WHAT I'M READING

 

I'm about the head down to Cape Cod this weekend for a library conference there the start of the week. So I'm looking to take down some reading for myself for during the downtime. Rudy's Red Wagon is a counter-cultural rhetoric that we had in our basement (for some reason?) when I was growing up. 

So I'm planning on re-reading it while there. I happen to have a M.A. in rhetorical theory, so this just happens to count as fun for me. (I seem to recall a section on the rhetoric of used car salesmen, that indirectly references Kenneth Burke's concept of identification as a rhetorical appeal.) Should be fun.

Grade: Rather quirky book that I really liked a lot growing up. Give it a B+.

Still working my way through L'incroyable histoire de la litterature français. I've now reached the 18th century and have just finished reading about Voltaire and am just starting out on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Finding it a very useful book. Just purchased it for my Kindle.

Have put off Amélie Nothomb's Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam for now. Not a bad book, but it's development is a little slower, and I don't have the attention span to it right now. Will return to it later when I have less going on, less on my mind.