Goodreads asked Ed Protzel:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Ed Protzel Sorry about the delay; I've been traveling. I'm beginning research on the third novel of the DarkHorse trilogy, Something in Madness, so, unfortunately, a lot of my reading time is absorbed with histories of the post Civil War reconstruction in Mississippi. I've got a stack of them. For fun, my reading's eclectic, whatever comes to hand. I've just finished Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich, a terrific writer. This is a superior look at the 16th century. Not A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, but what history is? Fiction-wise, I'm also getting to Dostoevsky's The Idiot, which I never read, and is going to take a bit of time. I might suggest Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Humberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Very good in different way. Have you found anything really good, fiction or history? Ed

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