I'm currently reading "The Secret Garden"; somehow missed it until now!

I also just downloaded "Cleopatra" (Stacy Schiff)and "To the End of the Land" (David Grossman)for reading next. I was watching "Need to Know" on PBS over the weekend and the authors of both these books were on; they both sounded like books I would want to read.

Also, Robert Alter was on the program; have you heard about him? He is writing new translations of the Bible (only Old Testament, I think). I downloaded a sample of The Wisdom Books to see what all the fuss is about. It seems there are a lot of people who think what he is doing is blasphemous (to put it mildly!) and I don't understand that. He is a renowned scholar who is translating from the original Hebrew. I love reading in the original King James version - makes it more like literature - and I want to see what he makes of it.