Summertime officially approaches, and the days are marked in Kansas City with thunderstorms and flood watches. No matter, though, if you're holed up inside with a good book.By The Walt Bodine Show
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KCUR's Elana Gordon welcomes back the Book Doctors (and one new one!) to talk about what they've been reading, and to advise on what books to throw in the proverbial suitcase for enjoyable or meaningful summer reading. Plus, just in time for Father's Day, a roundup of good books you might pick up featuring fathers or fatherhood: Guaranteed to be better gifts than yet another necktie.
John Mark Eberhart, Johnson County Library
Gina Kaufmann, freelance writer and performer
Kaite Stover, Kansas City Public Library
Recommended Reading:
Kaite Stover's Picks
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Summerland by Michael Chabon
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb
Gina Kaufmann's Picks
The Oysters of Locmariaquer by Eleanor Clark
Shame by Salman Rushdie
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell
A Natural History of Parenting: A Naturalist Looks at Parenting in the Animal World and Ours by Susan Allport
John Mark Eberhart's Picks
The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
Until I Find You: A Novel by John Irving
Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell
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