[Vision2020] Summer Reading

[Melynda Huskey]

Can't forecast the summer (that's a lot of books from now), but on the 
table as I type:

Memoirs of Steven Grellet (because like Keely, I yearn to shine at 
cocktail parties, and nothing says "sophisticate" like anecdotes about 
Quaker ministry in the U.S. anti-slavery movement of the 1840s).

*Autobiography of an Economic Hit Man,* which I'm getting to a couple 
years after everybody else in the world, but which confirms my gloomiest 
ideas about the destiny of the American Empire.

A book of nineteenth-century sock patterns--socks are great summer 
knitting, because they're small and portable.

*Excellent Women,* by Barbara Pym, the 20th-century answer to Jane Austen.

*The Elements of Typographic Style," the definitive work on book design 
in the history of the universe, and also one of the most informative and 
beautifully-produced books ever.  (Fun fact:  the proper name for the 
symbol # is the octothorp--so called because it represents eight fields, 
thorp being a Middle English word for "field."  It was first used in 
maps to designate a village--seven plots of land around a common.)

But I'm hoping to borrow Dan's Bigfoot memoir as soon as he's done with it.

Melynda Huskey