Get Your Book On - Summer Reading

Memorial Day weekend has come and gone and summer is officially underway.  Well, not according to the calendar, but according to everyone in the United States.  The weekend down the Cape was awesome, so much fun and more pics and recipes to follow from that.  In the meantime though, I thought this was a perfect time to get out some recommendations for summer reading.  I was at the beach three days last weekend and it reminded me how much I love sitting by the ocean totally consumed with a great book.

Summer Reading - Lite
If you want a true "beach read" then these books have to make it to your list, I love, love, love them all:

- Something Borrowed (read years ago and still one of my faves, movie is out now with Kate Hudson)
- Something Blue (don't read one without the other, it's a continuation of the same story)
- Blue Bistro - will make you want to open a restaurant on Nantucket
- The Godmother - all the single ladies, all the single ladies
- The Help
- South of Broad - mix of mystery, romance and scandal
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - combination of The Help and Secret Life of Bees
- American Wife - you can get lost in the story of her life, it's hard not to feel attached to this character

Old School Summer Reading
If you want a more challenging book or a more serious topic, dig into these:


- The Last Child - I could not put it down
- The Glass Castle - if it wasn't true, you wouldn't believe it
- The Hunger Games - don't let the disturbing idea of this amazing book deter you
- Memoirs of a Geisha - one of my ALL time favorites
- The Kite Runner - wrote both this and Thousand Splendid Suns
- Thousand Splendid Suns - seriously, he can't write a 3rd book fast enough, I could read these 2 books over and over again for the rest of my life and be happy
- The Other Boleyn Girl -  hard to get into at first, then before you know it, you're sucked in

Check out these books at Amazon or Borders.  Enjoy!

Love, Lizzie