Summer reading for the well-read
Friday, July 18th, 2008
The Fulton County High School summer reading list is 18 pages long (already about 15 more pages than the average Atlanta-area high-schooler cares to make time for, I reckon), and if you’re looking for a great young adult novel, or you haven’t read Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees* yet, that list is a great place to start. However, if you’re a serious reader of discerning taste, then why are you surfing this blog? then we’ve got some fine recommendations for you.
I asked six local book-reading (and some book-writing) types which books were best to get lost in, and the response was overwhelming (by which I mean to say they responded. To little old me). The respondents come from various areas of the Atlanta literary scene, so the books they recommend are all quite different.
Best book to keep in the bathroom:
Terry Kay, author — “The Verse by the Side of the Road, compiled by Frank Rowsome, Jr., with drawings by Carl Rose. Book contains all 600 of the roadside Burma Shave jingles, and it is an absolute joy.”
