Reading Rainbow

A note on reading: many of you grads might find (like I did when I did no work during my time abroad in London) that your mind is in withdrawal of a sort. You may have hated that orgo book, that history coursepack, or that econ homework, but you did it and now your brain is used to that level of intellectual stimulation. Anyway, all I'm really saying is I have LOTS of reading suggestions if anyone wants them. Right now I'm reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (he wrote Virgin Suicides too) and it's an awesome book if you like big epics and clean writing.
Also, I would like to reiterate the fact that Oprah did not invent the concept of a good book and putting Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude on her book club list is like putting Tiger Woods at the top of a good golfers list. Solitude was written in the late 1960s and Marquez won a Nobel Prize for Literature in the early 1980s, so lots of other people had figured out the book was good before Oprah. My only caution is that you probably have to commit to reading it in chunks of more than 20 pages because the paragraphs sometimes go on for pages and it's hard to start and stop. I have tons more recommendations (just ask my friend Abby, to whom I gave a summer reading list). So that should help you and the brain out a little...