Because self is so shallow, self only picked books she was interested in reading (and that probably 75% of her acquaintances would not be interested in reading). Herewith, books self is interested in reading after perusing her brother-in-law’s copy of The New York Times book Review of 6 June 2010:
After reading Jay McInerney’s review of Ann Beattie’s new novel, Talks With Men:
- Ann Beattie’s new novel, Talks With Men
After reading Alida Becker’s review of a crop of new Travel Books:
- Binka Le Breton’s Where the Road Ends: A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest
- Rebecca Otowa’s At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman’s Journey of Discovery
- Frances Mayes’s latest memoir, Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life, as well as her earlier memoir, Under the Tuscan Sun
- Ann Vanderhoof’s previous book, An Embarrassment of Mangoes
After reading Danielle Trussoni’s review of Ted Mooney’s literary thriller, The Same River Twice:
- Ted Mooney’s The Same River Twice
After reading Marilyn Stasio’s “Crime” column, the following mysteries:
- Deborah Coonts’ Wanna Get Lucky, set in “the newest, most over-the-top megacasino/resort on the Las Vegas Strip.”
- Tarquin Hall’s newest Vish Puri mystery, The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
- Sophie Littlefield’s “down-home” mystery featuring “a female vigilante” in “rural Missouri,” A Bad Day for Pretty
- Elaine Viets’ newest mystery “featuring Helen Hawthorne, who left home when a heartless judge in St. Louis awarded her no-good husband half her future earnings,” Half-Price Homicide
After reading the end-paper essay, about books serendipitously encountered while residing for the summer at an abode not of one’s own, the following:
- Luigi Barzini’s The Italians, serendipitously encountered by Maile Meloy in a room “near Baratti, Italy”
- a translation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Rashomon and Other Stories, serendipitously encountered by David Rakoff in a “friend’s country house”
- John Fowles’ The Magus, serendipitously encountered by Miriam Toewes “in a bar by the beach” in Crete
- Avery Corman’s Kramer vs. Kramer, serendipitously encountered by Dave Eggers “in a cabin in Bodega Bay”
- Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed, serendipitously encountered by Cathleen Schine “in a drawer of a bedside table” when she was in Perugia “staying with a family and studying Italian.”
- Charles Portis’ Dog of the South, stolen by Arthur Bradford from a house “near Austin, Texas” that his family was renting (“I’m ashamed to say I stole it because it was so funny.”)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 