Morning Read: A North Country reading list

The Glens Falls Post Star has compiled a great, holiday-season survey of writing from across the North Country, pulling together everything from poetry about the Lake Champlain Bridge to Revolutionary War history.  Here’s a sample:

Whether you’re an avid outdoor enthusiast or you just enjoy the outdoors through the comfort of an easy chair, check out “Heaven Up-h’isted-ness!: The History of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers and the High Peaks of the Adirondacks.” Written by several club members and compiled by Mike Becker, the book features profiles of a few of the original 46ers and their contributions, which keep the club dedicated to its purpose of “protecting and preserving the wilderness character” of the mountains, and exhaustive chapters of how each peak was named, its history and the topography that makes it unique. The last hundred-plus pages include the 46er membership roster from 1925 through Dec. 31, 2010.

To that list, I’d add Louise Gaylord’s latest mystery, “Dark Lake.”  The seasonal Old Forge resident writes this time about a suicide in the Adirondacks that sparks an investigation, according to the Adirondack Almanack’s review.

Also, Keene resident Russell Banks has a new book out this year called “Lost Memory of Skin.”  Check out the New York Times’ treatment here.

And finally, be sure to check out Ellen Rocco and John Ernst’s NCPR Winter Reading Call-In, which includes book ideas both local and from afar.  You can listen in here, or check out the Winter 2011 Reading List here.

So there’s a survey of book ideas.  If there’s a good book, North Country-local or otherwise, on your night stand, share it below.  What are you reading this holiday season?  And what do you recommend.