Some suggestions have come to me via email, so here are some more possibilities for you folks heading out to the beach, the mountains, or just wanting something different to read on the balcony or in the backyard:
One correspondent told me what he’s reading this year: “Simon Winchester - “A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.” Since I grew up in California, the San Francisco has been prominent in my learnings. This is a fascinating read, as he is primarily a chronicler of what people were doing at the time, events of the world, and then the geology of what happened. I read another of his books, “Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded”, and loved it, so I bought the other one. For those wordophiles out there, another of his books is “The Meaning of Everything — the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)” I have a few other books strewn around that I pick up and read bits and pieces of, but I don’t seem to be able to carve out time for as much reading as I would like. If you want to challenge your vocabulary, read Simon Winchester, as he uses a lot of unusual words and writes very well.”
My friend Edie adds, “I just finished The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger. I liked it better than I expected to, and learned something. Junger writes pretty well, I think.”
A member of a discussion list says, “I’m reading Apples and Oranges” (Marie Brenner) “part memoir about her relationship with her quirky brother. Excellent writing.”
So there are some more options for your summer reading. Make sure that you also read Carolyn Haley’s suggestions in her comment on my earlier post about summer reading. As for me, I’ve started a new (to me) series by my favorite author, who is writing under a different name for these books — Will Kingdom — and they’re keeping me up at night quite nicely, always the mark of a great story.
Keep your suggestions coming! And keep reading!
Jeannette Cézanne
Open Your Heart with Reading
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