Summer Reading

Now that summer is - dare I say it - almost over, I am curious to hear about student readings over the past couple of months. Please add some thoughts on books you might want to suggest for others, or maybe even get for the new school library.

As for myself, I read several books this summer, but 3 of them are worth mentioning.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jumpa Lahiri, was brilliant. She wrote The Namesake a few years earlier which was made into a movie. Both are definitely worth reading.

My favorite travel writer is Paul Theroux and his latest, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a return to a trip he had made many years earlier and written about in an earlier book. It was very interesting to see the changes he saw along the way as he traveled through Europe and into Asia 30 years later.

And lastly I really enjoyed Tom Friedmans latest called Hot, Flat and Crowded a fascinating look at the climate crisis and the US after 9/11. Essential reading for surviving and competing in the 21st Century.

Ok, now its your turn....