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I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.
On Summer Reading
by damongarr on June 15, 2007
“I’m sorry, sir, but Dostoyevsky is not considered summer reading. I’ll have to ask you to come with me.”
While everyone is out there pushing summer reading lists that are full of fluff, easy reads, I wonder why we don’t use these free summer days to read harder books. The rest of the year is full of other obligations, impending holidays, taxes due, and the like, so why not settle into the book you’ve put off? Say… Ulysses?
It seems to me it’s a good time to sit out on the porch until the sun goes down while reading something a little challenging. So, tell me, who’s up the challenge? What are you going to read?
Some suggestions:
The Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Middlemarch
A Tale of Two Cities
Anna Karenina
Underworld
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Remembrance of Things Past
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I plan on finally reading Finnegans Wake this Summer. So you aren’t alone in your idea that Summer should be the time to read up on the classics that no one seems to have time for (although, I do attend more BBQs during this season).
– Adam S. (06/16 at 16-Jun 23:31 -05:00)