Summer reading list

What are you hoping to
read this summer? We posed this question to the Century staff, a group of people with diverse tastes
and interests. Along with commenting on our choices, feel free to post your own
in the comments. --Ed.

The term "summer reading"
conjures up leisurely days immersed in fiction. I have a few items in that
pile. My church's book group will discuss Middlemarch in September, so I'm planning
to reread that long novel by George Eliot--"one of the few British novels
written for grownups," said Virginia Woolf. I remember the character of
Dorothea Brooke, with her painfully misguided idealism, and Eliot's devastating
portrait of the pedant she marries--but that's about all.