“And perhaps half the number of diet/self-help/well-being books would be quite sufficient,” says the classicist Mary Beard, whose latest book is “Twelve Caesars.”
What books are on your night stand?
Currently I am reading Elif Shafak’s “The Island of Missing Trees,” about love across the divides of civil war in Cyprus, and about a fig tree. It’s wonderful. I never imagined enjoying a book in which one of the main characters is a tree, but it has worked for me. I also have one book there that is (sort of) for work: “The Puffin Book of School Stories” (I’m doing a feature soon on stories about schools, and this seemed a good way to start). And I just finished re-enjoying Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun.”
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