Summer Reading

Growing up, my mother was and still is, a reading evangelist.  With a degree in English literature and a love of books, we, her children, didn’t stand a chance.

While my friends feasted on Saturday morning cartoons, we read books.  If we announced we were bored, we were told to, “Get a book.”  When we were little, we didn’t have a lot of toys, but man did we have books.  Our shelves were crammed full of Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Laura Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series.

It is little wonder that I choose reading over television.  A good story will leave me sleep deprived and bleary-eyed for days.  Always on the look-out for a well written novel, I asked the Lunars, my fellow book club members, to pick their favourite summer reads.  After much debate, they came up with the following list:

Note:  This is a summer list; some of the books are a little lighter in content.  They can be picked up,  put down and interrupted.  They all received a 4 star rating out of a possible 5 on Amazon.com.

Summer Reading List

• East of Eden by John Stienbeck

• Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens

• Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (my personal favourite)

• The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Here’s to a summer filled with great books and bleary-eyes.

Cheers,

Julie       

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