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News & ArtsSaturday, June 6, 2009
Books Books for Summer
Posted by Paul Constant on Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM
This week in the book section, I review a couple of books that would be great summer reading for you.
You might like The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet if you like certain authors:
Late in Reif Larsen's debut novel, the titular character, a 12-year-old mapmaking prodigy, mentions E. L. Konigsburg's classic novel for middle readers, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. It's a telling reference: If you treasure Konigsburg's novel about two precocious children who run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you'll probably enjoy Larsen's story of a precocious young boy who flees Montana by train to accept an award from the Smithsonian. If whimsical fiction about children who are wittier and wiser than 99.9 percent of all adults isn't your thing, you should vigorously ignore this book.
But I wish I'd waited for the weather to get better to read Colson Whitehead's newest novel, Sag Harbor. It's ideal:
The lazy subject matter makes this the perfect summer novel: It's a book to read in a bright shaft of light, preferably outdoors so you can look away from the bright pages and see the whole happy world at play.
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