KindleTinder: Reading Recommendations From The Pros

The National Book Critics Circle (they’re too toney for an “Association” and too hip for a “Guild”) has issued its recommendations.  

I confess that with one thing and another I’ve rather fallen behind in my reading.

We’re off this morning to bury my mother’s ashes next to my grandfather and grandmother, so I’ve re-stocked my Kindle with some of the critics’ recommendations. 

(I’d ask, “What is it with poets not embracing the Kindle?  They need all the help they can get with sales,” but you can’t really write good poetry without being a little highly strung, I guess unless you’re Wallace Stevens.  The thought of words not existing on the stable, flimy permafrost of paper makes poets crazy.)

First up: The Marriage Plot.  I frankly can’t take another novel set in New York City: I was ruined for that by Winter’s Tale.