Every season opens up with a new and refreshing urge to read. The spring brings this along with the warmer temperatures. The sun is shining, the days are lengthening and the library and bookstores beckon to me afresh.
I am already prepared for all my Austen reading (which I have fallen shamelessly behind on). I am just finishing up Emma and will start on Mansfield Park shortly. But woman cannot subsist on Austen alone. Oh no. There must be a well balanced diet of literature. I just got Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood from the library (that covers Science Fiction) and I just requested a copy of The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections (which covers "Self Help") and I bought Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (covers both food and memoir categories) and I am now realizing that all my picks are by female authors. I guess that means that I need to read more male authored books this fall along with my plan of delving back into Shakespeare if I am truly going for balanced. Oh and maybe I need more foreign literature in the mix, too?
Life is too short and there are too many books to read...
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