The theme for this month's book show is museums. Museums are homes to fascinating stories, not to mention incredible collections.
Jill Erickson, Reference Librarian and Rae Titcomb from Titcomb’s Bookshop in Sandwich are the guests. Mindy Todd hosts.
Listener picks:
Sight of Death by art historian and critic T.J. Clark.
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Picks by Jill and Rae:
THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER by E. L. Konigsburg
THE SECRET MUSEUM by Molly Oldfield
MURDER AT THE GARDNER by Jane Langton
THE MUSEUM OF WHALES YOU WILL NEVER SEE by A. Kendra Greene
ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD by Eiren Caffall
WORD MUSEUM by Sophie Ledesma
TREE OF LIFE: THE INAUGURAL EXHIBITON OF THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM
FOOTNOTES FROM THE MOST FASCINATING MUSEUMS by Bob Eckstein
Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum by Alasdair Beckett-King
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga
The Museum of the Wood Age by Max Adams
At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets - a collaboration between New York Review Books and the Louvre Museum
The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin
The Madman’s Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures, and Other Curiosities from the History of Art by Edward Brooke-Hitching