Books for your Summer Reading List 2017
Summer is Beach Reading Season
Tonight a little post to help you find books for your summer reading list. The focus for the list is books that aren’t too deep, about interesting topics and not too long, basically brain candy reading for the hot, sweet days of summer, while you’re relaxing on vacation, enjoy.
Nothing brings you more happiness than reading books on the beach in the summer.
Summer Reading Books
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
Borne – Rachel, a postapocalyptic scavenger who finds the improbably sentient and mutable creature—who “smelled of beach reeds on lazy summer afternoons and, beneath the sea salt, of passionflowers”—while picking through the fur of the gargantuan flying bear that terrorizes her devastated city. And then things start to get weird.
Full Wolf Moon – By one of the authors of Relic, a little paranormal mystery book featuring the character paranormal investigator Jeremy Logan. Add to that a cool location, Werewolves in the Adirondacks.
Books on Happiness
Appalachian Trail Happiness – This book comes in at less than a hundred pages and is a nice light book about hiking the Appalachian Trail. As one of the comments say on Amazon, this book is like a great conversation with the author telling stories about the trail.
Find happiness walking on the Appalachian Trail
Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South – A book that tells stories about the culture of the south through food. Stories including dinners cooked for civil rights leaders to the fast booms in the south, brain candy and it will make you hungry.
Books about Love
How to Fall in Love with Anyone – Mandy Len Catron provided everyone with their new favorite date-night opener in her viral New York Times piece “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This.” Is it possible to create the conditions for romance armed only with 36 questions devised by a psychologist? (Try it, and let us know.) Now, Catron expands upon the themes of love and relationships in a collection of essays destined to provide more conversational fodder.
Sex and Rage – Originally published in 1979, Sex and Rage paints with Babitz’s signature hues: Los Angeles sky blue, jacaranda mauve, and cocktail pink. Its protagonist, the aimless Jacaranda, shares with her creator a bicoastal range, languid ambition, and a talent for passion.
Uplifting Books
Waking Land
The Waking Land – Bates’s debut is the first book in a planned trilogy about a young woman who can call on the magical powers of nature. Bates has built an extraordinary world with terrific characters in this unique new fantasy.
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, A Student and a Life-changing Relationship – In 2004, Michelle Kuo moved to the Mississippi Delta to teach at a school in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. There she met a young man named Patrick. Patrick was thoughtful, motivated, and loved learning — he was only hampered by opportunity. Kuo worked with him until she moved away to attend law school. After learning that Patrick was in jail for murder, she moved back to work with him again. This is a story about the power of books; the issues of race, justice, and poverty; and the endurance of hope and connection. Kuo’s book is an honest and touching memoir.
The Ministry of Happiness 