Monday 12/30/2002 through Tuesday 01/28/2003
(Pre-empted 1/6 & 1/20) |
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
read by Jim Fleming
(Dell; ISBN: 0385318375)
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A “relentlessly eventful, rollickingly funny and heartwarming narrative,” McCracken’s novel reveals a pair of vaudevillians in all their glory. |
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Theme: Music Hall Suite by Joseph Horovitz; Rennquintett (Bayer 100251) |
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| Wednesday 01/29 through Tuesday 02/11/2003 |
The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw
read by Karl Schmidt (Hyperion; ISBN: 07866772)
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Greenlaw's first book "The Hungry Ocean" established her as a writer of rare power. This book follows her return home to Isle Au Haut off the coast of Maine. She has given up swordfishing to join her father in harvesting lobsters, and noticing the business of living with a small group of vibrant people on a small island. |
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Theme: Ted Nash: Tango Sierra, from the disc Sidewalk Meeting (Arabesque AJ 0156) |
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| Wednesday 02/12 through Friday 02/21/2003 |
The Best of the Major by Galen Winter
read by Jim Fleming
(Country Sport Press; ISBN: 0892725400)
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Galen Winter's tales of Major Nathaniel Peabody (U.S. Army, retired) have engaged readers of Shooting Sportsman for years. This collection offers the listener the opportunity to meet the eccentric Major and enjoy some of his more colorful misadventures. |
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Theme: Astor Piazzolla: Libertango, Yo-Yo Ma, cello, from the album "Soul of the Tango" (Sony SK 63122) |
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| Monday 02/24 through Friday 03/14 |
Unless by Carol Shields
read by Judith Strasser
(Fourth Estate; ISBN: 0-00-714107-6)
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Reta Winters, 44 years of age, has started a new sort of life. She has discovered the meaning of loss for the first time. Reta's peaceful and happy world is shattered when her eldest daughter drops out to sit on a street corner with a sign around her neck that says "GOODNESS." Reta's attempt to understand becomes a meditation on meaning and hope. |
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Theme: Seymour Shifrin: Sonata for Cello & Piano; Rhonda Rider, cello; Lois Shapiro, piano (Centaur CRC 2267) |
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| Monday 03/17 through Tuesday 04/01 |
Backbone of the World by Frank Clifford
read by Norman Gilliland
(Broadway Books; ISBN: 0767907019)
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A journey along the Continental Divide, exploring the unforgiving landscape and a disappearing way of life. |
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theme: Robert Beaser: Mountain Songs--Barbara Allen; Eliot Fisk, guitar; Paula Robison, flute (MusicMasters Classics 67151-2) |
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| Wednesday 04/02 through Friday April 11 |
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
read by Jim Fleming
(Vintage)
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Selections from the most influential work of one of the foremost black intellectuals of his time. |
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Theme: Arthur Benjamin: Five Negro Spirituals for cello & piano; Justin Pearson, cello; Sophia Rahman, piano (Dutton CDLX 7110) |
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| Monday 4/14 through Friday 4/25/2003 |
Great Dream of Heaven by Sam Shepard
read by Karl Schmidt
(Knopf ISBN: 0375405054)
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Sam Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on Broadway, and brings that understanding of human striving for connection to this collection of stories. |
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Theme: Dunayevsky & Dreznin: Fantasy on the film music to the Circus, from the album"Le Cinema" with Gidon Kremer, violin & Oleg Maisenberg, piano (Teldec 17222) |
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| Monday 4/28 through Friday 5/23 |
Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House; ISBN: 0375502912)
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With knobby knees and crooked legs, Seabiscuit was no one's idea of a race horse, but looks aren't everything. His quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural icon. |
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Theme: Bob Crosby "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise" & Lionel Hampton "When the Lights Are Low" from the album "Jazz Age: Hot Sounds of the 20's & 30's" (Past Perfect PPCD 78131) |
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| Monday 5/26 through Friday 6/13 |
Two Lives: My House in Umbria by William Trevor
read by Karl Schmidt
(Penguin ISBN: 0140153721)
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A former madam befriends the other survivors of a terrorist bombing with surprising results. |
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Theme: Ivan Moravec Plays Chopin - Mazurka in A minor Op 17/4 & Mazurka in A minor Op 7/2(SU 3583-2-111) (This is one of four discs in a set; the others are devoted to Mozart, Beethoven & French Music) |
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| Monday 6/16 through Friday 6/27 |
Population: 485 by Michael Perry
read by Jim Fleming
(Harper Collins; ISBN: 0060198524)
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Michael Perry returns home to New Auburn, WI and connects with his community as a volunteer firefighter and EMT. Esquire magazine calls it “...intimate and disarming and lovely.”
