Hi all!
I'm so grateful summer is here. The past few months have been a challenge for everyone, and I'm hopeful that a new season will begin a new stage in life.
I'm also hopeful that you have been healthy and well, both physically and emotionally. This pandemic is certainly taking a physical toll on so many, and there is a palpable emotional toll as well. Please take care of yourselves. Love yourselves and each other. Talk to someone. Ask for help. Seek teletherapy. Know that you are enough, just as you are.
Okay. That was heavy to begin, but necessary. Now, the time has come...
SUMMER READING!
If you've read the blog in the past, you know that one of my favorite days of the year is the day I go to the library and check out ten summer reading books that I shamelessly judge by their covers. I don't know about where you are, but our library has been closed since March. Thankfully we've been able to check out children's books online, because otherwise my five-year old would have me reading the same four Dr. Seuss books night after night.
So this year I ordered the next book in the No. 1 Women's Detective Agency series, because I read the next book every time I go to the beach, and then I did my book sweep through my own personal library. Yes, you're correct. This means I have not read every book on my shelves--but no time like the present to get going!
So without further ado, here are the BIG TEN, the bonus two, book club reads, and the extras I borrowed electronically so I can read them at night when my husband's asleep.
BIG TEN
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe, McCall Smith
True Grit, Portis
The Death of Vishnu, Manil
Holidays on Ice, Sedaris
Living By the Word, Walker
Dust Tracks on a Road, Hurston
Lily Dale, Wicker
Beautiful Ruins, Walter
Above the Waterfall, Rash
The Printed Letter Bookshop, Reay
Bonus Two (Loaned to me by a friend)
The Invention of Wings, Kidd
The Book of Lost Friends, Wingate
Book Club Reads
How to Be an Anti-Racist, Kendi
Beloved, Morrison (our next read for my YouTube/Facebook series, "Time for Tea")
Late Night Reads
The Last Mrs. Parrish, Constantine
The Universe Has Your Back, Bernstein
The Willoughbys, Lowry
Autopsy of a Boring Wife, Lavoie
Happy Reading!
