[Vision2020] Summer Reading

[Carl Westberg]

Although it came out 10 years ago, perhaps I'll attempt, for approximately 
the 11th time, to actually finish "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace.  
Has anyone here actually made it through the 1100 pages or so of that novel? 
  I think it's currently propping up a corner of my broken table.  Carl 
Westberg Jr.


>From: Melynda Huskey <melynda at moscow.com>
>To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Summer Reading Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:50:27 
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>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
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