LITERATURE: Up Next – A toss-up of fine reading

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Susan

With Oscar Wao behind me, and Alice Munro's Moons of Jupiter almost finished, I'm considering my next pull from the shelves.

Will it be DeFoe's Moll Flanders, Ibsen's A Doll's House, one of Sinclair Lewis, perhaps Babbit, or Jose Saramago's Blindness.

And as for a short story simultaneous read, likely the Works of Chekhov.

What a lovely luxury, of fingering the books in one's own library to find a selection that suits any mood.

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4 Responses to LITERATURE: Up Next – A toss-up of fine reading

  1. Creechman says:
    December 5, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Read “Uncle Vanya” again. Then check out my YouTube of Sonya’s Speech. 🙂

  2. susan says:
    December 5, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    Will do–if it’s included in the volume I have.

  3. Pete says:
    December 6, 2008 at 10:09 am

    I haven’t read Blindness yet – my wife did, said it was great but grim, and immediately put it on my to-read shelf – so if you go with that first I’d suggest Babbitt next to cleanse your palette.

  4. susan says:
    December 6, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    I’m enjoying it so far–just finished Chapter 1. Babbitt was a close second choice and it’ll likely be read right after this, and the promised Faulkner.

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