Bench on Massachusetts Avenue in the South End.
(Dina Rudick/Globe Staff)
Sit. Relax. Read. Enjoy.
Bench on Massachusetts Avenue in the South End.
(Dina Rudick/Globe Staff)
Is there a more relaxing thing to do on a beautiful summer day than curl up with your Kindle on a park bench? OK, the Kindle might feel out of place, but the only thing that matters is getting lost in a story, right? Regardless of whether you turn or click to the next page, a park bench is a great place to read. And Boston has installed a few new ones around town. We went in search of the prettiest new benches and found some gems. Here are our recommendations for what book best suits what bench, but we’re sure whatever you’re reading will do just fine.
TRAINING FIELD/WINTHROP SQUARE 55 Winthrop St., Charlestown (near Bunker Hill Monument)
“The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington’’ by Paul Lockhart
“The Assist: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives’’ by Neil Swidey
“The Prince of Thieves’’ by Chuck Hogan
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, South End (just north of Tremont Street)
“Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson’’ by Wil Haygood
“Just Kids’’ by Patti Smith
“Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong’’ By Terry Teachout
CURLEY MEMORIAL PLAZA (beside the Holocaust Memorial, along Congress Street, across from Union Oyster House)
“The Reader’’ by Bernhard Schlink
“The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)’’ by Jack Beatty
“Number the Stars’’ by Lois Lowry
BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN, by the 9/11 Memorial (near the footbridge that crosses the Swan Boats)
“Let the Great World Spin’’ by Colum McCann
“The Submission’’ by Amy Waldman
“Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted’’ by Justin Martin
STATLER OFFICE PARK, Park Plaza 243 Stuart St. (across from McCormick & Schmick’s)
“Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters’’ by Donald Bogle
“Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein’’ by Julie Salamon
“I Was a Dancer’’ by Jacques d’Amboise
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