The Four Seasons Reading Club, our household’s two-person adventure in reading, just finished its fifth year. The club began after I retired from teaching, so the year runs from May to May. In our fifth year we read twenty-one books and a book’s worth of uncollected short stories, and we climbed one mountain, Mount Musil. In non-chronological order:
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, The Professor
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders)
Eva Hoffman, How to Be Bored
Olivia Jaimes, Nancy’s Genius Plan
Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
Guy de Maupassant, Afloat
Duncan Minshull, ed., Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters / Seymour: An Introduction, uncollected stories
Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Stefan Zweig, Journeys
Here are the reports for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
comments: 6
You’ve been retired five years???
Let me check. :)
Yes, five. Thirty years of teaching.
Jane Eyre?
I don't remember---did you quote and comment on that when you were reading it?
I love that book, but I've never read anything else by Charlotte Bronte---would you recommend The Professor?
Not yet, but there was something about the 1943 movie.
I would recommend The Professor. It’s an unusual picture of courtship and marriage with an undeniable and barely coded same-sex element to the story. The Internet Archive has copies.
Thanks, I'll give it a try when libraries open--don't like reading novels online. I've always meant to read more CB.
Frex = Fresca
You can download it and read on a device. They have a beautiful edition from 1900, but it’s missing a page. Other editions too.
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