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Wisconsin Public Radio - Chapter A Day.
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| Monday November 28 through Friday December 23, 2011
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An Irish Country Christmas
by Patrick Taylor
read by Karl Schmidt
(Doherty/Tom; ISBN 13: 9780765366856)
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 Taylor returns to Ballybucklebo, where doctors O'Reilly and Laverty are practicing country medicine. The holidays provide a different look at the eccentric village residents.
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theme: "Anam" performed by Clannad on the album "Anam" (Atlantic) |
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| Monday November 14 through Friday November 25, 2011 |
Lime Creek: a novel
by Joe Henry
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House; ISBN 13: 9781400069415)
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 The story of a Wyoming ranch family sometime in the 20th century. |
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theme: Copland: Red Pony Suite; New Philharmonia Orch - Aaron Copland, cond. (CBS MK 42429) |
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| Monday October 24 through Friday November 11, 2011 |
American Boy
by Larry Watson
read by Jim Fleming
(Milkweed; ISBN: 978-1-57131-078-1; AMERICAN BOY can be purchased at your local bookstore, or by contacting Milkweed Editions directly, at 1 (800) 520 - 6455)
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 The author of Montana 1948 and Justice is back with coming of age story from the heartland of Minnesota in 1962 that will break your heart, and win you over. |
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theme: Bernstein: West Side Story Suite; Lucian Plessner, guitar "Bernstein on Guitar" (CPO 999 505-2) |
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| Monday October 10 through Friday October 21, 2011 |
Summers: A True Love Story
by Margot Peters
read by Susan Sweeney and Jim Fleming
(Xlibris; ISBN-13: 9781456897116; you can order from Margot Peters margot13.peters@charter.net)
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 A story in letters between a boy and a girl, letters which span the years 1949-1960. |
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theme: Eric Chesney: "Guiquenout" & "I Remembered You Today" from the album "The Pardoner's Refrain" (e.chesney@hotmail.com) |
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| Monday September 12 through Friday October 7, 2011 |
Doc: a novel by Mary Doria Russell
read by Karl Schmidt
(Random House; ISBN 978-1-4000-6804-3)
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 A fresh, imaginative portrait of the legendary Doc Holliday. |
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theme: Bill Frisell - "Gimme a Holler" and "Go Jake" from the album "Nashville" (Nonesuch) |
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| Monday September 5, 2011 through Friday September 9, 2011 |
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf; ISBN13: 9780307272089)
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 Oliver Sacks writes in his usual extraordinary manner about people who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. Further excerpts not broadcast earlier this year. |
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theme: Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu, Op 66 et al from "Chopin Favorites" Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (London 417 798-2) |
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| Monday August 22 through Friday September 2, 2011 |
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much : The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
by Allison Hoover Bartlett
read by Jim Fleming
(Penguin; ISBN-13: 9781594484810)
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 John Charles Gilkey steals rare books, but only for love-the love of books. Ken Sanders wants to catch him. For Bartlett it's a fascinating chase, but also a search to find out: What is it that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love? |
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theme: Charlie Parker: Bird, The Savoy Recordings, Volume 1 - "Tiny's Tempo" and "Red Cross" (Savoy Jazz ZDS 4402) |
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| Monday August 1 through Friday August 19, 2011 |
An Irish Country Doctor
by Patrick Taylor
read by Karl Schmidt
(Doherty; ISBN-13: 9780765368249)
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 A naive doctor just out of medical school is introduced to life in a small Irish village filled with eccentric residents. |
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theme: "The Precious Jewel" from "Beyond the Missouri Sky" - Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny (Verve 314537130) |
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| Monday July 4 through Friday Friday July 29, 2011 |
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
read by Jim Fleming
(Random House; ISBN13: 9780812981223)
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 The quiet village life of Major Pettigrew changes forever with the unexpected friendship of Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village |
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theme: Elgar: Introduction & Allegro, Op 47; English String Orch - Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210/13) |
