Asbury Park Zest The Rainbow Issue Summer 2015 | Page 38

S UMME R R EA D I N G

Asbury Park Zest
Editor’s Summer
Reading List
by Yolanda Navarra Fleming

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f you’re like me, you’ve been fantasizing about that special slightly overcast
breezy summer day on the beach with
not much more than a cold drink, a comfy
beach chair, and a book that will transport
you to another time and place. If you don’t
yet have a title in mind, here are some choices
you may not have already considered.
Have you heard about the new mini-library
on the corner of Cookman and Grand aves?
The Little Free Library welcomes you to stop
by and either pick up a book or drop one off.
Lovingly constructed by resident Brian Watkins, he used pieces of the demolished Charms
building on Heck St and Monroe Ave, as well
as the door from a house torn down on Fourth
Ave. You may recognize the design borrowed
from the old Palace Amusements building on
Cookman Ave.
Jan Sparrow, owner of the Cookman Ave’s
words! bookstore, offers some suggestions for
this rainbow enlightened list as well.
“What better time to read, on a beach, on
vacation, on long summer nights with lots of
remaining daylight?” she asks. “(There are)
lots o