Pull Up a Chair and Read
Do you call them Muskoka chairs or Adirondack chairs? Which is right? In 1903, Thomas Lee wanted outdoor chairs for his resort in beautiful Westport, New York and began experimenting. After getting feedback from family members he built something he called the Westport plank chair. He passed the design on to a carpenter friend named Henry Bunnell who, without Lee's knowledge, obtained both US and Canadian patents. Bunnell manufactured the chairs for 20 years. A department store in Lake Saranac, New York called them Adirondack Bungalow chairs and the name stuck–except in Ontario where we've made slight design modifications and renamed them after Ontario's cottage country.
Whatever you call them, settle down on your favourite summer chair and read one of these books–featuring Westport/Adirondack/Muskoka chairs on their covers.
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Barefoot Season by Susan Mallery
• eBook
• Large Print
Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
Return to the Beach House by Georgia Bockoven
• eBook
• Large Print
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Second Time Around by Beth Kendrick
Seven Year Switch by Claire Cook
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
What Remains: a Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love by Carole Radziwill
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
One thought on “Pull Up a Chair and Read”
An excellent post, M. I have to admit I run like the wind from these “beach reads”. Although I’ve been meaning to pick up Dorothea Benton Frank’s Folly Beach. I’ve been to Folly Beach – the Carolina Low Country is so evocative of our own Low Country – Essex County and the Point Pelee area. I hope the book is worthy of the wonderful setting! I wonder – when will publishers tire of this stock photo business?