Well, this is a silly question because one hopes she’d have read too many books to count already. So I’ll just say the gloss achieved by reading and paying attention to the great Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon would point her in the direction of what Western civilization’s greatest thinkers and writers were all about. Bloom dissects the major literary works of post-Roman and Biblical times. And if one doesn’t know what to take from that, then one isn’t concerned with being a fully realized, thinking soul. At the very least, The Western Canon shows us what we don’t know and need to know and haven’t really read.

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