After beginning to read fiction again (there was a long hiatus), I’m overwhelmed by the possibilities. First, Wendy Lesser in Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books gave me a homework assignment that will last a lifetime. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not complaining! Hers is a marvelous and eye-opening introduction to what are for me new vistas of literature. Nick Hornby’s Ten Years in the Tub is a compilation of columns from The Believer magazine; each column notes Books Bought and Books Read, and puts this reader more at ease about my literary shortcomings in part due to Hornby’s own self-deprecating style, along with the fact that the Books Bought list is generally quite a bit longer than Books Read.