Potluck on The Point with Mindy Todd!

This morning it was potluck on The Point with Mindy Todd, which meant we could bring anything that struck our fancy. I had lots of retro books, and Melanie was able to introduce us to another post-apocalyptic novel and a new genre for novels … clifi, for climate change fiction, a subset of lablit. If you want to reread Little Women, try Little Women: an annotated edition which was edited by Daniel Shealy. As it says in the introduction: “The textual history of Little Women provides valuable insight into the publishing world in the second half of the nineteenth century.” If that is just too big to lug to the beach, The Library of America has also come out with an Alcott volume, which includes Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys. The Library of America volumes always include great notes, and an attached bookmark!

Jill’s Picks

Perfectly Miserable: guilt, God and real estate in a small town by Sarah Payne Stuart

Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth. (and all the other Miss Silver mysteries) While no CLAMS library owns a copy of Grey Mask it is available as a Kindle book, and there are many other Miss Silver mysteries available in the CLAMS network.

David Hockney: a bigger exhibition

The Hand of the Small Town Builder: Vernacular Summer Architecture in New England, 1870-1935 by W. Tad Pfeffer

Virginia Woolf’s Garden: the story of the garden at Monk’s House by Caroline Zoob

The Bloomsbury Cookbook: recipes for life, love and art by Janes Ondaatje Rolls

Once Upon a Playground: a celebration of classic American playgrounds, 1920-1975 by Brenda Biondo

The Games We Played: the golden age of board & table games by Margaret K. Hofer

Melanie’s Picks

The Admiral by James R. Gilbert

The Last Ship by William Brinkley

Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s by Tom Doyle

The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America’s Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber