Packing for a vacation ...
I’ve got a few days of vacation planned and some of it will include lazy hours of uninterrupted reading -- I hope! What to take along?
I consulted our excellent list of recommended summer releases, and jotted down a few musts (Alan Furst’s latest, "The Spies of Warsaw" gets a boffo review from Jonathan Shapiro in The Times).
But if you’re like me, there are other fine books already on bookstore shelves that I haven’t yet gotten around to yet, novels like the acclaimed "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing: 400 pp., $24.99) and "The Plague of Doves" by Louise Erdrich, who, reviewer Brigitte Frase wrote, composes "symphonies filled with a complex wisdom about the strands of darkness and light that make up a human life."
And with the Rockefeller clan recently demanding management changes at Exxon Mobil, I’m intrigued by a March release on the investigative journalist who forced change on the oil giant's predecessor, Standard Oil, "Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller" by Steve Weinberg (W.W. Norton: 256 pp., $25.95).
What’s in your book bag?
Kristina Lindgren
Whilst traveling back from BEA last week I read 2 Georgette Heyer novels, Venetia and These Old Shades. Huge characters who want things!
Yes, also reading modern books: Anne Elizabeth Moore's Unmarketable. And probably something picked up at BEA....
More travel reading: old New Yorkers which can be left behind in a trail when done with.
Posted by: Gavin | June 08, 2008 at 09:11 PM