It’s time for our Winter Reading Show! We’ll talk about the season’s best bets, and some worthy perennials. Our guests are two professional book lovers, Lorrie Colburn of Fletcher Free Library in Burlington and Janet Kleinberg, the children’s librarian at Mark Skinner Library in Manchester. And we’ll take your winter reading suggestions. You can e-mail or call during the program, or e-mail in advance at vermontedition.net.
Also in the program: Board it if you can? Mad River Glen in Waitsfieldis one of the few skier-only mountains in the country, and it’s been targeted in a new campaign by Burton Snowboards to get snowboarders onthe mountain. We talk with a rep from Burton Snowboards about a contest that awards $5,000 for the best video proof of "poaching" a mountain,and we hear how Mad River skiers are taking the news from Jamey Wimble, president of Mad River Glen. And we continue our series of audio postcards with a visit to the coldest town in the state: we talk to a few folks in Bloomfield, Vermont.
List of books discussed on Vermont Edition Winter Reading
Program 12/13/2007
Adult fiction
A Thousand Splendid
Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Loving Frank: a Novel
(historical fiction) by Nancy Horan
The Yiddish Policemen’s
Union by Michael Chabon
Pillars of the Earth
and World without End by Ken Follett
Protect and Defend
by Vince Flynn
Mystery and Detective
Case Histories by Kate
Atkinson
Frozen Tracks an
Inspector Erik Winter Novel by Ake Edwardson
Botswana
Mysteries by Alexander McCall Smith
Italian mysteries by Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri
Graphic Novels
Persepolis
by Mar jane Satrapi
Adult nonfiction
American Creation
by Joseph Ellison
Golden Legacy : How
Golden Books won Childrens Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and became an
American Icon Along the Way by Leonard Marcus
Eat, Pray Love by
Elizabeth Gilbert
Amazing Rare Things:
The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by David Attenborough
The Nine by
Jeffrey Toobin
Proust was a
Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
What is the What
by Dave Eggers
Young Adult and
children
Counting on Grace by
Elizabeth Winthrop
The Dark is Rising
Sequence by Susan Cooper
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Gift of Nothing by
Patrick McDonnell
The Book Thief by
Marcus Zusak
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
by Jonathan Stroud
The Absolutely True
Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman
Alexie
Olivia Helps with Christmas
by Ian Falconer