Moving, books

Vermont showed us a delightful face for the first week of our arrival, treating us to warm breezy days with clear skies, cool but not cold nights, and plenty of sunlight on beaches and the lake.  We had friends in from out of town, relatives who helped us move, and got to eat tasty food.  September is a season of markets, fairs, and street festivals as best as I can tell, and our favorite musician of all time (Richard Thompson) will be playing Burlington in just three weeks or so.

Books-wise, I'm still in a phase of re-reading comforting and /or familiar things or types-of-things.  I brought home the first volume of Roger Zelazny's collected short stories (yay!), tore through a re-read of some more Georgette Heyer (A Lady of Quality, I think).

Then I surprised myself a bit and picked up a book by Muriel Spark.  It had no book jacket and sat flat and black on the "staff recommends" table.  The title was "Loitering with Intent" which was too good a title to pass by.  So far I love it.  It reminded me that I do read literary fiction. (I'm always announcing, in just the pompous tone used by readers of literary fiction reviewed in the New Yorker, that I "only read genre", but it isn't actually true.)

So I thought about it and here are some literary fiction authors I've read and valued, since I'm always claiming to read only f/sf, horror, mystery, romance, etc.
( list of literary authors/works I liked )