With summer reading lists about and everyone–I mean, everyone–talking about vampire romances, tell us what you’re reading or planning to read this summer. I’ve got No Man’s Land coming up, which should be colorful non-fiction. I haven’t finished Code of the Woosters, because I’ve been wasting my time reading blogs. Or something.
What are you reading?
I am currently reading Heiko Oberman’s Luther: Man Between God and the Devil. I would also like to finally finish Crime and Punishment which I have been reading off and on for a year.
The Iliad. I want to write about Samson, and the Danites seem to have learned a lot from their Philistine neighbors. Philistine literature did not survive, but we know the stories their Greek cousins told each other.
I’m currently reading Dune. I saw Erling’s World in a used bookstore, but was put off by the scantily-clad woman (goddess?) on the cover. Lars, what’s up with the cover art?
The scantily-clad girl (she’s a teenager IIRC) is a character who would have dressed as scantily as she could get away with. I think cover art is the decision of the publisher’s marketing department, rather than the author. In this case you really missed out by judging a book by its cover.
The cover was the publisher’s decision, and I had no input whatever on that one. The elf woman portrayed was somewhat more modestly dressed in the text, but does not remain modestly dressed permanently. (Gotta be honest.) It’s a horror scene, not an erotic one, though.
Later on, Jim Baen said he thought he’d committed “bookicide” with that cover. But I don’t think he had the dress code in mind.
Come now, that book was a cess pool of iniquity. That’s why there was a practically naked woman on the cover. I was so shocked that book I had to read it twice. Ha!
Ok, I am lying here. I’m sorry, but I hope it’s funny.
Erling’s Word is one part of The Year of the Warrior. Did Baen think he had corrected his mistake with the YotW cover? That one was definitely more dramatic.
I’m reading Anne Bronte’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”.
I LOVE it.
By far, the best Bronte book I’ve read.
Phil: Yes, Jim was trying to re-boot the series. And we all know how that turned out.
I started Winston Churchill’s six volume memoirs of WWII last August. I’m now about a hundred pages into volume 6. When I’m done with that I may have to go back and finish reading some of the appendices. Otherwise, it may be time to re-read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the umpteenth time. Or, if I don’t need the light-hearted distraction, I also have August 1914 by Alexander Solzenhitzen and Brother’s Karamozov by Dostoyevski sitting unfinished on my nightstand.
I may be coming in a little too late to the conversation, but I’m about halfway through A Severe Mercy by Vanauken, and it’s really fantastically good. I also hope to read Shane this month, the movie of which I think has been mentioned here before.
Oh, “A Severe Mercy”. LOVE that book.