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EIGHT FORTY-EIGHT

Al Gini's Summer Book Bag

originally aired 5.27.04
Part of reading, especially on vacation, is to let go and slow down, to get out of one's self and get lost in something else. Enjoy these summer selections whether your getaway is on the beach, on the go, or just on the porch.

Tom Perrotta, Little Children (St. Martins Press, 2004).

Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul (Nan A. Talese, 2004).

Stuart Dybek, I Sailed with Magellan (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2003).

P. D. James, Murder Room (Knopf, 2003).

Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Pantheon Books, 2004).
Phillip Margolin, Sleeping Beauty (HarperCollins, 2004).
John Dunning, The Bookman's Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel (Scribner, 2004).
Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water: The First Inspector Montalbano Mystery (Penguin, 2002).
Kathryn Harrison, The Seal Wife (Random House, 2003).
Peter S. Temes, The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War in Our Time (Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 2003).
Barbara A. McGraw, Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground: Public Religion and the Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America (SUNY, 2003).

 

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