Books for an Adirondack summer
Most of us didn’t spend 2020 browsing in bookstores, so here’s a shoutout for some of the new Adirondack books that came off the press while we were at home washing our masks. These four novels and three books of nonfiction range from a murder mystery to a forester’s musings about Northeastern forests.
If you’ve missed the Ironman race:
Sports books aren’t my favorite genre, but Herb Terns’ novel “Iron Sharpens Iron” (The Troy Book Makers, 2020) is more than a series of training tips. Colden McIntyre, a Lake Placid native, wants to win the gold at the Lake Placid Ironman. But he works full-time as a chef at a downtown restaurant, doesn’t own a decent bike and has only recently learned how to swim.
It doesn’t help that Colden is his own worst enemy. He overtrains, obsessed with getting in double workouts even as he puts in long hours cooking at The Derby. But Colden has a training secret—a posse of good friends and relatives who ply him with insults as they become his coaches and training partners. They torture him with masks they’ve made of the face of Eberhard Gerwulf, the German
