Re: What's everybody reading?

["Ana Maria Correa" <shoredancer at hotmail_com>]

Just finished Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous by Don Foster last 
night.  Fascinating stuff.  He's the English prof who analyses literary text 
for attributional purposes and identified a lost elegy of Shakespeare's, Joe 
Klein as the author of Primary Colors, and played a key role in the 
Unabomber case.

My favorite section though, was his investigation of the theory that Thomas 
Pynchon wrote under the name of a Fort Bragg bag lady in Northern California 
in the '80s (while writing Vineland).  Much fun.  (Truth is truly stranger 
than fiction...)

I'm also reading:
Nick Hornby's Songbook
Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity
Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night a Traveler

Another vote for Harry!  Loved it (of course).  I even picked up Quidditch 
Through the Ages (by Kennilworthy Whisp) and Fantastic Beasts and Where to 
Find Them (by Newt Scamander).  The latter belongs to Harry, and Ron and 
Hermione scribbled a little argument on the title page... ;)

For light stuff, I recommend Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair and Lost in a 
Good Book.  He's hysterical.  Take a peek: http://www.jasperfforde.com/

Ever,
Ana Maria

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