Monday, July 21, 2014

Books for Hammock and Tea Caravan



Besides a bright bouquet of café tables set out around it, my tea caravan would have bookshelves, well-stocked with summer reading—small, delicious bites.
  • George Booth’s Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat (delightful dog cartoons)
  • Thurber’s Fables
  • Light-Gathering Poems
  • Marcovaldo
  • Virginia Woolf short-shorts
  • Sudden Fiction short-shorts
  • a whole shelf of Billy Collins
  • J.D. Salinger’s classic Nine Stories (with “DeDaumier Smith’s Blue Period” bookmarked)
  • Italian book of saints in art (a saint a day, in gorgeous color)
  • Rilke’s Book of Hours
  • The Pollen Path (Navajo stories)
  • Barbara Kingsolver’s essays, Small Wonder
  • Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking
  • Aldo Buzzi’s The Perfect Egg
  • Sue Bender’s Everyday Sacred
  • Gail Sher’s Four Noble Truths for Writers:  One Continuous Mistake
  • Eudora Welty’s collected stories
  • John Cheever’s collected stories
  • Pierre Bonnard:  The Late Still Lifes and Interiors
  • a little Ogden Nash
  • Harriet Doerr’s The Tiger in the Grass
  • Ruth Reichl’s Comfort Me With Apples
  • The Tao of Pooh
  • The Little Prince
  • Green Eggs and Ham
  • and, of course, Eloise



image:  summer reading, France d’art et de lumière

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