Although most people assume that summer reading is the light fluffy kind of reading you can easily do at the beach, because I'm a knitter, it is often when I dive into big meaty books that need a lot more attention.
See, I have little air conditioning in my house, and the room that DOES have AC has no television. I have little desire to knit in a room with no air conditioning, and without the television for background company, knitting just usually isn't enough to hold my attention. So, I take advantage of the summer months to read those books that I just can't get through when my only reading time is the fifteen minutes before I turn out my light at bedtime.
This summer, my thick book of choice is Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, and I'm quite enjoying it. It's been a little harder to get through it than I was hoping - mostly because I'm having trouble still keeping all the different rivals straight in my head.
I've also been taking advantage of the slightly easier pace of summer scheduling with my daughter, and using some of the downtime to read The Hobbit aloud to her in the evenings. She's loving it, and I'm enjoying re-visiting a favorite story of my own with her. Last night we left the Bilbo and the dwarves still deep in the forest, and we're hoping that it all ends up with everyone okay.
We head off for vacation at the end of the month, and that's when I'll be looking for the potato chip books. My taste runs to mysteries and historical fiction. Anyone have any suggestions?
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