Book & Information 25 May 2007 09:01 am
NHPR Summer Book Preview
NHPR did their Annual Summer Book preview. Hosted by Laura Knoy, and the guests were Dan Chartrand, owner of Water Street Bookstore in Exeter and Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord.
Their TOP books for the summer:
Robert Olmstead’s Coal Black Horse. If you remember, I read this and was not overwhelmed by it. I read the fluffier books and I just did not care for this. However, the recommender described it as a book that will change you as you read it and it will stay with you long after you finish. And for sheer practicality… it DOES have a gorgeous cover!
Marylin Robinson’s Gilead. This book has sold very well at my bookstore since it came out last year in paperback. It is a letter from an older minister to his son. Sounds really interesting.
Head over to NHPR.org for their Full Top Ten Lists.
They also talked about Post-Harry Potter books. They recommended “His Dark Materials” series by Phillip Pullman (Golden Compass), Tanglewreck by Jeannette Winterson. L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time and Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy were also recommended by callers.
NHPR.org has one commenter who posted most of the books that people called in on. Thanks to Brady for that by the way!
So that was definitely a fun hour, hope this helps you pick out your summer reading!!! Make sure you check out the site and look at the top ten lists!!!
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on 27 May 2007 at 9:18 am 1.Justin said …
Brady is the NHPR webmaster, so it’s no wonder that he was all over getting the books posted. Sadly, my summer reading will mostly consist of finishing up the books that I’ve already started, and maybe getting to Clockwise Man from the new Dr. Who adventures if I manage to complete what I’ve already started.
on 27 May 2007 at 6:36 pm 2.gracefulshrimp said …
All the more reason to thank him then
Yeah, You are definitely not allowed to add any new books to your list besides the Fisher, Oracle Betrayed #3!