What is next on your nightstand to read? 'The Road' Cormac McCarthy Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart China Mieville's Iron Council 'Annie, Between the States' (even though I have about 10 books ready to read!) A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch Bingo ­ Rita Mae Brown Angel of Repose ­ Wallace Stegner Second Glance­­­Jodi Picoult Buddah­­­Karen Armstrong The Good Husband of Zebra Drive­­­Alexander McCall Smith The New Yorker Doug Crandell’s The All American Industrial Motel Wisdom of the Mythtellers by Sean Kane Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Writers Ask, New Yorker 'Don Quixote' by Cervantes Your 10 to 14 Year Old by Ames, Collected Stories of William Trevor Tim Dorsey, 'The Stingray Shuffle.' The Gospel According to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee Follies by Ann Beattie Glimmer Train #61 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx The Chalon Heads by Barry Maitland Cathedral by Raymond Carver ...AND LADIES OF THE CLUB­Helen Santmayer then Nicholas Sparks­DEAR JOHN then THE MATTLOCK PAPERS­Robert Ludlum then...a whole book case full just waiting. I tend to buy ahead­so to speak. A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown An American Family by Harry Crews Exploring Consciousness by Rita Carter Patchett, Bel Canto Sailing magazines The Devil in the White City A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler The Tie That Binds & Where You Once Belonged both by Kent Haruf Given Ground by Ann Pancake Not: A Trio by David Huddle A pile of travel books about Spain (going there next month) As I Lay Dying Bill Barich, Laughing in the Hills Elizabeth Bowen, Death of the Heart Empire of the Sun, by JG Ballard. New Scientist magazine Amy Tan 'Saving Fish From Drowning' Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman Lewis Black's 'Nothing's Sacred' I just started Chuck Palahniuk's latest, Rant. Also toward the top of my to be read stack: Lee Child, Anita Shreve, and James Sallis. Caren Cote, Portland, OR 'Cranberry Smoke' by Michael Hood. Tom Sheehan Saugus, MA 01906 Montaigne's Essays the Bible Me Talk Pretty One Day Stop Walking On Eggshells (Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder) Emotional Vampires Personal Finance For Dummies Prescription for Nutritional Healing 'Manhattan Transfer' by John Dos Passos Teresa Tumminello Brader New Orleans Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex Re­reading Kurt Vonnegut London Review of Books A Hazard of New Fortunes, Wm Dean Howells Tom Bissel, 'The Father of All Things' Daniel Mason, 'The Piano Tuner' Paula by Isabel Allende A Public Space, Frederick Exley­ A Fan's Notes, Glimmer Train 1 South by Ernest Shackleton The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury; the new issue of McSweeney's; The Interloper by Antoine Wilson. Infidel The All Music Guide to Rock & Roll Music. A monstrosity of a reference book. George B. Miller, Jr. Newington, CT Tennent's At The Center of the Storm The Magic Ring by Baron de la Motte Fouque A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine ­ current ­ don't like it as much as I was told I would; next, Allawi's book about Iraq If It Bleeds by Bonnie Hearn Hill Artemis Fowl #2 ­ the Arctic Incident The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway Winter Solstice, by R. Pilcher philip larkin's novel 'jill' and 'bandit letters,' poems by sarah messer. Michelle Morgan [email protected] Auburn, Maine Joseph Campbell's _Primitive Mythology_ Their Dogs Came with Them by Helena Maria Viramontes (just read about her work in Poets & Writers, May/June 2007) The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton. Paula Fox’s The Coldest Winter and Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America 'Three to Get Ready' Janet Evanovich 'Carrie' Stephen King Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King and The Jessica Lynch Story by Rick Braggs, The Sun Magazine Solo Faces ­ James Salter Walking the Dead Diamond River ­ Edward Hoagland A Bit On the Side ­ William Trevor Short Stories of John Cheever This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Patricia Henley’s Hummingbird House Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin Thought and Language LevVygotsky, Three Novels Samuel Beckett, Orhan Pamuk Istanbul That I Am by Nisargadatta Maharaj, The Indians by Sudhir Kakar, Everyman collection of Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. Sula by Toni Morrison Edward Abbey, 'Desert Solitaire' STILLNESS by Courtney Angela Brkic Room for Doubt by Wendy Lesser and The Tiny One by Eliza Minot The Secret Garden (for some reason I'm re­reading a lot of my childhood favourites) Greek Mythology and Religion The Road by Cormac McCarthy Brick Lane, Monica Ali Savage Beauty, Nancy Mitford View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood All Saints ­ Liam Callanan No Country for an Old Man ­ Cormac McCarthy Lost Horizon ­ James Hilton (again) Zorro ­ Isabel Allende The Blog of War I am halfway through The Final Solution by Michael Chabon; Next on my list is L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy ­Desiree Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovshy Twilight of the Superheroes, Debra Isenberg The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Comes a Horseman by Robert Luparulo Alibi Man by Tami Hoag the inquisitor A novel called 'March' which takes up the father's story from Little Women. The Orientalist Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis, spring issue of Glimmer Train 2 Final Exam by Pauline Chen I