On the nightstand

Books. On the nightstand. Under the pillow. In the knapsack or, more recently, the messenger bag. And so on. This is the thirty-second "On the nightstand" entry.

Snow (Orhan Pamuk)

Ovid: Metamorphoses (translated by Charles Martin)

Literature Unbound: A Guide for the Common Reader (Sam Tanenhaus)

Small Island (Andrea Levy)

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (Charles J. Shields)

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast (Bill Richards)

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris)

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Anne Fadiman)

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths (Mary Lefkowitz)

Remember:

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

~ Francis Bacon

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