hi relayer! i could never pass up a reading or books
thread.
for work (i'm a graduate student) i'm reading lots and
lots of shakespeare and writers ON shakespeare. that
part's wonderful. but i also am reading lots of boring
and silly critical theorists on arcane quibbling matters,
and that's a drag.
for "fun" -- although i hardly separate these out any
more, i'm in the middle of richard ford's sprawling
novel, "independence day" which i LIKE, but wish wasn't
quite so sprawling.
i also just read (at my brother's behest -- it's his
favorite book, bar none), a sci-fi novel by orson
scott card called "ender's game" (poorly written but
with a cracking good war-games story and maybe one of
the best trick endings i've ever read.)
and as always i'm reading short stories by the
bushel -- ann beatties' newest in the new yorker,
elizabeth tippens in harper's, and a wonderful gritty
funny one by the great chris offutt in a literary
journal called "fence."
i could go on for hours...but won't!
--emily
