Read!
There’s a rather large sticker on the back of my car that simply says READ. Next to cooking, I’d have to say that reading is a real passion of mine. I can still remember titles I read back in grade school. Summer is a great time to read. Whether you’re lying on a beach somewhere, lounging in the hammock out back or simply trying to beat the heat in the air, a good book can take you on an adventure unlike anything else. All four of us in my house are voracious readers and the house looks like it. There are books in nearly every room of this place, shelves and shelves of books with titles as varied as you can get. There are a few that I re-visit on a regular basis, Out of Africa, Lost Horizon, Rebecca, just to name a few. I like the classics but love new literature as well. Here are 4 of my more recent reads and one’s I have especially enjoyed.
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brian, is set in Vietnam, The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, is set in England just after WWII, The Good Good Pig, by Sy Montgomery, is set in New England and is a true story and the surprise of my summer reading is The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti, the only way to describe it is Oliver Twist meets Ichabod Crane. No matter what your taste, you shouldn’t let the summer pass without having read one good book.
