List #6: A Few Seasonally Inappropriate Options for the Northern Hemisphere

July was very, very hot here. Disgustingly hot. If you've been having the same problem, here are some things to cool you off. (Click on the Rec. # links for more info.)


1. Last Night at the Lobster (Rec. #8), book by Stewart O'Nan: It's late December and employees at a Connecticut Red Lobster are working their last shift.

2. A Midwinter's Tale (Rec. #11), movie: An out-of-work actor stages a holiday production of Hamlet in a small village.

3. Northern Exposure (Rec. #35 and Rec. #161), TV series: In Cicely, Alaska, reluctant town doctor Joel Fleischman rails against rampant eccentricity.

4. Paris to the Moon (Rec. #39), book by Adam Gopnik: Read about the Winter Circus, French Christmas trees, and the Palais Royal in December.

5. Moominvalley in November (Rec. #109), book by Tove Jansson: Mymble, Toft, Fillyjonk, Snufkin, and others settle down to wait for the return of the Moomin family.

6. Death of an Englishman (Rec. #144), book by Magdalen Nabb: Marshal Guarnaccia can't join his family in Sicily for the holidays because there's been a murder, and everyone in his police department has the flu. Including him.

7. The Trouble with Harry (Rec. #145), movie: Nothing screams "autumn" quite like this deadpan Hitchcock comedy.

8. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Rec. #150), book by Peter Hoeg: Copenhagen, snow, young boy's death, snow, amateur investigation, snow, conspiracy, snow, snow, snow.