Rereading on The Point with Mindy Todd!

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