For Many Americans Summertime is Reading Time
12 July 2011
Popular reading choices at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington D.C.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I’m Shirley Griffith.
STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Our subject today is books. For many Americans, summer is a good time to catch up on reading, whether the book is serious or fun. Some popular novels are called “beach reads” because they are fun and light stories that can be read while –possibly - sitting by the ocean on a beach. Some newspapers and magazines publish lists with summer reading suggestions. Today, we tell about some of those books.
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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: We start with a reading suggestion that seems a good choice for the summer. “Maine” takes place during a summer holiday at a seaside community in the United States. This is the second novel by New York-based writer J. Courtney Sullivan. It tells the story of three generations of women in the Kelleher family. They spend time together each year at the family’s summer home in Maine. Each woman is facing her own difficulties. Critics say “Maine” is a thoughtful story about desire, secrets, and the deep love of family.
STEVE EMBER: Writer Ann Patchett’s latest book is called “State of Wonder.” It tells the story of Marina Singh, a medical researcher living in the state of Minnesota. Her co-worker Anders travels to the Amazon River forests of Brazil to examine a research program his company operates there. The program is led by another researcher: Dr. Swenson. She lives with and studies a tribe of natives whose women are able to have babies into their seventies. Dr. Swenson and her team are working on developing a fertility drug from a plant the women eat every day.
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