Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Dostoyevsky Is Not Considered Summer Reading

Summer Reading:

1. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - The charming correspondence between a New Yorker and an English book dealer.

2. The Professor & the Madman by Simon Winchester - Truth is stranger than fiction. A tale of murder, insanity & the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Caution: there are some disturbing elements to the madness.

3. Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard, S.J. - The story of an English Jesuit on the mission under Elizabeth I & James I. It reads like a suspense novel. Some editions have an introduction by Graham Greene.

4. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K.Jerome - Delightful Victorian humor.

5. Wodehouse on Crime - P.G.Wodehouse - One of the better anthologies; sure to please.

6. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle - Laugh out loud. The first in a great series.

7. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson - Ditto.

8. Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene