Self added Utopia to her reading list, just today.
She figures, any book that manages to remain in continuous print for 500 years is surely worth reading.
She took this picture in another favorite place: the Philosophy section of Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino. She’s sure Thomas More would have been tickled pink to know that a young writer named China Miéville, in the 21st century, would be introducing his book by writing about how much he influenced her.
Her reading list for spring and summer goes something like this:
- Every Philip Pullman book written in the Dark Materials universe, starting with Volume One of his new trilogy The Book of Dust: La Belle Savauge
- Homer’s Odyssey
- Utopia
Yes, she is forsaking the contemporary, at least for now. Apologies about the heavy concentration on male writers. She’s on a quest to find books about islands, and she’s only just started her hunt. Women writers will appear, of course they will.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
