Summertime and the reading is easy — and plentiful

[Dave Monroe]

Summertime and the reading is easy — and plentiful
By Colette Bancroft, Times Book Editor
In Print: Sunday, June 14, 2009


For some people, summer vacation is the one time of year they can
settle into a good book. For others, it's the time to really indulge a
year-round habit. Wherever you fit on the summer book spectrum, here's
a beach tote full of suggestions.

[...]

Thomas Pynchon has a shock in store for his fans: Inherent Vice
(Penguin, Aug. 4) is not only a genre novel — Pynchon's no doubt
mind-bending take on the Southern California noir detective novel —
but weighs in at less than 400 pages.

[...]

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