need to read Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' again and perhaps take yet another look at 'War and Peace'. With that book I love the way everything unfolds behind the story of Natasha and Pierre. It isn't so very different with Yuri and Lara in 'Doctor Zhivago'. Whatever horrors come to pass in life, the authors seem to have said, are to be set against that which puts everything into perspective, human love. Then there's William Boyd's new novel, 'Restless', Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go', 'First Love and Other Novellas', by Samuel Beckett, and something I know absolutely nothing about, the recommendation of a friend, 'The Courage Consort', by Michel Faber. Patrick Noakes, London, England, [email protected] Middle Age­ Joyce Carol Oates Negotiating with the Dead Margaret Atwood Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund, Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, Kafka's The Castle; and Anthony Rashid's Night Draws Near. The Book of Names by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori The Children of Hurin I buy most of my books at Goodwill and I have a couple of 'new' ones: The Financially Confident Woman, and Ending the Homework Hassle. I buy nonfiction/self­help books with the best intentions, but usually wind up just skimming them. Several literary mags and poetry mags Page Seventeen, Swimming in Silk, Eucalyptus (again), The Nature of Reality The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle by Lois Battle Bouncing Off the Moon by David Gerrold The Roald Dahl Omnibus War and Peace. I joke.... Body Surfing by Anita Shreve and The Silence of the North by Olive Fredrickson Lindsay Davis, 'One Virgin Too Many' Gillian Bradshaw, 'The Bear­Keeper's Daughter' Maria Seoane, 'Argentina' And, as soon as it's out ­ Harry Potter and the Somethings of Doom. (I think. Anyway ­ the last HP). Oswald Chambers: Abandoned To God by David McCasland William T. Vollman’s Europe Central, Memoir of a Bookie’s Son by Sidney Offit Time magazine Next Year in Cuba by Gustavo Perez Firmat Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter, Glimmer Train’s Building Blocks book Reading like a Writer­­Francine Prose Loosing My Espanish by H. G. Carrillo, Writers Ask Issue 35 The Ministry Of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander. Also some book on Verdi I'm reading for research. Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood Catch 22 by Joseph Heller William Gaddis's 'Agape Agape' and Michael Chabon's 'The Final Solution.' (Heard Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' is incredible, so have to get to that sooner rather than later.) The Complete Works of Hans Christian Anderson Glimmer Train #62, Playboy's June issue The Bible The Stranger (Camus) Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) I am between semesters, so will be browsing Amazon or Borders soon. Five books are being read/re­read concurrently, so it's hard to talk about 'next': A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka; A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby; Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night­Time, Mark Haddon; Experience, Martin Amis. Wuthering Heights! (I'm going to visit Haworth presently) Also, The High Desert Review and The Missouri Review Currently, an audiobook of Sherlock Holmes, the short stories read by Ben Kingsley. Everything is Illuminated, and some fantasy novels my brother gave me (can't remember their names right now).

3 The Road, C. McCarthy (underway) Rock Springs, Richard Ford The Underworld, Don DeLillo Anna Karenina, Tolstoy Glass House, Memoir Bible Suttree by Cormac McCarthy The Blind Assassin, Writing Alone and with Others, Drinking A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley The Plague by Albert Camus Dog Years by M Doty and Grace Eventually by A Lamott My name is MJ Werthman White, of Xenia OH, email: [email protected] Skin, by Kellie Wells Writer’s London (because I'm going there in a couple of weeks) Lucky CIA chief George Tenet's book, At the Center of the Storm Anna Karenina Catch­22 bukowski 'Everything is Illuminated' and 'Rant' (new Chuck Palahniuk) 'Pocketful of names' Roy Porter ­ Flesh in the Age of Reason 'The Kite Runner' The Abs Diet, The Secret Coyote Blue Wicked Biography of Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee The Writer (magazine), A View From the Loft (Loft Literary Center publication) and Kaleidoscope (an art related book by the publisher of Art­i­tude Magazine) The Piano Tuner Not sure. I've got a huge stack. The Kite Runner, My Holocaust by Tovah Reich, Michael Chabon's new one, Northanger Abbey. . . . . I am eagerly awaiting the next Glimmer Train, which is on my metaphorical nightstand. Atonement (Ian McEwan) Two books by Milan Kundera Missing Mom (Joyce Carol Oates) The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova) The Sportswriter (Richard Ford) When Nietche Wept (Irvin Yalom) 'Dreams' from Eckankar 'Working' by Studs Terkel A Star Called Henry, by Roddy Doyle The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 'Scandal' by the Japanese writer Endo The Hot Flash Club Son of a Witch A book of Pablo Neruda's poetry in Spanish. Next up is 'This Side of Paradise' by Fitzgerald. Su Casa Magazine Lolita Fiends of the Eastern Front by David Bishop You Are Being Lied To by 'disinformation' The Inventions, Researches & Writings of Nikola Tesla (by Tesla) Ironweed ­ William Kennedy The Diamond Sutra ­ Mu Soeng The Other Side of the Bridge ­ Mary Lawson Angels in America by Tony Kushner. In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass Andrew O'Hagan Little Children, Tom Perrotta Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides The Space Between Us, by Masha Hamilton Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons, Shining Through st augustine’s confessions; the odyssey. 