In a couple of months I will be starting to read for my master's degree. (Even at 58 years old, why not? It's a free perq offered by the college that employs me.) Being a small Liberal Arts school whose curriculum is based upon the Great Works of Western Civilization -sort of a traditional Oxford/Cambridge approach- it's no surprise that I'll be reading the likes of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Joyce, Ptolemy, Homer, Thucydides, Nietzche, etc., to name but a few. It shall be a grueling but enlightening experience, leaving little time for pleasure reading. (Unless of course I take a day off if/when JLB comes out with a new one! A new one by LeCarre will prompt the same behavior.) Wish me luck, for some (nay, a lot) of this reading is difficult at best.
