Librarians Eric and Sharon discuss their reading plans for the summer, re-reading books from our past and the mental health benefits of slow and deliberate reading.
Eric's Summer Reading List:
- Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Short Stories, and The Violent Bear it Away
- Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs
Recent Readings:
- Ronald Johnson - The Book of the Green Man
Shelf Inflicted TBR:
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Sharon's Summer Reading List:
- Herman Melville--Moby Dick
- Philip Hoare-The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea and Albert and the Whale
- Sena Jeter Naslund-Ahab's Wife, Or, The Star Gazer
- Virginia Woolf--To the Lighthouse
- Jazmina Barerra--On Lighthouses
Recent Readings:
- Kevin Parr-Quiet Moon Katherine May-Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in Anxious Age
Shelf Inflicted TBR:
- Pirkko Saisio, translated by Mia Spangenberg-Red Book of Farewells
Recommended Podcast:
Katherine May: How We Live Now: Pathways for a Post-Everything World
Podcast — KATHERINE MAY (katherine-may.co.uk)
