“The Reading List” is an uncensored blog memoir about an English professor going AWOL on the profession she thought she would love, while her corporate high-flyer father takes up reading for the first time.

With each new book she discusses with her father – introducing him to diverse literary masters from Joyce to Hemingway to Faulkner to Atwood – Leslie opens up a whole new dimension to their relationship and gains insight into family secrets that hold the key to who she is.

Note: The Reading List: Ruminations of a Recovering Academic contains pervasive harsh language.