Very very interesting. I usually struggle to read posts over 1000 words, but tha tone was pretty easy. Are you going to publish these as a collection like O'Henry or are you just kind of doing them as fun? If you are looking to publish, there was a point where he said he was going to read a page every ten days, but then there was this line:

reading one passage each day

I'm guessing I just missed something, but I wanted to point it out just in case.