Summer Reads on The Point with Mindy Todd

Great fun this morning with Mindy Todd and Vicky Titcomb on The Point with Mindy Todd, as we discussed great books for summer from novels to food to gardening. Below are the books we mentioned, as well as books mentioned by our listeners. Have you got a favorite summer read? Let us know! You can e-mail info@falmouthpubliclibrary.org and I’ll add your suggestion to our list. Miss the show? You can listen online!

Mindy’s Picks

The Italian Wife by Ann Hood

Woof: a Bowser and Birdie novel by Spencer Quinn

What the Dog Knows: the science and wonder of working dogs by Cat Warren

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova

Jill’s Picks

The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. You can see photographs of Gertrude Stein (one of which is attached to this blog) and read about her time at MBL here, and you can read John Ashbery’s article about Gertrude Stein here.

Resorting to Murder: holiday mysteries edited by Martin Edwards (part of the British Library Crime Classics)

The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude (part of the British Library Crime Classics)

Seaside Dreams by Melissa Foster (series is Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers) Set in Wellfleet.

Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng

Big Gay Ice Cream: saucy stories & frozen treats: going all the way with ice cream by Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint with Rebecca Flint Marx

The Backyard Bartender: 55 cool summer cocktails by Nicole Aloni

Vacation: we’re going to the ocean Poems by David L. Harrison, illustrations by Rob Shepperson

The Wild Braid: a poet reflects on a century in the garden by Stanley Kunitz with Genine Lentine

The Writer’s Garden: how gardens inspired our best-loved authors by Jackie Bennett, photography by Richard Hanson

Lost in Translation: an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world by Ella Frances Sanders

Vicky’s Picks

The Martian by Andy Weir