Forgot to mention that my next book is going to be House of Wits, An Intimate Portrait of the James Family by Paul Fisher, my cousin. He is an English professor who has been studying the James's forever. It got a starred Kirkus review that called it "A stunning multigenerational portrait of one of the most complex families in American intellectual history...A golden bowl, brimming full." Charles McGrath of The New York Times said, "A sweeping biography...Fisher gives fair and sympathetic time to everyone, and provides a lively and detailed social history of the period." Yes, I'm bragging on my cousin.
My cousin is a talented author and a true scholar, so I am looking forward to it. He also moved in to live with my family when he was about 14 or 15 years old after both of his parents passed away and my parents were legal guardians, so he lived in my house with me for a number of years and we actually shared a bedroom, because the house wasn't big enough for everybody to have his/her own bedroom after my cousins all arrived.
Anyway, I started it already and although I have never read anything by anybody in the James family, the book seems interesting from a historical perspective alone.
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust