Tuesday Weld reading.
and walk over the the nearest bookcase or pile of books. What book do you reread on a rainy Saturday?
My choice: THAT NIGHT by Alice McDermott. I was knocked out by this in the nineties. Would I still be?
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The Big Sleep or A Moveable Feast. I reread very little.
On any given Sunday I'll be at work – reading whenever there's a free moment, though I'll probably be reading something new (and trying to work down my TBR pile).
Whoops - meant to say "Saturday." I don't work Sundays (yet).
Sherlock Holmes short stories. It fits a rainy day.
I think a good Louis L'Amour western, maybe "To Tame a Land."
I am hard pressed to choose one book for rereading on a rainy Saturday night, so I suppose I would have to choose from two books that are widely different in their themes, content, and quality:
(1) Flannery O'Connor's short stories (collected the Library of America edition but originally published in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everythng That Rises Must Converge.
(2) Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
I'd have to see the pile/stack. There's too much to read and reread.
Would I still be? Maybe that's a reason not to read it.
Short stories are excellent for rereads. The time commitment isn't as great.
Hey what's this new flurry about A MOVEABLE FEAST. I need to read up on it but there's some question over his satisfaction with this version.
A. E. Hotchner has written about A MOVEABLE FEAST--in its new version--at The New York Times, and I've linked to the article and commented briefly on the issue at my blog: NOVELS, STORIES, AND MORE.
The bottom line is this: Ernest Hemingway's grandson has revised A MOVEABLE FEAST as a way of mitigating family reputations, and the publisher (Scribner) seems to have no problem with a corrupted, subjectively altered version of the otherwise perfectly acceptable and correct original. Read more via Hotchner.
That's the article I was thinking about. Thanks.
TALK OF THE NATION on NPR tomorrow intends to have a segment on which teen books would one like to reread.
I don't think I read teen books. I don't think they had them in the sixties when I was a teen. I remember marching from the children's section to the adult section at age 12. I wonder...maybe this will jog my memory though.
Dell Laurel Leaf started in the early '60s...they and Scholastic's TAB (Teen Age Books) lines were the pioneers, I think.
Newbery winners are an oddly mixed lot. Some a lot less kidsy than others.
I can always reread P.G. Wodehouse, Jack Vance, Jane Austen, and Samuel Johnson with delight.
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