Reading on the beach
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Living in the South, I'm very partial to Southern writers, but Pat Conroy's Beach Music is a work of art. The story bounces back and forth from SC to Italy, where Pat lived several years. PS to JAGIRL: My old copy of the Gleaner is a January '81 Tourist Guide, so I don't have headlines to share. Inside, the Hon. E.Anthony Abrahms was announced the new Minister of Tourism, I discovered that the Gleaner founder, Jacob DeCordova, drew the first map of Texas, and disco was advertized at the Pirates Perch with A popular Trinidadian , Lord Laro , as the featured entertainer. There was a large section in Deutsche., and several inserts of Jamaican proverbs.
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twigs, where do you live? I'm a transplanted Mississippian myself and just *love* Southern writers. Who are you reading right now? I just got Tom Franklin's new novel in the mail a couple of days ago, so I suppose I'll start in on that soon.
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I can second the Zadie Smith recommendation. I read White Teeth about 5 years ago, and read her latest, On Beauty, this past week on the beach in Akumal, Mexico. It was excellent.
I really like Anna Quindlen books. Brain candy books like The Devil Wears Prada and Candace Bushnell (author of Sex and the City) books are fun beach reads, too.
I really like Anna Quindlen books. Brain candy books like The Devil Wears Prada and Candace Bushnell (author of Sex and the City) books are fun beach reads, too.
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We live in the piedmont section of NC happily in between our mountains and beaches. Among the great Southern writers I would include Reynolds Price, and I've just begun The Robber Bridegroom by your fellow sister from Mississippi, Eudora Welty.
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Just thought of one of the funniest, dearest writers...Robert Fulghum. I love From Beginning to End, The Rituals of Our Lives and It Was on Fire when I Lay Down on It. Full of short, tender, funny observations about every day life.
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"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys is a good Caribbean choice. It's a sort of prequel to "Jane Eyre" and covers the years of Rochester's first marriage in the West Indies (to the madwoman who ended up in the attic). Very atmospheric & lots of fun to read when you're actually down there.