Summer! Sand, surf, BBQs, fruity drinks with umbrellas, and books! Lots and lots of books. I see summer as a time of literary exploration where I can muck about with titles and tombs I wouldn’t normally reading during the year because spare time is at a premium. Classics, gothic, mystery, crime, horror, historical. I keep a running list of titles of novels I want to read in Note on my iPhone (I’ve learned the hard way NOT to keep this list on a piece of paper at home….) and accumulate books throughout the year. A purchase here, a download there. Here are the books I’ve tackled so far this summer:
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Marya by Joyce Carol Oates
- The Killing Floor by Lee Child
- The Fire Witness Lars Keplar
- The Quick by Lauren Owen
- Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (ongoing…by no means anywhere near to being finished)
- The People in Trees by Hanya Yagagihara
Readers (me) are always looking for book suggestions so PEASE share your summer reading list!
Ink And Spine 