A Summer Book Recommendation Bonanza
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What books should you read this summer?
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Hello, I'm Gilbert Cruz, and this is the book review from The New York Times. I know that there is an official astronomically based beginning to summer, the solstice and all that stuff. But it is after Memorial Day, everyone. And as far as I'm concerned, it is summer. And what do we all like to do in the summer? Sit inside, get out of the sun, find an air conditioner, read some books. But what books should you read this summer? That's what we are here to figure out. I have called in some fellow editors from the book review to assist me to go through the next three months and call out a few things that we're all excited about. Jumanica team, you came back. I'm here. Hello. Hello. MJ Franklin, host of our monthly book club discussions.
Hello. Howdy and happy summer. Happy summer.
We're all summer birthdays in here. Summer birthdays are hard.
They're terrible. Yeah, it has made me not like my birthday.
I hate my birthday.
No one was ever around to celebrate it.
Thank you.
Likewise, my birthday is usually over Memorial Day. Oh, do you have plans, reading plans for the summer, MJ? Of course. I always like to treat the summer as a catch-up time. We have to work, but like in my brain, it's still school mode, summer vacation. And like, when else am I going to have time to read that giant 700-page novel? When else am I going to have time to read this classic? But then I like to be outside in the grass reading something fun and... Dorothy and Gilbert, you're scowling at me. But within us, there are two wolves, one monkish one that wants to read a classic and one that wants to read a crazy thriller in a hammock.
Is it going to have the bald spot?
Inside me, there's one wolf.
That is the inside wolf.
Inside wolf.
Shumana, how do you like to spend your summer reading time?
I prefer to be on the outer cape, the sort of forearm of the flexed bicep from the elbow up. Anyway, I'm going to read Anna Karenina for the first time this summer.
Ooh, I actually bought that too.
No way!
Buddy read?
Yeah, you have my number.
Why? What is in the air? Why is Anna Karenina? I don't know. For me, it was just that I feel like I've just read a bunch that references it. And it's been something that I've been meaning to read. But when am I going to have time to get around to it? The summer.
I think this might be a Rachel Cusk summer for me. Because I think that she's been overshadowed by the Outline trilogy. TBD.
Gilbert, what kind of reader are you on the summer?
So I feel like I've said on every summer episode that we've done that this is the summer that I'm going to read Middlemarch. I've wanted to read Middlemarch for years. Summer seems like the time. It's quite a large book. So I'm just going to put this intention once again out there into the world. This will be the summer I read it. Whether or not it actually happens, TBD. We are going to go through June, July, and August, all of us. And talk about books that are coming out, books that we are excited about.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What books should you read this summer?
0:00–13:35
2
Who is James Ellroy and what is his new book about?
13:35–20:13
3
What can we expect from Andrew Sean Greer's 'Villa Coco'?
20:13–26:32
4
What themes are explored in 'They All Fall in Love at the End'?
26:32–29:20
5
What is the plot of Ann Patchett's 'Whistler'?
29:20–39:55
6
What unique storytelling style does Isabel Waidner use in 'As If'?
39:55–45:01
Speakers
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