Darlings, My Summer Reading Season Has Officially Begun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              It traditionally spans the period from Memorial Day to Labor Day.  Most people then turn to the lighter fare, but I choose to turn to the heavier stuff, to make sure I get it in, during the year.

                               This year, because I had some things I had to get out of the way first, I have begun my Summer Reading Season with a fourth reading of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."  This is planned to be followed by Rebecca Mead's "My Life With 'Middlemarch'," which came out last year, and, wanting to read it, I figured I would reread Eliot before tackling Mead.

                                  Now, after that, I am scheduled to tackle something even more momentous than "Middlemarch--"  Leo Tolstoy's Russian epic, "War And Peace."  I have one of the more updated translations waiting for me, and this will be my third reading thereof.

                                    Aside from that--I have only some considerations--some of which I may or may not get to.  And many, because of the type of reader that I am, are rereads.

                                      Dickens--Either "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations," or "Bleak House".

                                      "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott.

                                      "The Alienist," by Caleb Carr--Not heavy duty like some of these others, but Serial Killer Fun!!!!!!!!!!  Probably one of the best serial killer novels ever, and I am sure some would say THE best!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      "Gone With The Wind," by Margaret Mitchell--It is the 75th Anniversary of the movie, and after that disgusting comment in "Vanity Fair," claiming it has been reduced to a "piece of routine schmaltz, read only by teenage girls, if anyone!"  Nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         The Mayfair Trilogy, by Anne Rice--consisting of the masterpiece, "The Witching Hour," and  its lesser, but necessary sequels, "Lasher" and "Taltos."

                                           Like I said, I don't know how far I will get.  Right now, I am on page 27 of "Middlemarch" (the Modern Library Classics Edition, best to own!!!!!!!!) and I will inform you of how I fared, and what I enjoyed, when the season ends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                              Bur, right now, it is just Heaven, with Dorothea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!