New Year's Resolution: Reading Roman History

I am so excited about Dennis's proposal to read through Roman history in 2011! Here's his blog post setting out the idea. He figured that it would be possible to get through all of Mommsen AND Merivale AND Gibbon over the course of a year by reading 30 pages a day. Sure enough, it's right... on the one hand it sounds so daunting, but very do-able, too!

So, I started up a blog to keep track of my own reading notes and progress, along with a Google Calendar to help me keep track of what to read. I'm curious if we will end up with a group discussion space, too, but I really like the idea of having a blog for my own reading notes. And who knows what kind of reading log that might turn into next year and the year after, too! I sure have a hankering to read all of Augustine's City of God, and I bet I will feel even more strongly about that after immersing myself in Roman history over the coming year.

Here's the blog: Reading Roman History. Plus, I already had a fun Roman Emperors widget... now I will have a lot more personal knowledge to go along with that widget! :-)