Librarians Eric and Sharon discuss their reading plans for the summer, re-reading books from our past and the mental health benefits of slow and deliberate reading.

Eric's Summer Reading List:

• Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Short Stories, and The Violent Bear it Away
• Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs

Recent Readings:

• Ronald Johnson - The Book of the Green Man

Shelf Inflicted TBR:

• Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic

Sharon's Summer Reading List:

• Herman Melville--Moby Dick
• Philip Hoare-The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea and Albert and the Whale
• Sena Jeter Naslund-Ahab's Wife, Or, The Star Gazer
• Virginia Woolf--To the Lighthouse
• Jazmina Barerra--On Lighthouses

Recent Readings:

• Kevin Parr-Quiet Moon Katherine May-Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in Anxious Age

Shelf Inflicted TBR:

• Pirkko Saisio, translated by Mia Spangenberg-Red Book of Farewells

Recommended Podcast:

Katherine May: How We Live Now: Pathways for a Post-Everything World Podcast — KATHERINE MAY (katherine-may.co.uk)