Many bloggers are posting their summer TRB- so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon. Here’s what I PLAN (doesn’t mean it will happen) on reading over the next few months- side note: I don’t really think summer begins till July 4, but my reading habits will become summerlike as of today!
- “An Unexpected Turn” by TJ Fox- TJ is one of my blogging buddies and I would love to do a book discussion with her book. Please join me in reading this novel so we can all discuss together!
- “Mrs. Everything” Jennifer Weiner
- “The Friends we Keep” Jane Green
- “The Plus One” by Sarah Archer
- “Evvie Drake Starts Over” Linda Holmes
- “How Not to Die Alone” Richard Roper
- “The Stone Circle” Ruth Galloway
- “How Could She” Lauren Mechling
- “The Most Fun We Ever Had” Claire Lombardo
- “Sunset Beach” Mary Kay Andrews
- “The Printed Letter Bookshop” Katherine Reay
- Jay Cudney- Academic Curveball Series
I know I will also have some book club selections in the mix, but I won’t know them till they announce them!
What are your summer reading plans?
I was thinking of “Great Expectations” again this summer. It feels right, somehow. 🙂
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My daughter loves Dickens. Me…not so much. But I did reread for book club last year, so there’s that
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*sigh* things we say now! :o) good luck with your list!
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…although that Jane Green looks good. might check that out, too…
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I always read her. She’s an author I do remember!
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I’m gonna bring some German books home from Switzerland. 😉
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Yay!!
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“Breaking the Rules” Suzanne Brockmann; “The Thieves of Darkness” Ricard Doetsch and some little known authors on my kindle. I like to follow protagonists and series usually with crime or solving family issues.
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My husband does too
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TJ Fox sounds so familiar or am I thinking of an author with the last name of Box? She writes a series of crime novels.
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Tj is a blog buddy so you might recognize her from here
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I don’t have specific plans. It all depends on what comes in for me at the library and when. I will go to a conference this month where there will be piles of ARCS so that will likely make my summer reading decisions for me.
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That’s nice! I never look far ahead except for summer because I tend to read a little more in the summer
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I don’t have a summer reading list per say. What I read during the summer is pretty much the same as what I read the rest of the year. That said, in Julu I am taking part in a readalong of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
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Ooh…that’s a good one to do a readalong to
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I have #2 on my “to acquire” list, but I already have so many books on the shelf that it will be some time before that one enters the mix.
Thanks for the note about TJ’s book. I’ll check into that one!
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I’ve never had a list of books to read! I do have something on Goodreads, but I’ve never actually referred back to it. Hahaha! maybe I should.
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I do for summer because I tend to read more and I get antsy if I need to look for a book to read! Also, the books released in the summer are just fun
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I’ll be reading Elin Hilerbrand’s latest, The Summer of 69, as her annual July release is always my first beach book. And Mary Higgins Clark’s newest for the same reason. I am a creature of habit.
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Well, Jane green and Jennifer Weiner hav3 been on my list for years…so creature here too!
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I recently read and loved “The Stone Circle” by Elly Griffiths! The only books I’m reading for certain this summer are “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore” (Sloan) and “Little Fires Everywhere” (Ng), which are for book club. I’m not a particularly fast reader, but I usually fit in something about writing and a mystery.
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I love Ella griffiths! Little fires was really good, and great for book club!
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Thank you, LA! I’m really excited to get your take on that.
I don’t really have a TBR of any kind because I’m such a mood reader. I have several lists on Amazon in different areas of books I’ve run across that sound interesting, so that when I’m trying to find something to fit a mood, I’ll refer to those lists. The only books that are certain are the books that will come out by some of my favorite authors. Those I read on release day, or as close as possible. I only have two that are coming out in the summer. Angela Marson’s “Child’s Play” and Michelle West’s “War”. Both are part of an ongoing series.
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The summer I’m all about light novels! I need things I don’t need to think about!
