It's our monthly book show, and the theme is beach reads.
Maybe you're looking for a fast-paced page-turner that you can easily get lost in while sitting in the sun, or a book that leaves you with a feeling of hope or a happy ending, providing an uplifting escape from reality.
Jill Erickson and Autumn Hassett join us with their picks.
We discussed these books:
- The Penguin Book of Mermaids edited by Cristina Bacchilega & Marie Alohalani Brown
- Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols
- Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
- Cape Cod Notebook: The Beaches of Cape Cod by Betsy Medvedovsky
- Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
- Waterlog by Roger Deakin
- Beachcomber's Guide to the Northeast by Dan Tobyne
- Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne Cox
- Ben Franklin's Big Splash by Barb Rosenstock
- Float by Anne Carson
- Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
- The Most by Jessica Anthony
- Shark House by Sarah Ackerman
- Silent Came the Monster by Amy Hill Hearth
- Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
- Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
- Swimming Holes New England by Sarah Lamagna
- The Joy of Wild Swimming by Lonely Planet
- Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
