Summer Reading

I've been making progress on many of the novels I've purchased over the last four years that have sat on my shelves. If I had to place a guess, since November I've gotten about a third of the way through.

Today I read a good bit of the The Mayor of Casterbridge. I was reading it online courtesy of Project Gutenberg. More importantly, it was the web based interface that lead me to start using the project. In past, one had to download the entire text file in order to read the works, but now instead, they are all available through the HTML (meaning internet explorer) interface.

In either case, in an effort to not lose all contact with the academy, I've decided to start reading through Dowling's List of reading, on the suggestion of a few gentlemen we know.

My belief Is I will read these selections in conjunction with the remaining 2/3 of present fiction I have collected. Some titles from that selection include:

The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
Everything Burning*, Ian Spiegelman
Three Days as the Crow Flies*, Danny Simmons
The Frog King*, Adam Davies
Bandbox*, Thomas Mallon
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
Mailman*, Robert Lennon
You Shall Know Your Velocity, Dave Eggers
Say That To My Face, David Prete


* Indicates books I've started reading, but since have put down