Beyond the current bestsellers list ... Share your summer reading picks. Here are mine:
I finally saw the film Love in the Time of Cholera and then read the book. IMHO, skip the movie, but the novel by 1982 Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is beautifully written.
For historical fiction and George Eliot fans, I highly recommend The World Before Her by local (Lincoln, MA) author Deborah Weisgall.
Hamlet's Dresser is at once heartbreaking and uplifting, and one of the heroes is a librarian! Bob Smith's recounts how his lifelong love of Shakespeare was his salvation against the backdrop of a family challenged by his severely mentally and physically handicapped sister.
A more challenging read with a companion Web site is the Japanese coming-of-age novel Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. It would make an interesting end of summer read.
Soldier's Heart is a battle-induced medical condition and an apt title for this true story about teaching literature at West Point over the past decade to tomorrow's military leaders.
Shoot or Shute
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We are busily checking out books for the summer, stamped with a due date of
September 8, 2014. I
was gathering a stack of requests for a colleague, and as ...
11 years ago
I just finished Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carroll. It was very much my kind of novel: a present day thriller with ties to Shakespearean London. And there will be a sequel next year! A great book for mystery and historical fiction lovers.
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