Tell us what you think, offer suggestions. In keeping with the pretence of having a few traditions around here, today we're going to launch our 1999 version of the Summer Book List. This is the program when we ask you and a few guests to give us a list of good reading. We put no circumscriptions on that list, although if Carlos Castenda shows up too often today, I am told the microphone may melt. It can range from Brigette Jones to Beatrice, Shakespeare to Twiston Davies - the latter, most recently, the editor of a delightful sample of letters from the Daily Telegraph.
Edification is merely a rationalization.
It's enough that you like the book, want to excite others to the reading of it, and are willing to give a reasonably terse account of why it has affected you. We're open - the fence is down. Let us, both, compile a summer book list.