Why I've Been Reading

a break from our regularly scheduled programming

I read a lot of novels growing up. There was a big bookshelf in one room of the house where my parents kept the books they had finished reading, and I remember sitting on the floor staring at the spines, and working my way through them. They were heavy on Robertson Davies and Evelyn Waugh, so I read all of those, plus some Murdochs, Bellows, Doctorows, …