booker street

summer reading

it seems that all i want to do these days is lay out in the sun (if it were to ever return) and read book after book. i'm grateful to have rediscovered a love of fiction and reading for pleasure. i suppose it has to do with the fact that i am no longer editing all day every day - for me, editing really killed the reader-for-pleasure in me.

anyway, right now i am slowly getting through I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe. i am enjoying it for sure, but it is terribly long. i bet wolfe could have cut it by 200 pages and still made the same very timely and scathing observations of college culture. i'd be done with it by now, if only he'd asked for my editorial input!

once finished with charlotte simmons, i plan to move on to one of these fabulous-sounding books:
The Stolen Child, by Keith Donohue
The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Stolen Prince, by Hugh Barnes

now to figure a way to get to the beach for a week or two for some summer reading!

posted by bls @ 10:56 AM