Yes, Melanie and I were back chatting with Mindy this morning about Cape Cod authors, and I promise to post all our titles just as soon as I can. A big thanks to Bikeman’s sister for calling in with the exact dates of the reading! Missed the show this morning? You can listen to the rebroadcast at 7:30 this evening on WCAI, and the podcast will be available soon.

Here is the list of what we talked about rereading this morning.  If you want to hear the whole show, it will be rebroadcast tonight at 7:30 p.m. on WCAI Or if you miss that, you can listen to the podcast on the WCAI website

Nothing remains the same : rereading and remembering by Wendy Lesser

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy … translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog by Jerome K. Jerome

P. G. Wodehouse (being reprinted in lovely new editons by The Overlook Press)



Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh



Mrs. Dalloway by Viriginia Woolf



More Home Cooking: a writer returns to the kitchen by Laurie Colwin

“One of the joys of the summer is to go roaming through the garden, pulling ripe tomatoes off the vine and biting in. Juice and seeds drip all over your nice white shirt, but who cares?”

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Come to Me: stories by Amy Bloom (particularly the story “Love is Not a Pie”)

Children’s Books to Reread

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Stuart Little by E. B. White



Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

“Twelve Dancing Princesses” in Grimms’ Fairy Tales; illustrated by Fritz Kredel



Melanie’s Rereads



Pop stuff:

Pat Conroy, “Beach Music”

John Irving, “The World According to Garp”

Classics:

Charlies Dickens: “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations”

Edith Wharton, “The House of Mirth” or “Ethan Fromme”

Alice Walker, “The Color Purple”

Modern classics:

Thomas Keneally, “Schindler’s List”

Irene Nemirovsky, “Suite Francaise”

Anything by Richard Marius

Listener/Blog Reader suggestions:

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Titles Mentioned on The Point. Missed the show? Click HERE to listen online!

PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS

Pure sea glass : discovering nature’s vanishing gems / by Richard LaMotte

Shell chic : the ultimate guide to decorating your home with seashells / Marlene Hurley Marshall

In The Company Of Stone : The Art Of The Stone Wall : Walls And Words Dan Snow ; Photographs, Peter Mauss.

Pools by Kelly Klein

Poolside with Slim Aarons

ROMANCE

High Rising by Angela Thirkell

Life, Love and the Pleasures of Literature in Barsetshire (article that first got me interested in Angela Thirkell)

By VERLYN KLINKENBORG

Published: January 4, 2008

Summer Blowout

By Claire Cook

The Beach House

By Jane Green

A Summer Affair

By Elin Hilderbrand

Some Assembly Requried

By Lynn Kiele Bonasia

MYSTERIES

Careless in Red by Elizabeth George

The Fisher Boy by Stephen Anable

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

The Beijing Games by Pat DePaolo

Murder of an Irish Song by William Dougherty

The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber

Deadly Shoals by Joan Druett

Delusion by Peter Abrahams

Up All Night is a collection of ghost stories for teens, with one story written by Peter Abrahams

Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich

Paines Creek Mystery by F. Edward Jersey

CAPE COD/NATURE

The Last Fish Tale by Mark Kurlansky

Cape Encounters by Dan Gordon

Law and disorder in Old Nantucket / Frances Ruley Karttunen.

Image of America Series

Cape Cod confidential : true tales of murder, crime, and scandal from the Pilgrims to the present / by Evan J. Albright

Cape Cod harvest : a gathering in of Cape Cod stories / Jim Coogan & Jack Sheedy.

Cape Cod companion : the history and mystery of old Cape Cod / Jack Sheedy, Jim Coogan

Cape Cod voyage : a journey through Cape Cod’s history and lore / Jim Coogan, Jack Sheedy

Sail away ladies : stories of Cape Cod women in the age of sail / Jim Coogan.

Dennis journal / Jack Sheedy

The Cape Cod Canal : breaking through the bared and bended arm / J. North Conway

True accounts of Yankee ingenuity and grit from The Cape Cod voice / Theresa Barbo

Murder hill : a true story of 19th century crime & punishment on Cape Cod / Theresa M. Barbo.

Sloop : restoring my family’s wooden sailboat, an adventure in old-fashioned values / Daniel Robb.

Wildflowers of Cape Cod by Kate Carter

Backyard Birdsong Guide by Donald Kroodsma

MISCELLANEOUS

1001 books you must read before you die / general editor, Peter Boxall ; preface by Peter Ackroyd

Staying Put: making a home in a restless world by Scott Russell Sanders

Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck

LISTENER SUGGESTIONS

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

The Gathering by Ann Enright

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri