Summer Reading 2014 on The Point with Mindy Todd
This morning on The Point with Mindy Todd we discussed summer reading choices, including Jill & Melanie’s suggestions, as well as a couple of listener suggestions.
Jill’s Picks
NON-FICTION
Eighty-Nine Good Novels of the Sea, the Ship, and the Sailor: a list compiled by J. K. Lilly
The Map Thief by Michael Blanding
The Shelf from LEQ to LES: adventures in extreme reading by Phyllis Rose
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
Summer: a user’s guide by Suzanne Brown
Tag, Toss, & Run: 40 classic lawn games by Paul Tukey & Victoria Rowell
FICTION
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn (also mentioned in conjunction with The Decameron were Beowulf on the Beach by Jack Murnighan and the article by Joan Acocella called Renaissance Man: a new translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron which appeared in the Nov. 11, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.) There are many other translations of The Decameron if you want to give it try.
Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
Thornyhold by Mary Stewart (It is Chicago Review Press that is reprinting many Mary Stewart titles, part of their Rediscovered Classics series.
Melanie’s Picks
NONFICTION
The Closer by Mariano Rivera and Wayne Coffey
John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman
The Keillor Reader by Garrison Keillor
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher
FICTION
World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters
The Bees Laline Paull
FUN
Project Kid: 100 crafts to make with and for your kids by Amanda Kingloff
Be in a Treehouse by Pete Nelson
Also good (but lack of time this a.m.)
FaceOff thriller stories by wide variety of famous authors, edited by David Baldacci
A Woman’s Shed: Spaces for Women to Create, Write, Make, Grow, Think, and Escape by Gill Heriz
Cooking with Fire by Paula Marcoux
The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon
Listener Picks
Jerry suggested Five Days in London, May 1940
Betsy suggsted Sea of Grass by Conrad Richter and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.