THINK OF ENGLAND
by Alice Elliott Dark
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 068486522X
271 pages
Dark's amazing short story "In the Gloaming" was included in the collection of best short stories of the century, and I have just packed her first novel into my travel bag. I'm going to Belgium tomorrow and I like having a good book to keep me company at the airport.
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
by Mark Twain
Viking Press
ISBN: 0140390839
219 pages
I'm in a mother-daughter book club with my twelve-year-old and this is our summer pick. I love Twain --- his novels and also his bons mots such as "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
by Ray Bradbury
Bantam
ISBN: 055327449X
186 pages
My fourteen-year-old and I are also in a book club, and I'm eager to read this classic because I rarely read science fiction and because I've loved his story "The Veldt" ever since I was a kid and a librarian read it aloud to my class at school.
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
by Ernest Hemingway
Touchstone
ISBN: 0684801450
I need to bone up on bullfighting because my character is going to a bullfight in the novel I'm now writing, WITH LOVE FROM SPAIN, MELANIE MARTIN. OLÉ.
FOR TEENS ONLY
by Carol Weston
HarperTrophy
ISBN: 006000214X
224 pages
Any honest author will tell you that before you submit your own book for publication, you have to read it not once, not twice, but a zillion times. FOR TEENS ONLY (HarperCollins) is coming out in November and I can assure you that this is the book I will be reading and rereading, pencil in hand, on the week of July 8th.
