Tune in next week!

Current book: The Bostonians
Pages read: None

Here begins an official hiatus through next Tuesday. It's time for your faithful literary correspondent to take a vacation, and frankly, she can't be bothered with Henry James when she is on holiday. Reading 19th-century literature just doesn't fit under the heading of recreation, friends.

But fear not, for said correspondent will return on Wednesday the 29th to regale you with sarcastic commentary and an overabundance of parentheses. This is your literary blogger, signing off.