Summer Reading, for the Week of July 28

I started reading through The Story and Its Writer last night. The first story I read was by Sherman Alexie (author of Ten Little Indians). The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven was rather enjoyable. The Second story I read was by Woody Allen about a City College Professor who through the use of a magician is teleported into novels.

Both stories were quite good, and I would certainly read more stories by Allen, who I had no idea did anything but movies set in New York. Alexie concerns me though since I'm not sure if I should expect the other stories he's written to be as exciting as the one I just read.

Also last night I went to Barnes and Noble and bought Don Quixote, the Norton Critical Reading edition. I hope this translation doesn't suck.

I've also been reading the Penguin Classics edition of the Canterbury Tales. I bought and started this back in high school and as I was reading the prologue I found my old book mark. I'm now up the The Miller's Tale, so I'm doing a lot better than when I was 17.

Finally, I've been reading Jude the Obscure. Despite what I have heard, its not comparison to Tess Of The D'Urbervilles or the Mayor of Casterbridge, both novels that I enjoyed.