Beauty in the mundane

My apologies for being a self-respecting flake when it came to Auster. I pledge to pick it up this time around. If I may, I'd like to weigh in on the next book pick. I don't mean to make the obvious suggestion, but I'm going to throw Updike into the ring. I've always meant to read his famous tetralogy, the "Rabbit" series, and it seems rather appropriate now with his recent death. You can read the Times' love letter to the guy here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28appr.html

He wrote, "My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me, to give the mundane its beautiful due."

I'm always intrigued when writers can bring enlightenment to the ordinary. Would anybody be interested in reading the first book in the series, "Rabbit, Run"?

(How funny: I just noticed that Corey suggested reading this on one of the first TSRM blog entries. Full circle, I like it.)