Summer Reading on The Point
Here is today’s list of suggestions. If you missed the show you can hear it on WCAI tonight at 7:30 or listen to the podcast.
Listener Suggestions:
Anything by Christopher Moore! Especially Fool and Lamb (those are two different titles I might add!)
A Stopover in Venice by Kathryn Walker
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Childs
Jill’s Suggestions:
Beowulf on the Beach: what to love and what to skip in literature’s 50 greatest hits by Jack Murnighan
Summer by the Seaside: the architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950 by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook
Blindspot by Jane Kamensky (Set in Boston 1764)
And I forgot to mention, but really enjoyed The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (set in the 1940s part ghost story, part commentary on English class system, part love story, really well told although it drags a bit in the middle).
Summer Reading Lists to Look at:
Steven King’s 7 Great Books for Summer
Cape Cod Life’s Thirty of the Best Books About Cape Cod and the Islands
Library patron suggestions from our twitter feed (you can follow us a falpublib):
Cocaine Blues: a Phryne Fisher Mystery by Kerry Greenwood (this was the one described as “picture James Bond by Angelina Jolie during the roaring twenties).
Codex 632 by Josse R. dos Santos (secret identiy of Christopher Columbus)
Turning Tables by Heather & Rose MacDowell (laugh out loud funny)
English garden mysteries by Anthony Eglin
Breakfast at Sally’s: one homeless mans’ inspirational journey by Richard LeMieux
Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
Melanie’s Suggestions
Sargent’s Daughters: Biography of a Painting Erica E. Hirshler (Editor’s note: This book is due out in October! Melanie must have gotten a review copy.)
Death and Honesty Cynthia Riggs
Diamondhead Patrick Robinson
The Story Sisters Alice Hoffman
Life Without Summer Lynne Griffin
Pleasure Island Robert McLaughlin
The Nantucket Reader edited by Susan F. Beegel
Josh, the Baby Otter by Blake Collingsworth
The Cods of Cape Cod written by Ed Shankman and illustrated by David O’Neill
Pocket Posh Crosswords Andrews McMeel Publishing
Hello! My name is David O’Neill, and I’m the illustrator of “The Cods of Cape Cod!” Thanks so much for adding our book to your suggestions, Melanie! Hope you like it! http://oneilldave.blogspot.com/
Hey David, Thanks so much for your comment. Sorry that Commonwealth Press’s site has been down so I couldn’t link to your book, but I see they are back and I’ll put up a link right now! Jill
Melanie,
Thank you so much for recommending our book. “Josh the Baby Otter”. We hope many children can enjoy this story and most importantly learn the important message of staying with an adult when they want to be around the water.
Blake Collingsworth