Have you thought about your plans for summer reading? Books don't have be set in summer, but books with a summer theme are fun. You can find a whole list of them on Goodreads' Listopia. NPR's Nancy Pearl lists seven books she recommends reading this summer. Find her with blurbs here at NPR. And NY Magazine offers suggestions from nine editors. Another source for books for summer is the large pool of books featured on this blog. Search this blog for "Tuesday Special" and find a wide variety of books worth checking out this summer.
HiDee is a happily voracious reader and has plans for her summer reading.
"I'm currently reading the Sullivan's Sons series set on Anna Maria Island by Ellie Arden, Kristina Knight and Katie Kenyhercz. After that, I've got a Kat Martin suspense book waiting!" she said.
I just finished reading my first summer read, and it left me sobbing. The book, titled The Mother's Promise by Sally Hepworth, was not a light-hearted read, but it was a very good read. In the book, three women's lives cross because one of them is diagnosed with cancer and her teenage daughter suffers from social anxiety to the max. She cannot die. She can't leave her daughter alone. It explores several issues relevant to women and the importance of supportive people in all of our lives.
Up next for me will be a book that is a breezier paranormal, Driven by Kelley Armstrong. Don't get me wrong, it's going to have plenty of action and tension of the scary, shifter kind. But it probably won't lead to tears. I know I'll thoroughly enjoy it.
When the heat gets really bad, like now in some places, take a cool break and please consider reading Captured by Christmas, an anthology authored by HiDee writing as Lainee Cole and me. Here's a blurb:
It’s Christmas, and the season of holly, Christmas trees, and goodwill is drifting on air in merry holiday wishes. Romantic suspense and paranormal author Lynn Crandall and contemporary author Lainee Cole present in their own way two stories of love in Captured by Christmas. However it finds you—under a Christmas tree or drifted in snow in a backwoods cabin—the spirit of the season will wrap you in love.
In Snowbound, Lynn Crandall lets readers check in on favorite Fierce Hearts series were-lynx characters Kennedy Mitchell and Asher Monroe as they uncover the identity of the creature scaring the humans in Octavia, a small rural community in northern Michigan. Plans for an intimate getaway and family-style holiday are crumbling as the snow piles higher and Kennedy and Asher find themselves snowbound with a killer outside their door.
In The Mistletoe Effect, Christmas is second-grade teacher Tess McCall’s least favorite holiday, but she’s doing her best not to let it show. Learning he’s a father to seven-year-old Holly makes Alex Randle anxious about the upcoming holidays. When Tess’s class starts reading to shelter dogs, Holly and the antics of shelter dog Mistletoe lead them all to rediscover the magic of Christmas.
You can find Captured by Christmas on Amazon and other retailers.
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What books are on your summer reading list?
9 comments:
Can't think of a better way to spend these hot, humid days than reading! Reminds me of my younger days... :)
Summer is made for reading great books! I remember reading "Gone With the Wind" one summer, and "Beach Music" and "The World According to Garp." Also "The Poisonwood Bible" and "A Light Between Oceans." This summer I'm reading "Warlight" for a book club, but I sneaked in "The Woman in the Window" first. So many great choices, and still two months to go.
Around the middle of July, I'm usually in the mood for some Christmas reads!
Saralyn, those books are all good ones. Thank you for visiting.
Angela, it's so nice to think of cuddly and Christmas and snow outside. Thank you for stopping by.
Anybody reading "The Punishment She Deserves" by Elizabeth George? Good story--Just don't carry it into the water with you; it weighs approximately as much as an anchor.
Beautiful! Thank you.
-R.T.
Thank you, RT.
Helen and Lori, thank you for stopping by and sharing a title. I promise I won't take it into the water. LOL
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