Classics on The Point with Mindy Todd
We don’t know if it was because everyone was snowed in or because you all really love classics, but we had more calls and e-mails today than we have ever had for any other book show that we’ve done! Thanks for your many, many suggestions! If you missed the show you can listen to the rebroadcast tonight at 7:00 PM on WCAI 90.1 FM, or listen online at capeandislands.org. Here are my picks, Janet Gardner‘s picks, and your picks! We continue our rotating guests on the book show, and it was lots of fun to talk books today with Janet. Here also is a link to the 100 Week Project that The Guardian is doing.
Here is an e-mail from a listener that didn’t make it to the air, but sounds like a great combo of books. “One summer long ago I read Herman Hesse’ Steppenwolf followed by Dostoyevski The Idiot followed by Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and it seemed they were meant to be read as a trilogy as I believed they were all 3 about the same struggle humans have with their thinking side vs. feeling sides and their animal vs civilized sides. I think everyone should read the 3 together!!!!”
Jill’s Picks
Genrefied Classics: a guide to reading interests in classic literature by Tina Froulund
Lost Classics edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, and Linda Spalding
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Penguin Books, General Editor, Christopher Prendergast
Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 By Colm Tóibín and Carmen Callil
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Graphic Canon edited by Russ Kick
Library of America editions of Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder And if you’d like to read Katherine A. Powers article about the Little House LOA books it’s called ”Darkness on the Prairie.” .
Janet’s Picks
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Books she brought but didn’t get to:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Walden by Thoreau
The Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Listener Picks
Jane Austen
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lad: a dog by Albert Payson Terhune (and his other dog stories)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (particularly the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
This House of Sky: landscapes of a western mind by Ivan Doig
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes
W. H. Auden poem as recited in Four Weddings and a Funeral
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Shining Tide by Win Brooks
Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel Philbrick
Natty Bumpo series by James Fenimore Cooper
Outermost House by Henry Beston
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
The Divine Comedy by Dante