Hi all! I recently stumbled across a list of books from the Christian Science Monitor advertised as “smart books for the beach.” I have not even heard of any of them — so, I would love to hear any comments or recommendations! By the way, I am trying out a few new functions from Amazon — so, try to hover over a title or image and see what you think!
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- Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
by Robert Harris
- Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Arthur & George
by Julian Barnes - The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
by Juliet Nicolson - Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo - Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell - The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret
by Seth Shulman - A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher Benfey
I read ‘A Summer Of Hummingbirds’ last winter. Though I did finish it eventually, I found it read more like a (beautifully written) informative piece of history rather than a novel. I found myself reading it in chunks; putting it down and reading it in between reading other books. It’s worth a stab.