Finally!!!

After several months of tackling Cervantes' Don Quixote, I have finally completed it. Wow! What a book! Adventuresome, difficult, complex, exciting, boring, vicious, romantic, slapstick humorous, you name it. I walked into this book only knowing about Don Quixote's crazy attack on the 'giant' windmills, I finished the book having learned MUCH, MUCH more. It certainly is a difficult work but quite rewarding, too. If you are considering reading this book, take it in small 'bites'.

I'm following a classical curriculum approach to reading the great classics. It recommends that you read each classic not just once but three times through. You look for different things each time you read it. So, it's taken me about 4 months to read through Don Quixote the first time, hopefully, the second and third times will go much, much quicker. I'm wondering if Don Quixote and his zany cast of characters do anything 'different' this time around. ;)