I thought I would be very bold and recommend some books for summer. They are books both for the armchair reader and the traveler.
Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton with pictures by Maxfield Parrish
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Anything by E.M. Forster, E.B. White, and James Thurber
What reading do you recommend?
5 comments:
A fun title for a book would be Gnomes and Their Gardens.
Having read the first Harry Potter book, I could recommend that. Short mysteries are also something I enjoy. Once, we were sent a short story, Murder In an Old Castle. It was sent as a Christmas gift and authored by the sender, someone who was already on our Christmas card list. It was a fine mystery, modeled after Agatha Christie.
Oh, and anything by John Bunyan, especially his classic The Pilgrim's Progress. Anything by Charles Spurgeon.
That is a fanciful title. I like it. It conjures an image. Gnomes are always happy. Someday you should send your original book for a gift. I would like that very much.
I have just read 'The Enchanted April' twice this month under suggestion of Susan and Genevieve. (they didn't actually recommend reading it twice). I saw the movie some 18 years or so ago, but had never read it. It was a treat. So much so that in a pinch for needing another book to read, I decided to re-read it.
How gleeful! I love you read it twice! It is too sublime. The language of Dante! Alright, too many exclamation points. But, well deserved don't you think? The film is superb too.
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