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I make a list at the beginning of the year when I get the PopSugar Challenge prompts and I try to go through my bookshelves to find ones to fit them. I have read all those so now is a good time to go through and pick some more. Jay’s books are great, aren’t they? They fit my categories too!
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Love Jay!! I’m thinking next year I might do pop sugar
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PopSugar is fun and I find it helps me read things outside my normal comfort zone of mysteries since I want to fill the categories.
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Do you have trouble fitting the categories?
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Sometimes but I have never been able to finish all the categories in a year anyway so I do the easy ones first. And, I’m trying to read books that I already have on my shelves. A couple of times I’ve gotten some from the library to match.
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I think that would be the hardest part, filling the categories. But I think I’m going to try!
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The only one I recognize is the Academic Curveball series.
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I found some of them on books of summer lists, and some are my go to authors
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I think I recognized a couple author names but other than Jay I haven’t read any of them.
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They’re all fairly light summer fare…
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I will have to look them up and see if I might be interested in reading any of them.
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Reading Becoming and looking for a great mystery as well as any new Danielle Steel books.
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What kind of mysteries do you like?
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I like thrillers and cozy mysteries💗💗💗💗💗
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Ok. I have a friend Jay (James) Cudney. He wrote a series of books (and they go on sale on kindle occasionally) called Academic Curveball series. I’m reading them this summer, but I’ve read his other books and I adore him, so you can check them out. Elly Griffiths writes some good ones too, but not exactly cozy but I think they’re well done
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Thank you checking them out now! Thank you so much!
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Becoming was excellent! If you like audiobooks, I recommend listening to it because she’s the reader and it adds depth in her own voice.
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Don’t have a summer specific tbr list. I do have a general tbr list. I just don’t keep track of what’s on it. When I finish one book, I’ll check the list on my library app to see if there’s anything that strikes my fancy this time around. If there isn’t, I’ll hit up my Kindle app. I have tons there that need to be read.
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I only do a summer list. The rest of the year I kind of wing it
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I just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s “Unsheltered.” A masterful rendering of historic events you never heard of, meshed with modern anxiety. Below that in the stack is Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Tour Mind.” A friend gave me “The Overstory” by Richard Powers (no promises on that one). I’ve also got “The Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman (a WWI nonfiction classic). Now, aren’t you sorry you asked? 🤭
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Never! I’ve never read Kingsolver but all my friends say the books are wonderful
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Try this one – it’s one of her best.
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Thank you!
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10 of your 12 listed writers are female, lol I’m not actually making a point but a kinda interesting observation don’t you think?
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Actually I knew it would skew female in the summer cause I tend to lean towards light fair about families and friendship, which tend to be by female authors. I want easy and predictable for summer
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I’ve no plans. I just kind of go with what scratches my itch. Although I do have a trilogy I’ve yet to read written by someone I know. So I’ll do that first and go from there.
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I don’t plan out other times, but I like to have a summer book at the ready
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Understandable.
Love the title. Very Don Henley.
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That’s exactly what I was riffing
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If you look at my shelf of books, you’d think they would be my answer. But I don’t know how many of them will actually get read.
I have a few recent purchases that were written by friends, and they will be next. They are chapter books and middle grade because as a children’s author those are my friends’ books. 😊
I like the larger font.
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My summer TBR:
SMART Strengths by David N. Shearon, John M. Yeager, and Sherri Fisher
Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom by Dina Brulles and Susan Winebrenner
(Finishing up a course in educational research)
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson
The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Too Much and Not in the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Add a huge stack of Southern Living mags and numerous children’s books I’ll read to Baby K when she comes to visit in July and maybe just maybe Good Omens before I watch the show.
I’m SO ready to lie about and read this summer!
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I read Rules of Civility. Interested in discussing when you read it
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I look forward to it!
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My summer reading plans are to catch up on ARCs and other reading commitments I overextended myself into doing.
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Good plan!
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My current summer project : read 48 books from 48 Asian countries. I’ve gone through 4 so far :
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi
The Accusation by Bandi
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
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Amazing TBR list. I have this huge list of YA Fantasy novels. I have to add some of Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s books too.
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