A Seriously Summer Reading List

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
June 11, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/303/a-seriously-summer-reading-list

Excerpt:

The days whizz by as one grows older. Once, or so it now seems, each season took its own sweet time but summer in particular really came to stay. There was always time to dream and swim and laze about, and lots of time left over for both light and heavy reading.

But today I am at war, both with the passage of time and with the inevitable crumbling of my own infra-structure–and, of course, with Islamist terrorists who mean to bomb us back into the 7th century.

Some might argue that for such reasons, we should “gather ye rosebuds while ye may,” for this might be the last summer as the West has known summer to be, filled with (somewhat) carefree travel. Others would say that the war has long been upon us and that we must boycott or ration our use of oil, give up our SUVs, carpool, switch to hybrids and electric cars–and do so instantly, not gradually.

Here’s some of what I will be reading and perhaps writing about this summer. Please send me your own favorite choices.

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