Since Mrs. T and I will be spending the next two months in Florida, we took the precaution of shipping some of our stuff ahead of us. I sent a box containing books and DVDs. These are the books I plan to read on the beach and elsewhere. Some are new to me, some not:
• Jens Malte Fischer, Gustav Mahler
• L.P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda
• Philip Glass, Words Without Music (which I read yesterday)
• Hugh MacLennan, The Watch that Ends the Night (which I thought might go well with Beware of Pity)
• John P. Marquand, North of Grand Central
• V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
• Honor Tracy, The Straight and Narrow Path
• Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux
• Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour
• Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence
• Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity (which I read on the train) and The World of Yesterday
Make of that list what you will!