I've just gone
through a spate of book ordering and buying and my TBR pile has all of a sudden
grown astronomically. I thought I'd share some of the books I'm looking forward
to reading this winter.

I'm also looking forward to reading two Geoff Dyer books, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, and But Beautiful, A Book About Jazz. The Yoga book is a travel story, sort of. Dyer travels from place to place, (probably not doing yoga) and muses on journeys both exterior and interior. Since the Lieberman Smiths actually have some big travel plans coming up (2019!), I'm going to read this not with jealousy, but with my own future wanderings in mind.

When I'm on vacation, I like rummaging through second-hand bookstores for classics I've never read. I was in Toronto over the holidays and I picked up a copy of John Updike's Rabbit, Run. I can just hear the
chorus of "What, you've-never-read-any-Updike? No, I've also never read
any Bellow either, and I haven't delved
into Russian lit the way I should, but Updike I shall read soon.
Just when my list was looking like it had more male authors on it than female, Marjorie Ingall's Mamaleh Know Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children, came in the mail. I'm not sure I've ever
read a parenting book (perhaps I should?) but Mamaleh looks both entertaining as
well as instructive. Kudos to whoever designed the beautiful cover. (Jealous!)
If Ingall's books is half as cheeky and interesting as her articles for Tablet,
and her blog Sorry Watch, I'm sure I'll love it.
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