Tuesday
Morning Read Forecast

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The next round of Morning Reads will begin on Monday, 18 August 2008.  

Here’s the line-up of books. Indispensably at the core are Don Quixote and Moby-Dick. It may take a while to figure out how much to plow through ever morning, but I’ll always read at least a few pages. If I’m slightly pressed, I may read no more than a bit of AN Wilson’s After the Victorians (a collection of shortish pieces) and a few of Noël Coward’s Letters.

Chesterfield and Rochefoucauld are garnish, for truly energetic mornings.

2 Responses to “Tuesday
Morning Read Forecast”

  1. Nom de Plume says:

    I heard a great expression on NPR this morning about those pieces in the first half of the symphony program just after one sits down and before Mahler’s 10th or Beethoven’s 3rd in the second half: “spinach music” — music your mother makes you listen to before the audio dessert. So, what do you get to read in the afternoon? (hardy har har har!!!) (

  2. M.W. Nolden says:

    Are you familiar with the famous Rockwell Kent edition of Moby-Dick? (I suspect you have as there is still a facsimile edition available.) Really great. Apparently that edition was responsible for a revival of Melville in the 1920s