Winter Reads

This morning on WCAI's The Point host Mindy Todd talked books with Jill Erickson, Head of Reference & Adult Services at Falmouth Public Library and Jennifer Gaines, librarian at the Woods Hole Library. If you missed it you can listen online. Here is the reading list from the show this morning: Mindy's Pick The Nature of Cape Cod by Beth Schwarzman Jennifer's Picks Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Snow by Orhan Pamuk White Shaman by C. W. Nicol A Guide to Nature in Winter by Donald Stokes A Field Guide to Animal Tracks by Olaus J. Murie and Mark Elbroch Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendes Winter World by Bernd Heinrich Bark, a field guide to the trees of the Northeast by Michael Wojtech Brave Irene by William Steig Owl Moon by Jane Yolen Fox's Dream by Keizaburō Tejima Pioneer Girl: the annotated autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian Jill's Picks "First Snow" an essay by J. B. Priestley which can be found in both Apes and Angels and Essays of Five Decades. Midsummer Snowballs by Andy Goldsworthy The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder "Snow" by Mary Ruefle in The Most of It More Home Cooking: a writer returns to the kitchen by Laurie Colwin (includes Hot Lemonade recipe) Roast Figs Sugar Snow: winter food to warm the soul by Diana Henry The Snowflake Man: a biography of Wilson A. Bentley by Duncan C. Blanchard Home Made Winter by Yvette Van Boven Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik Gardens of Awe and Folly: a traveler's journal on the meaning of life and gardening by Vivian Swift The Story of Inkdrop and Snowflake & The Story of Snowflake and Inkdrop by Alessandro Gatti and Pierdomenico Baccalario, illustrated by Simona Mulazzani The Snowman by Raymond Briggs "Oranges" by Ronald Wallace The Great British Bake Off Christmas by Lizzie Kamenetzky