I’ve gone over books purchased during the summer, shelved those that will have to wait, added a few older titles, and put together my Fall reading shelf. I’d like to add a couple of books on history--any suggestions would be appreciated.

From the buzz, I think I’ll have to add Dennis Johnson’s latest to the list. Even Kakutani gives it a glowing (for Kakutani) review.

As posted on my blog:

Jean Seznec: The Survival of the Pagan Gods (cont. from Summer 2007)
Slovoj Zizek: Interrogating the Real
John Steinbeck: East of Eden
Henry James: The Europeans
Peter Handke: Repetition
Richard Powers: The Echo Maker—on this one, I promise a review!
--Verbivore has a piece on this book on Incurable Logophilia… followed by some interesting Comments.

Peter Handke: On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
Witold Gombrowicz: Pornografia
Elizabeth Wright and Edmond Wright, eds: The Zizek Reader
Sherman Alexie: Flight
Hermann Broch: The Sleepwalkers
Roberto Bolano: Last Evenings on Earth
Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli
Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil --put off from summer till I can read Virgils five elegies on Fate in translation… my son prompting me to learn Latin, but I only have so many years left…

Carolyn Glenn Brewer: Caught in the Path: because it’s an account of a category 5 tornado that tore through the Ruskin Heights development neighborhood of Kansas City, Mo. where I lived, May 20, 1957, and was the occasion of my first published writing: a Sunday feature in the Chicago Daily News, and a Scott-Foresman workbook piece, for which I was paid ten bucks....age, not quite 16.