Let's Talk About ... Summer Reading

Happy First Day of Summer! 

Summer ... a time to catch up on your reading! But with all this free time to lounge around with a good book, how do you decide which books to dedicate your time and concentration to during all those long, hot, summer afternoons?

Is it the fun, light, girly read about road-trips and "true love"? *sigh!* Or maybe all those classics that you have been putting off reading during the rest of the year because you just couldn't give them the time and energy they deserve? Or, maybe it's that super-duper door-stoper volume that you're FINALLY going to read this summer? OR, maybe you're ridiculously ambitious (like moi) and you have included all of the above in your summer reading plans?

I love reading all three types of these books during the summer and wanted to share with you some of my choices for each "category":

The "fun, light, girly, summer read" ...

The Distance Between Us by Kasie West; How My Summer Went Up in Flames by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski; and This Is What Happy Looks Like 

by Jennifer E. Smith

The "classic that has been on the to-be-read shelf for too long" ...

 Brideshead Revisted by Evely Waugh; Oyx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; 

and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 

And, (drum roll please) ...

"super-duper door-stopper volume that you're FINALLY 
going to read this summer" ...

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and/or East of Eden by John Steinbeck 

You can check-out my entire "Summer Reading List" here. I KNOW! It's a tad overly ambitious. I am well aware that I will probably only skim the surface of this list, but sometimes making the list is half (if not all) the fun. Right? ... maybe?

Let me know if you feel like you read some different types of books in the summer, or how would you categorise the books on your "summer reading list"? What's your favourite type of "summer reading" atmosphere: laying out in the sun, or curled up inside during those summer thunderstorms? AND, what is on your summer reading list???

Happy Summer Reading!