Summer Reading

[gillespiep@vms.csd.mu.edu]

I really loved Jane Hamilton's two novels, _The Book of Ruth_ and _A Map 
of the World_.  Don't read these books if you 're sad or depressed, but 
read them for Hamilton's beautiful style, her compelling 
characterizations, and her edge-of-your-seat plots.  These are wonderful 
books, but definitely not escapist fiction.  

Thanks to the person on this list who recommended _Snow Falling on 
Cedars_ last year.  If you haven't read it yet, do.  

I'm about half finished with Lawrence Levine's _The Opening of the
American Mind_, a book that looks carefully at the history of higher
education and defends, very well, our movement towards multiculturalism in
our curriculum. 

Paula Gillespie