Lucky?

images August: Still hiding out in my old-man rooms waving to the grandkids when they’re cavorting in the backyard and having my lonely plates of dinner delivered at arms length with the three day old but adequately fumigated mail.

I’m reading a lot but I’m also gorging on cable television series. Currently finishing five years of The Wire which my daughter considered as hard evidence that I was hopelessly behind the times. I didn’t tell her I just watched Mr. Lucky (oh, that Andamo).

Yesterday I made a list of American literature I still need to address. I had already acknowledged a great deal of James (still not a favorite) and now have added such as James Fenimore Cooper, Upton Sinclair, Mark Twain, Hamlin Garland, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and William Dean Howells. I might even read Wolfe’s follow-up novels to Look Homeward Angel. Note that in most instances I have already read (or been forced to read at school) many of the major titles by these authors but even a quick glance at their bibliographies reveals that I have a long way to go.

This month I have scheduled just four classic novels: The Pathfinder, Louise de la Vallière, Elmer Gantry, and The Ordeal of Richard Feveral. The mix looks good. Perhaps a few titles pique your interest?