Holiday List

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The pile of books to be read during the holidays is threatening to compete with ceiling-scrapers. There's nothing like a list to evaluate the impossibility of a task.

Books in:
-English:
How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker (565p)
Towards a Cognitive Semantics, vol. II, Leonard Talmy (482p)
The Search for the Perfect Language, Umberto Eco (353p)
Rethinking Innateness, Bates and al. (396p)
Icelandic, grammar, texts, glossary, Stefán Einarsson (293p)
Hyperion, Dan Simmons, (473p) - A novel, yes. These are supposed to be holidays.

- German:
Der Tod in Venedig, Thomas Mann, (139p) ("Death in Venice")
Ungarisch ohne Mühe, Assimil

- Icelandic:
Sumarljós og svo kemur nóttinn, Jón Kalman Stefánsson (214p) ("Summerlight, then comes the night")

- French:
Le hongrois dans la typologie des langues, Anna Sorés ("Hungarian in language typology")

- Hungarian:
A kis herceg, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ("the Little Prince")

- Latin:
De origine et situ germanorum, Cornelius Tacitus (36p) ("germania")

- Musical scores:
Variations études, Thierry Escaich (contemporary music)
Impromtu 4 op.90, Franz Schubert
Ma mère l'oie, Maurice Ravel
Sonata in c KV 457, Mozart
Sonata in C KV 545, Mozart

To this should be added:
- writing a ten-page review of Talmy's book
- working on my Master's Mémoire
- translating a few pages into French and English
- preparing the lessons for my students
- (perhaps) meeting friends, sleeping, eating

Thoroughly impossible. No need to mention that 70% of this list are not required by Uni or Work. I hope my failure will be a warning to other dragonflies who can't help visiting all flowers at once.

Joyeux Noël à tous !

Joyfully,

Dragonfly-en-chef