Today is the first day of my summer vacation. I am excited that I have my 5 weeks off until we start back up August 1st, but I also feel the end of my summer is very near. I want to have accomplished something and am not sure what yet.
Anyway, I have just begun my summer reading list. It is chosen by me and they are all books I have been wanting to read for a while. The first book I am very excited about because I had read an article in our local newspaper about it about a month ago and the book just came out last week. I hunted for a while in the local bookstores with no success until someone was nice enough to tell me that it hadn't come out yet. So I ordered it from Barnes and Noble and low and behold it arrived on my doorstep yesterday! Perfect timing.
The book is See you in A Hundred Years, by Logan Ward. It is about his wife and 2 year old child. They are frustrated with the pace of life in New York and they decide to sell their apartment and buy an old farm house and land in the mountains of Virginia. This is a true story. They not only buy this property but they decide that they will farm it and live like people did in 1900, without electricity, cars, TV, refridgerator, and washing machine. They get the idea from the PBS shows Frontier House, Colonial House, etc. They decide to do this for a year. So far I am about 50 pages into it and laying in bed last night reading it I was laughing so hard I was crying! It is an easy read and with the kids behaving I should have it done by the weekend.
Also on the list is a trilogy of books by Debbie Macomber. The first is The Shop on Blossom Street. It was also a hard find in the bookstores so I ordered it too and it came in the box with the Ward book yesterday. The second in the series is A Good Yarn, and the third is Back on Blossom Street. They are girl books, about women and their friendships and bits of romance intertwined. I anticipate them being read by the middle of July. Then I have a Nelson DeMille Book, Wild Fire, that I have not read yet and can't right now remember the title but it is his newest one. Kenneth gave it to me for Christmas but I haven't read it yet.
Has anyone read a good book recently that should be on my list? Got a classic suggestion? Let me hear 'em...
3 comments:
Have you read the Secret Life of Bees or Traveling Mercies? Those are two of my current favorties. Oh, and I always need my summer dose of A Time To Kill. Yes, I know I'm weird. That is why you like me.
See you in a few weeks.
Haven't read the first two. I will have to check them out. (at the local library)
sue monk kidd (secret life of bees) anne lamont (traveling mercies)
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