For Summer Reading
Diocesan Press Service. June 5, 1963 [XI-2]
For most of us, summer means a different pace. For the mothers of school age children it merely means a change of routine. Yet it's a good time to read a little, reflect, and just enjoy the season. Hammock reading, or summer reading, is really not the same kind you can do in winter. The weather just isn't conducive to that second or third attempt at "War and Peace." The following books recently published are for varied tastes and moods:
"The I Hate to Housekeep Book' ( Harcourt Brace" $3.75 ) by Peg Bracken is a companion book to one she wrote called the "I Hate to Cook Book," and is almost as good. She says that when your ironing rises like bread, it is time to take it easy. No one loves a really meticulous housekeeper anyway.
"Forever Free" (Harcourt Brace: $5.95) by Joy Adamson is the final book about the African lion, Elsa, and her three cubs. The relationship between the author and her husband, a game warden, and the lions gives the book its unique character.
Octogenarian Herbert Hoover took time off from his memoirs to write "Fishing for Fun" (Random: $3.00), short, pithy paragraphs on his favorite pastime. He ought to know. President Hoover labors hard in his New York apartment in winter; he enjoys his vacations mightily deep sea fishing.
Edmund Fuller, a teacher at Kent School, and noted critic, has written a novel "The Corridor" ( Random: $3. 95 ) which is receiving wide praise. Believe it or not, it concerns a happily married couple. And Mr. Fuller seems intent on proving in the story about a day in the Adamson's lives that a happy marriage is not achieved by accident, but with good will and love.
A juvenile suitable for all ages is "Prayers from the Ark" by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold and translated by Rumer Godden. (Viking: $3.95). These are poems which are charming, full of tender feeling, and religious devotion. The illustrations are delightful.
Here is refreshing reading for hot weather days.