A word of warning: This is not your typical summer reading list. Truth
is, this is more a bucket list of books that I’ve been meaning to read and
summer, being the season of reading, they have inadvertently found their way to
this blogpost of More Summer Reading. Don’t consider this to be a list of any
particular order.
My Struggle, Vol. 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard. I typed Karl “Over” at first.
Which is true to a point, but I’m in through the previous three volumes, so
given my tendency to stick with it, I’m bound to take this to the end. (Now,
you’ve got a sense of what kind of reading list this is; you’ve had fair
warning – run for your life, indeed!)
The Power Broker by Robert Caro. This guy, Robert Moses, was a tyrant and
a real builder, in comparison to Donald Trump, Republican nominee for president,
who is a tyrant and a fake builder. In any event, I’ve been fascinated by the
life of Moses since I came to New York in 1988. (This book was published 14
years before that …)
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. A great literary friend of mine
recently recommended this novel to me. Freakishly, I’ve been turned off McCann
after the author wrote a feeble commentary in New York Magazine years ago, but
happily that cloud has lifted.
The Untouchable by John Banville. This guy can write. And we just happen
to have this paperback lying around the house.
Grendel by John Gardiner. For the point of view, as per the brilliant
suggestion of my wife, M. Who isn’t somewhat tired of Knausgaard-like
narrators?
That should take me to November or thereabouts … Am going to be trying
VERY hard not to let the political drama crowd out these page-turning ones !
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