January 27, 2004
So Many Books, So Little Time
Mom sent me Sara Nelson's So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading, which I finished this morning. I thought it was a lot of fun. Its really more than the books she read, but how they found her and what they meant to her.
Here's a list of some of the ones from the book that I think I'll add to my to-do pile:
Personal History by Katherine Graham
How Boys See Girls by David Gilmour
The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd
Heartburn by Nora Ephron (an old favorite to reread)
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (though I HATED Ethan Frome in high school)
Floater by Calvin Trillin (I loved Tepper isn't Going Out)
And Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Which Carrie has offered to lend me next time I visit her)
and I want that: How we all Became Shoppers by Thomas Hine