2005 Summer Reading ListEach spring, the College Store solicits from members of the Bates community their suggestions for good summer reads: Paula Jean Schlax, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry: …Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. This was a fascinating story about Kafka, a 15-year-old boy who runs away from home and ends up at a small private library and Nakata, a strange old man who has a connection to Kafka and the people he meets. The story delves in and out of time and dream type rea...
2010 Summer Reading ListWelcome! I welcome you to the 14th Annual Bates College Store Non-required Reading List, or Good Reads for Leisure Moments XIV. As in the past, this list includes submissions from across the Bates College community. Receiving three or more recommendations on the 14th annual list: The Help (Kathryn Stockett) Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout '77) Stieg Larsson trilogy Still Alice (Lisa Genova '92) Per usual, submissions are listed alphabetically by submitter's surname. We ap...
2004 Summer Reading ListEach spring, the College Store solicits from members of the Bates community their suggestions for good summer reads: Selected Poems 1950-1985 and His Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999, both by Philip Booth The first book of poems of the Castine resident are as consistently modest as the poet himself, who declines public attention at every opportunity - modest, yes, but lit from the inside because of the clean, hardworking words he always chooses. Although the latter book is out of print, it...
