Readers Reading in April and Beyond ...
David's Reading Club
| April 26 | Fall 2001 | Spring 2002 |
Readers Reading in April and Beyond ...
David's Reading Club
| April 26 | Fall 2001 | Spring 2002 |
I will propose that we combine this with the Metamorphoses, or other work by Ovid, in any edition or translation you wish. (On a further note, I notice that a brand new novel by Jane Alison, The Love-Artist, is about to be published in April. It too is about the exile of Ovid, so perhaps one or two of us might read both works?)"Exiled from imperial Rome to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, Ovid, the irreverent Roman poet, encounters a feral child, who teaches him the language of nature."
And, I have been ambitious. Here are the titles you will find on the
2001-2002 reading list, with a tentative schedule ...
And here are some of the academic novels we might consider reading some
year, just as an exploration of our very own tidy little theme:
Has anyone else ever read one of my favorite academic novels -- truly grim,
but wonderful as I recall it -- Stoner, by John Williams (who also wrote
Augustus)?
Well, it is inspiring, isn't it? We have six or seven weeks of classes and
finishing up, and then maybe for a little while (just a few weeks, please
please please) we will have time for some reading. Perhaps you will want to
read some of the titles above and (even if it is only the first one) join us
on April 26 for cookies, milk, and reading.
August The Risk Pool by Richard Russo September The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman October Being Dead by Jim Crace November Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman December The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter January Dalva by Jim Harrison February The Untouchable by John Banville March The Passion by Jeannette Winterson April Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
These choices are always subject to change on the suggestions of the group.
I would like to have included some Nabokov, some Anne Tyler, some A. S.
Byatt, some additional Banville or Russo or Crace titles. Ordinary Love and
Good Will by Jane Smiley. There are also some recent and wonderful items
that will appear in paper before too long: Mi
Date revised
4/26/2001.
David Carr 