4 Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood The Insanity File: the case of Mary Todd Lincoln Cormac McCarthy ­ either The Road or All the Pretty Horses. I'm halfway through 'Lolita' and I hate to admit it, but it's a chore. 'The Inheritance of Loss' by Kiran Desai is sitting there, but the title is so dreary that it's not very enticing. Winter issue of The Georgia Review Literary journals: Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, The Hudson Review, Sewanee Review, The Oxford American, Missouri Review Novel: The Kite Runner Woman's World by Graham Rawle The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and A Childhood by Harry Crews Firefly Cloak, Sheri Reynolds my journal The Bravest Man, William Tuohy BORDER CROSSING by Pat Barker Moon Palace by Paul Auster Elmore Leonard's Freaky Deaky (1988), part of my commitment to reading Michigan authors. The Inheritance of Loss. I'm out! Lydia Davis ‘Varieties of Disturbance’, Glimmer Train’s Guide to Writing Fiction 'Against the Ropes,' F.X. Toole Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson Anything by Douglas Adams I haven't read Thomas Pynchon's, Gravity's Rainbow (I have a feeling that will be on my nightstand for a while.) Wicked Almost finished with: In The Time Of Peace by Hugh Nissenson Artistic Cats One Great Insight is Worth a Thousand Good Ideas ­ Dusenberry The Brothers Karamazov The Tale of Genji The Sea Came in at Midnight, Steve Erickson Cold Skin, Albert Sanchez Pinol The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia Divided Kingdom, Rupert Thompson Nice Big American Baby, Judy Budnitz The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue Darwin and His Daughter I just finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See last night. I bought my boyfriend George Carlin's new book. It's not what I usually read but I may give it a go. Then We Came to the End (Joshua Ferris) The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco) ... simultaneously, unfortunately. I have so little opportunity to read for fun that at the bookstore my eyes are bigger than my stomach. I have begun, and bookmarked, all three of these books and they are stacked together on my nightstand for future reading. Freakonomics Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour The To Be Told Workbook Dante's Inferno John Grisham The latest by Martha Grimes Women Who Run With the Wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype, Clarissa Pinkoa Estes san mcdonald, [email protected], nashville their eyes were watching god (Zora Neale Hurston) Memoirs of a Geisha Tumble Home­Amy Hempel, Where Love is Found, Freeing Vera­Elissa Raffa, Mother Knows: 24 Tales of

5 Motherhood, Best American Essays 2006 ­ Lauren Slater. Mayflower­­Nathaniel Philbrick, Blood Meridian­­Cormac McCarthy, The Evansville Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Sewanee Review, Dusk­­James Salter Either Elizabeth Gaskell, Lois the Witch, or Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps or Chester Himes, The Quality of Hurt Carol Del Col ­ Philippi, WV ­ [email protected] Water for Elephants What Is the What, by Dave Eggers. Best American Short Stories, 2006 Twin Study, Stacey Richter YellowCake, Ann Cummins Herbert Kohl's On Teaching Robbin's Jitterbug Perfume Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The Cave by Jose Saramago The Sea by John Banville The Wind­Up Bird Chronicle 'How to Read Palms.' ­­Linda Rehkopf Marietta, GA [email protected] 'The Translator' by John Crowley and the short stories of Eudora Welty & 'Grace & Gravity', an anthology of women's short fiction published by Paycock Press. London by Edward Rutherford Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch multitudes! A new cookbook ­ The King Arthur Flour Whole Grains Baking book. The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan Lady from Charnell KL Cook, Missouri Review and Agni (newest edition) History of the Gold Rush Organic Housekeeping, and a million magazines Dr. Marilyn Hope Lake, Hutchinson KS I think that now that I have reminded myself of it, I may reread the anthology FICTIONS by Trimmer and Wade next, or my Alice Munro collected works. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Cymbeline by William Shakespeare 'Mayflower' by Nathaniel Philbrick 'Living to Tell the Tale' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez' 'A Passion for Truth: Abraham Joshua Heschel 'America 1900' by Judy Crichton 'In Black and White' by Wil Haygood Anita Shreve ­­ A WEDDING IN DECEMBER A Man in Full The God of Small Things A collection of W. Somerset Maugham stories Coming into the End Zone by Doris Grumbach, Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter. Good Lord, if the stack fell over in the night, it'd kill me. I keep a good chunk of my collection near the bed... maybe a hundred books looming, waiting. 'Meditations from a Movable Chair' by Andre Dubus. Also, really want to reread 'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane. DIVISADERO, by Michael Ondaatje (not on my nightstand yet, but will be as soon as it is published later this month) The Road, by McCarthy, then Running With Scissors, then a book by Amy Wallen. Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sight­Readings

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