{"id":1105,"date":"2021-07-06T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winthropcm.com\/insights\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:40:59","slug":"summer-reading-list-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winthropcm.com\/insights\/summer-reading-list-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading List 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is nothing quite better than reading a good book over the summer. For Summer 2021, we\u2019ve provided 5 summer reading recommendations, highlighting both classics and a few new gems.  The list reflects a lighter tone, which is likely the result of finally coming out of a pandemic after being couped up for nearly 18 months. We hope there is something on the list that sparks your interest and that you might pick up during your next trip to the book store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold<\/u><\/strong> by John Le Carr\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In honor of John le Carr\u00e9 passing at the end of 2020, we pulled out this seminal spy novel. One of le Carr\u00e9\u2019s first novels, the story follows Alec Leamas, a\u00a0British\u00a0agent in the autumn of his career, who was sent to\u00a0East Germany\u00a0as a ruse defection to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. The story occurs during the heightened tensions that characterized the late 1950s and early 1960s\u00a0Cold War and begins and concludes in\u00a0Berlin, about a year after the completion of the\u00a0Berlin Wall. The narrative is outstanding and it ranks as one of the best spy novels ever written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Address Book <\/u><\/strong>by Deirdre Mask<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When most of us think about street addresses, we think in terms of Google Maps and our ability to navigate through our smart phones. Our parents thought in terms of the mail being delivered to the right house for 10 cents a letter. In this wonderful book, Deirdre Mask explores street addresses and their link to people, history, class, and race. The history of street addresses traces back to the ancient Romans and how Nazis have haunted the streets of modern Germany. The Address Book<\/em>\u00a0illuminates the complex, and in some cases, hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts and who doesn\u2019t, and why.\u00a0Also, check out the \u201cWhat Three Words\u201d app. This app uses three unique words to show the coordinates for every 10 square feet around the planet and can be helpful in coordinating meetings with people now that we can meet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0by\u00a0Thomas E. Ricks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Principles<\/em>\u00a0examines the roots of American Democracy and was written following the election of 2016. The book explores the influence of\u00a0ancient Greece and Rome on the founding of the\u00a0United States\u00a0by looking at the educations, philosophy, and early lives of George Washington,\u00a0John Adams,\u00a0Thomas Jefferson, and\u00a0James Madison\u00a0as expressed through their speeches and writings.\u00a0In this New York Times<\/em> bestseller, Ricks brings to light the roots of American democracy when the early colonials were confronted by an imperial crisis. That crisis evolved into the independence movement. It was the American revolutionary\u2019s foundation in the writings and culture of ancient Greece and Rome that helped to navigate and form the new government. It taught them that the success of their initiatives depended above all on the cultivation of virtue, placing the public good before private interest. With the entrenched partisan politics and the gridlock in Congress over the past 15 years, this book helps to inspire readers with the principles on which our democracy was initially founded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat<\/u><\/strong> by Bill Watterson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 18 months of pandemic, we needed something light and easy to read. Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat<\/em>\u00a0fits that category perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a wonderful accumulation of Calvin & Hobbes<\/em> comic strips that chronicles the life of a young precocious boy Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes, who only comes to life for Calvin. Together, the two take on life\u2019s challenges and create their own opportunities through the eyes of a young boy.  Calvin contemplates life while rocketing down a hill in his wagon, torments Susie, daydreams through class in school and holds important club meetings in the tree fort. This comic strip is nothing short of brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Watterson wrote and drew the Calvin & Hobbes<\/em> comic strip with amazing detail and the strip was syndicated for only 10 years and then stopped. Watterson did not allow any commercial products to be licensed or reproduced. This book will make you smile this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by\u00a0Suleika Jaouad<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an inspiring, beautiful book about a woman\u2019s battle with cancer and her amazing journey, which she chronicled for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. However, the real world was about to take her into a journey she had not planned. What started as an itch, turned into a rash, and then exhaustion. She was diagnosed with leukemia and given a 35% chance to live just before her 23rd birthday. By the time she flew home to New York, she had lost her job and her apartment, and would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life.

After many rounds of chemo and a bone marrow transplant, she would walk out of the hospital, according to the doctors, cured. But, she had no idea how to reengage in life. Her story goes beyond survival and describes the adventure Jaouad embarks in over a 15,000-mile road trip to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital.\u00a0 Between Two Kingdoms<\/em>\u00a0is a profound story of survival and a loving, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin life over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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