i'm reading two books right now, les miserables by victor hugo and the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde. i wanted to read more classics before moving to london, and i think i definitely picked two winners.
next, i'm going to read stieg larsson's the girl who played with fire. i read the first of the series, the girl with the dragon tattoo, and i really enjoyed it.
i'm also going to re-read the art of the commonplace, which is a collection of essays by wendell berry. i had to read this freshman year in an honors seminar, and i thought it was just okay, but i read a few essays from it again last year, and i realized just how powerful berry's writing is. anyone who claims to be interested in environmental protection, policy or economics needs to read this book.
i've ordered one of my textbooks for next year, environmental economics by charles kolstad, so i'll probably thumb through it before i move in september.
i'm going to round out the summer by reading twelfth night, by william shakespeare.
and finally, stealing a page from emilie's book (punny), i'm going to read some william faulkner. i saw his novel mosquitoes yesterday in square books, so i think i'm going off the beaten path and read it in august before conference/vacation in shanghai.
well, i think that's all i'm going to have time for. i bought ulysses a few years ago, but it's a daunting book, so i've been pushing it off. maybe i'll pack it next year, and one weekend in dublin, i'll be inspired to read it.
