Updated May 15, 2025

I admit that for the last ten years painting has taken hours off my reading hours, but I still consider myself an avid reader with a twist that is a love for re reading some of my youth favorite classics and not-so-classics like Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago, Camus’ l’étranger, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Dostoivesky’s Brothers Karamazov, Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbevilles, and of course my French lit goodies by Stendhal, Zola, etc.

I also love the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Neruda, Frost, Cavafy, and Aragon, among many.

Some of the new and more recent ones include page turners that make for great modern literature and that I have shared with many friends avid of a great book:

Betty by Tiffany Mcdaniel
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza
Giocanda by Nikos Kokantzis

Every year I read the one novel by Amelie Nothomb and most are just great stuff, and I admit a great fondness for any book by Nina Berberova, Christian Bobin, Laure Adler, Delphine de Vigan, Alice Zeniter and Muriel Barbery.