Coudal Partners' Field Tested Books

This weekend, we spent an afternoon reading on our back deck and drinking coffee. It was soooo nice, and the warm weather definitely affected our reading pleasure. With the notion that "our perception of a book is affected by the place where we read it," Coudal Partners just released their guide to Field Tested Books, where reviewers (including our own house tour host and author Elizabeth Crane) discuss what it's like to sit down with a good book anywhere from Evanston, IL to Buenos Aires, Argentina...

It's a great resource for summer reading. Links to a few reviews:

Elizabeth Crane reads Bicycle and other books

by Paul Fattaruso in Belchertown, Massachusetts

Michael Bierut reads The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré in Berlin, Germany

Lori Andrews reads The Journalist and the Murderer

by Janet Malcolm in New Orleans, Louisiana

Jim DeRogatis reads The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

by Stanley Booth on the road in the Midwest

Scott Smith reads Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse in Chicago, Illinois

For more book reviews from the Field Guide, click here.

Comments (3)

I just want to say that the deck (and the brick wall) makes me nostalgic for home. There's something about the scale and style of the deck that screams 'Chicago'.

Greer - You're so right. I saw that and immediately knew where it was taken! Home! *sigh*

I just read the review of Malcolm's book and was surprised to read almost nothing about her book.