading done yet this year.

I weirdly just read "Night of the Twelfth" (instead of Twelfth Night), which is a modern British police procedural/mystery/thriller thing. Although it does have some schoolboys who put on "Twelfth Night" as a play in it.

But I haven't made much progress on my actual monthly goals. Read some other stuff, but not the ones I wanted to read to sort of stretch my usual reading out a little. Month is almost half over, I need to get to it!

Sanssouci, get well soon!
(and your avi is super crazy btw!)

I noticed a few interesting thing about the Russian translation actually. There are a few translation techniques which a translator usually abides to or can use, the Russian one also did that. He made use of commented translation and analogy formation mostly, but also translated the words directly. Through commented translation the book is a lot thicker than the original.