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| Monday June 13 through Friday July 9, 2011 |
The Lotus Eaters
by Tatjana Soli
read by Norman Gilliland
(St. Martin's Press; ISBN-13: 9780312674441)
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 A novel of an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War. |
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theme: "Little Wing" and "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix
Played by Benjamin Verdery on
Newport Classics NPG 85509
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| Monday May 16 through Friday June 10, 2011 |
Twice a Spy
by Keith Thomson
read by Jim Fleming
(Doubleday; ISBN13: 9780385530798)
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 The return of the characters from Once a Spy, heard on Chapter a Day last year, once again asks the question "What happens when a former CIA agent can no longer trust his own mind?" Charlie and Drummond Clark are hiding out in Switzerland when Alice is kidnapped and the action begins. |
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theme: Ellington: "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" Ramsey Lewis & Billy Taylor (CBS MK 44941) |
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| Monday April 11 through Friday May 13, 2011 |
Driftless by David Rhodes
read by Karl Schmidt
(Milkweed; ISBN 978-57131-059-0)
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 A story from the "driftless" area of Wisconsin, about a town apparently left out of time. It's an unforgettable slice of life in rural America |
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Theme: Haydn: The Seven Last Words - introduction; Emerson Quartet (DG B0002053-02) |
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| Monday March 28, 2011 through Friday April 8, 2011 |
Sweet and Sour Pie: A Wisconsin Boyhood by Dave Crehore
read by Jim Fleming
(Terrace Books; ISBN13: 9780299230609)
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 In 1950 the Crehores, 7-year-old Dave and his parents, moved from Ohio to Manitowoc, WI. His memoir is filled with the satisfying life and adventures of a Wisconsin in the middle of the 20th Century. |
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Theme: Rube Bloom: Spring Fever, Duke Ellington: Solitude; Alan Feinberg, piano from the disc "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Argo 444 457-2) |
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| Monday March 14, 2011 through Friday March 25, 2011 |
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by Deborah Blum
read by Norman Gilliland
(Penguin; ISBN13: 9781594202438)
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 If only your high school chemistry class had been this good. It's a fascinating account of two forensic pioneers in early 20th-century New York, and brings the art of chemistry to life. |
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theme: "Goose Pimples" and "Sorry"
recorded in 1927 by Bix Beiderbecke
reissued on Columbia CX 48175.
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| Monday February 28, 2011 through Friday March 11, 2011 |
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
read by Jim Fleming
(Knopf; ISBN13: 9780307272089)
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| Oliver Sacks writes in his usual extraordinary manner about people who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. |
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theme: Chopin: Fantaisie Impromptu, Op 66 et al from "Chopin Favorites" Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano (London 417 798-2) |
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| Wednesday February 16, 2011 through Friday February 25, 2011 |
Hollywood: A Third Memoir
by Larry McMurtry
read by Karl Schmidt
(Simon and Schuster; ISBN13: 9781439159958)
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 This is the third and final memoir detailing McMurtry's more than forty years in Hollywood. Though he's best known as a novelist, his story of the process of film making is compelling |
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theme:"Peace Piece" from Kronos Quaret - Music of Bill Evans (Savoy Jazz) |
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| Monday January 24, 2011 through Tuesday February 15, 2011 |
The Quickening
by Michelle Hoover
read by Susan Sweeney
(Other Press; ISBN: 9781590513460)
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 Inspired by the life of the author's great-grandmother, this is a moving story of two Iowa farm wives struggling to survive during the Depression. |
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theme: Aaron Copeland's "Letter from Home" St. Louis SO - Leonard Slatkin (EMI CDC-7 49766 2) |
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| Monday January 3, 2011 through Friday January 21, 2011 |
Work Song
by Ivan Doig
read by Jim Fleming
(Riverhead; ISBN-13: 978-1594487620)
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 Morrie Morgan, the itinerant schoolteacher and charmer from Doig's The Whistling Season returns to Montana, to Butte in 1919 and "the richest hill on earth." The story of copper mining and union/management conflict reveals an important moment in American history. |
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theme: selections from "Fiddle Fever" (Flying Fish FF 70303) |
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If you have a comment or a question, send a message to Jim Fleming.
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