Summer Reading Club: My Ambitious Summer Reading List
It's like the rest of the year, but with a publicly announced ambition. (And warmer. Usually.)
As a child, I loved the summer reading club — and found myself really disappointed to find no adult version. So, I did what most people do: I formed my own club and invited my friends, family and interested future reading buddies. (Let's be honest: if you see someone with a book, especially a book you yourself have read, are they really strangers?)
Now, the summer has unofficially begun with Memorial Day, a solemn occasion to remember why we have the freedom and opportunity to exercise our rights and privileges as Americans. Please, take a moment to remember the true reason for the day.
Review your bookshelves or nightstand to decide what to put on your summer reading list. Here is mind, in no particular order:
- Good Omens
- Divergent
- Insurgent
- Allegiant
- As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- The Light Between Oceans
- Stepmonster
- Map of the Sky
- The Map of Chaos
- The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
- The Descent
- At the Water's Edge
- Everything I Never Told You
- The Glass Sentence
- Arcadia
- Second Life
- Bone Season
- Bristol House
- Carsick
- A God in Ruins
- Wolf Hall
- Arcadia
- Faefever
- The Lowland
- And the Mountains Echoed
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
- NOS4A2
- The Sixth Extinction
- Revival
- Bellman and Black
- Station Eleven
I have no doubt this list will change, probably as soon as I publish it. However, I am going to let it fly.
Join the Summer Reading Club and put yourself in the running for a new book. Read as much as you wish from May 22 through September 27, and if you read the most book, you will win a book of your own.
To join the club, just send me an e-mail or leave a message below. Then, at the end of the summer reading period, send me a message or include your reading list in a blog message. If you read the most, congratulations! If not, you still are a winner because you spent your summer reading.
I've already had a few e-mails from eager readers, and I can't wait to read your list!
To join the club, just send me an e-mail or leave a message below. Then, at the end of the summer reading period, send me a message or include your reading list in a blog message. If you read the most, congratulations! If not, you still are a winner because you spent your summer reading.
I've already had a few e-mails from eager readers, and I can't wait to read your list!
I make sure summer reading is beneficial to my community. As I have done in years past, I will donate $5 per book I read to Main Street Child Development Center, and I will buy three new books for the Fairfax County Public Library from its Amazon Wish List.
Hopefully, reading club members also will find a way to help their communities through their reading, or to help share the love of reading with their communities. It's not a requirement, of course, but it certainly is a worthy effort. It doesn't have to be financial support, either — think of what the community wants and needs. Every reader can determine what is within her or his power to bestow.
Even if you don't join the reading club, I still would love to know: what's on your summer reading list? Tell me!
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