Join your friends and comment on Michael Perry's adventures by coming to the Chapter a Day Book Club. There's an online interview with Mike as well! |
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Theme: David Goodrich: Accidentals of the West (www.davidgoodrich.com) |
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| Monday 6/30 through Friday 7/11 |
When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard
read by Karl Schmidt
(William Morrow ISBN: 0060083972)
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Stories from a master craftsman, featuring strong female characters in trouble. |
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Theme: selections from "Tribute to Ellington, Daniel Barenboim & Guests" (Teldec 3984-25252-2) |
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| Monday 7/14 through Friday 8/1 |
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
read by Jim Fleming
(Vintage ISBN: 1400030609)
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The exciting story of an orphan child chess prodigy who competes for the U.S. Open Championship, at the same time growing more and more isolated. This novel by the author of “The Hustler” was first broadcast on Chapter a Day in 1984, and has just been reissued by the publisher. |
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Theme: J.S. Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I; Sviatoslav Richter, piano (RCA Victor Gold Seal LC 0316) |
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| Monday 8/4 through Friday 8/22 |
Monkey Dancing: a father, two kids and a journey to the ends of the earth by Daniel Glick
read by Karl Schmidt
(Public Affairs; ISBN: 1586481541)
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The unexpected end of his marriage and the death of his brother led Daniel Glick to reexamine his life. The resulting decision to take his kids out of the classroom and into the world of experience makes a compelling story. For six months Glick, his thirteen-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter toured the world and learned to cope with loss and learning. |
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Theme: selections from "Sharon Isbin: Baroque Favorites" (WB 0927-45312-2) |
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| Monday 8/25 through Friday 9/19 |
Reversible Errors by Scott Turow
read by Jim Fleming
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux; ISBN: 0374281602)
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A profoundly satisfying legal thriller about death penalty litigation. |
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Theme: Miles Davis: "All Blues" from "Kind of Blue" (Columbia CK 40579) |
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| Monday 9/21 through Friday 10/3 |
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blassi
read by Catherine Brand
(Algonquin Books; ISBN: 1565123212)
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Can a middle-aged American chef meet the man of her dreams and move to Venice? Of course she can, but that doesn’t mean it is going to be easy. |
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Theme: various selections from "Putumayo World Music presents Italian Musical Odyssey" (Putumayo Put 159-2) |
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| Monday 10/6 through Friday 10/31 |
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
read by Jim Fleming
(Harper Collins; ISBN: 0066212855)
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The story of the ultimate natural disaster, as Winchester brings to life the scientists, boat captains and other observers of the catastrophic eruption of the volcano-island of Krakatoa. |
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Theme: Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain - andante con moto; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orch. - Gerard Schwarz, cond. (Telarc CD 80604) |
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| Monday 11/3 through Friday 11/14 |
Venetian Stories by Jane Turner Rowlands
read by Karl Schmidt
(Pantheon; ISBN: 0375422323)
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Stories evoking the hidden and day-to-day life of one of Europe's most mysterious cities. |
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Theme: Beethoven Violin Sonata # 1; Augustin Dumay, violin & Maria Joao Pires, piano (DG 471 495-2) |
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| Monday 11/17 through Friday 11/28 |
Staggerford by Jon Hassler
read by Jim Fleming
(Ballantine Books; ISBN: 0345333756)
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One week in the life of a Minnesota schoolteacher, a week that you'll never forget. This first novel established Hassler as a force to reckon with in the literary world. |
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Theme: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason: Harvest Home (Angel Records) |
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| Monday 12/1 through Friday 12/12 |
The Staggerford Flood by Jon Hassler
read by Jim Fleming
(Viking Penguin; ISBN: 0670031259)
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Written thirty years after "Staggerford," this new novel is centered on Agatha McGee. A flood threatens the Minnesota village of Staggerford, but the 80 year-old Miss McGee refuses to leave her house. Not surprisingly, she finds plenty of interesting characters to share the experience. |
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Theme: Jay Ungar & Molly Mason: Harvest Home (Angel Records) |
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| Monday 12/15 through Friday 12/19 |
Time Between Trains by Anthony Bukoski
read by Karl Schmidt
(Southern Methodist University Press; ISBN: 0870744798)
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Short stories detailing the lives of the working class residents of Superior, Wisconsin |
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Theme: Ivan Moravec Plays Chopin: Mazurka in a (Supraphon WU 3583-2-111) |
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| Monday 12/22 through Friday 1/30/2004 |
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
read by Karl Schmidt
(Grove/Atlantic; ISBN: 0802139256)
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Set in the early 1960s, Enger's debut novel is narrated by eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy whose close-knit family is broken apart after the oldest son, Davy, commits a crime of passion and becomes a fugitive. Reuben, his father and younger sister become immersed in a series of mystical events as they follow Davy's trail across the northern United States. |
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Theme: Beethoven: Sonata # 10 in G Major, Op 96; Augustin Dumay, violin; Maria Joao Pires, piano (DG 471 495-2) |
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