“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you’ve been following my blog, then you know that I figured this would be a great place to list all of the books that I read from 2013 to the present, I have broken these into multiple posts six months apart, and I’ve discovered that I read an average of 35 books a year. About 3 per week followed with a week off without any reading, digestion, and reflection period, if you will.
Here are the third annual summer vacation reading recommendations. Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of fiction with a splash of memoir and poetry and a little about the history of Portsmouth, NH.
It’s always a little more fun to read something when you’ve met the author or have some familiarity with them. I’ve been a long time fan of Charles McMahon via his Twitter feed and reporting for our local newspapers, so when history is not normally my favorite subject, I knew anything chuck wrote would be far from dull, and I was right. Please pick up a copy now, before they all sell out of Legendary Locals, you won’t be sorry!
Without further ado, in order of oldest to most recently read:
The Poet’s Tale; Lady Wentworth edited by Tammi J. Truax
The Fisherman’s Son by Chris Malloy
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The All-Girls Filling Station by Fannie Flagg
The Next Hunger by Kimberly Green
After Everything Burns by Ryk McIntyre
Beneath the Wool by Ryan McLellan
The Wild, Invasive Light by Ryan McLellan
Portsmouth Women edited by Laura Pope
Legendary Locals of Portsmouth by Charles McMahon
Tamara J. Collins 