Time for Summer Reading!
Even if it’s not beach weather where you live, any time is a good time for summer reading. Here are some of my recommendations! Plus, I’ve posted more on my blog.
Fiction
You won’t be disappointed
Off we go again to Melbourne with master storyteller Sally Hepworth, and hooray! More dysfunctional family, more crime, more lovely views. In a nutshell, middle-aged successful surgeon Stephen is marrying again, though he’s not quite divorced from his wife, who suffers from dementia. His bride Heather is…young. Younger than his daughters, so we immediat…
Women I’d love to meet for a glass of wine
(Im)perfectly Happy by Sharina Harris is such a great read! Four college friends reunite ten years after graduation to remind each other of their dreams of the future. Now that they’ve had time to become fully-fledged adults, they have to assess if those goals are still viable, if they’ve made excuses for why they haven’t achieved them, and how they wan…
Romance
A small town, first love and the one who got away.
A small town, first love and the one who got away. What more could you want than this sweet, funny romance by Kerry Winfrey? Her dialogue is sparkling, the town is filled with believable, wonderful people, and the kid is ridiculously adorable. Sandy and Hank have spent fifteen years apart while he pursued his music dreams and she foundered, a little los…
So good it’s hard to believe this is a debut novel
Who doesn’t love an arranged marriage trope? Who hasn’t watched Indian Matchmaker, Jewish Matchmaker or Love is Blind? I’m a complete sucker for this type of story, and Noreen Mughees delivers in The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed. Sana, from a traditional Indian family, is feeling the pressure as her mother tries to marry her off. There’s a slight compl…
Nonfiction
…it’s not at all about wealth and balls and glamour
I was never very interested in England’s royal family until the British press started their hate campaign against Meghan Markle. But I remember Harry as a stunned 12-year-old, walking behind his mother’s casket, having to shake hands with strangers just hours after he found out his mother was dead. The press gave no quarter to the boys, following them, …
A quick read, totally worth it.
Honest, heartfelt and raw essays about some of the most difficult aspects of life—alcoholic parent, infertility, loss. And yet, it has moments of joy and laughter, too. Notes to Self by Emilie Pine is a quick read, totally worth it.
I’ve posted more of my recommendations here!