"Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."

-- First sentence of Cervantes, *Don Quixote*

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Started this morning. Reading notes will be tucked in this thread.

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With my reading routines really out of joint, I had a hard time deciding where to go next. I decided to take a hard left and start Don Quixote.

Over the last few months, just about every book I've read has mentioned Quixote in one way or another, fiction and NF and even one book of poetry. I'd taken it for a sign and bought the Grossman translation a month ago. I already like it quite a bit more than another translation I had from a while back.

This will be my first full read-through, though I've read a number of its more famous scenes and passages -- and of course know the general story pretty well. Plan to read pretty casually, three or four chapters a day, which means it should take a month or thereabouts.