Today I went to the library. Not only did I go to return an audio book (Masterpieces of short romantic fiction or something like that, one of the cassettes was broken) and to get a new audio book (The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson), but also to get some novels. Oh, how I miss reading novels! I’ve been reading New Yorkers and Money Magazine and Credit Union Journal and The Language Instinct by Stephen Pinker, but I am craving a novel! I didn’t have my “books to read” list with me, but I remembered two titles from book reviews: The New Yorkers (not to be confused with the magazine, it’s a novel about people in New York who relate through their dogs), and Three Bags Full, a sheep detective story (don’t even ask). I also put in a request for the next Patrick O’Brian on my list, Desolation Island. And, I picked one off the shelf by Vikram Seth, An Equal Music. Did anyone else read A Suitable Boy? I loved that book and would read it again, all 1400 plus pages (I think I read somewhere that it is the longest novel in English!) Lately, all my favorite novelists have been Indian. Anyway, I’ll be bringing An Equal Music on my next plane trip and will report back.
La Biblioteque
April 26, 2008 by meg33
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