This Shorewords podcast is the second of two episodes that offer some coastal reading options for SIPers (Shelter-in-Placers) – 19 reading options for Covid-19. Both lists have some fiction, some non-fiction and each reading option covers some aspect of the coast, the ocean, and often the people who live and work there. The reading list is provided below; listen to the podcast to understand why these books made the list, and feel free to send me your coastal reading list – [email protected]. If you ever want to hear me read poetry, this is your chance. To start, here is the second half of the list are: Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier Sea Change – Sylvia Earle Shipping News – Annie Proulx Song for the Blue Ocean – Carl Safina Travis McGee books – John McDonald Two Years before the Mast – William Henry Dana III Waves and Beaches – Willard Bascom Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens Lagniappe – The Sea – Pablo Neruda poem The books covered in the first episode were: Susan Casey – Devil’s Teeth and The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues Circe – Madeline Miller Endurance – Caroline Alexander and The Storied Ice – Joan Boothe Floating Coast – Bathsheba Demuth Gifts from the Sea – Ann Morrow Lindbergh Carl Hiaasen Books – Especially Tourist Season (with Shriners) and Stormy Weather (with Skink) The Hungry Ocean – Linda Greenlaw Kem Nunn Books – Surf Noir -- Dogs of Winter and Tapping the Source Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger

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