School’s out for summer!
It’s time for lazy days on the beach, long days by the pool, late nights by the campfire. Yah right, maybe in a perfect world. Life with kids can look a little different. Summer with kids in tow sometimes looks more like a hurried drink with a girlfriend on a humid patio, hoping your sundress isn’t sticking to your thighs. Supervising gaggles of teens by that pool and waiting for them to leave so you can get your turn for the float. Trying to stay up late enough to justify a roaring campfire. It’s not all working on your tan, floating in the lake, quiet calm perfection; but it’s a crazy kind of chaos I wouldn’t change for anything. No matter how jam packed your summer might be, one thing you can make time for is a good summer read. Here are my five picks for books you won’t be able to put down:
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
From Amazon: “With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that’s bigger than it first appears.”
The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews
From Amazon: “Riley Griggs has a season of good times with friends and family ahead of her on Belle Isle when things take anunexpected turn. While waiting for her husband to arrive on the ferry one Friday afternoon, Riley is confronted by a process server who thrusts papers into her hand. And her husband is nowhere to be found.
Girls On Fire by Robin Wasserman
From Amazon: On Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he’s found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand—a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.
The Apartment: A Novel by Danielle Steel
From Amazon: “They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Unexpected opportunities alter the course of each of their lives, and as they meet the challenges, they face the bittersweet reality that in time, they will inevitably move away from the place where their dreams began.”
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
From Amazon: Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who was brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.
All five of these reads are solidly on my list. Now if only I can find the time to read them!
What’s on your must read list this summer?
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll sounds like an interesting book for Winter reading!