It's Beach Read Season
What y'all are reading.
Given it’s 4th of July week and all, I thought I would do a little reading recap. I won’t pretend I’m the world’s most avid reader, but I’ve improved in recent years, and that’s fully thanks to having a library card. (Three cheers for library funding!!!) I’m deep in my reading groove lately, partially because there isn’t as much on TV right now, and partially because three of my book requests came in at once.
I’m currently juggling This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune (gets you right from the jump) and Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes (blame the current economic climate but her writing doesn’t draw me in like it once did…). After those, I’ll start The Friday Afternoon Club, Griffin Dunne’s name-droppy family memoir.
And now, I have a great list for once I’ve burned through my current reads. Thank you to everyone who shared your recommendations! Those, below.
“Fire Keepers Daughter. Such an interesting and emotional murder mystery—but also such a great look into the life of an indigenous teenager in Michigan today! 5 stars!” —Katie Hammond-Tepper
“I am so excited for both the Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Catherine Newman books! They’re both on hold at my library and meet my very specific beach read criteria of written by a woman, contemporary fiction, funny/thoughtprovoking but not depressing or anxiety inducing. Well written and not idiotic.” —Alex Apatoff
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