in which there will be summer-ish postings this month
Summertime
Sum Sum
Summertime...
Suuuu...
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time!
Some summertime reading plans before things cool down...
stay tuned: more featured books will be listed here as posts go up
Currently on the beach towel with...
by Ali Smith
Literary, England | Published: 2020 | Goodreads
by Edith Wharton
Classic, Romance, Massachusetts Berkshires | Published: 1993 (first 1917) | Goodreads
Books and Laundry:
Summer by Ali Smith
Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Rampage
Books and Bus:
Summer by Edith Wharton
Books and Puzzles:
Red Sky Over Hawaii by Sara Ackerman
The Last Resort by Marissa Stapley
Books and Ice Cream:
Postscript Murders by Emily Griffiths
SUMMER SUN
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
SUMMER JOBS
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love With the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
SUMMER VACATION
The Vacation by T.M. Logan
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Film: In Another Country directed by Sang-soo Hong
SUMMER ISLANDS
Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly
Red Island House by Andrea Lee
An Island by Karen Jennings
Island Queen
FILM: Fantasy Island directed by Jeff Wadlow
TV series: Fantasy Island season one (1977)
TV series: Fantasy Island (2021)
MORE SUMMER ISLANDS
Popisho by Leone Ross
Celestia by Manuele Fior
Emperors of Eight Islands by Lian Hearn
SUMMER POOLS
You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry (UK version of People We Meet on Vacation)
Wait For It by Jean McKinlay
Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
FILM: La Piscine
MORE SUMMER POOLS
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
The Union of Synchronized Swimmers: A Novella by Cristina Sandu
FILM: The Swimsuit Issue
SUMMER POOLS IN CALIFORNIA
Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson
Kept Animals by Kate Milliken
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
SUMMER PARTIES
Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil
The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
SUMMER ROMANCE
Bombshell by Sarah MacLean
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
SUMMER WITH JANE
Sun-Kissed: Effusions of Summer edited by Christina Boyd
The Jane Austen Journal, Persuasions, volume 42, 2020
SUMMER SURF
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
FILM: Endless Summer
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
FILM: Gidget
FILM: Gidget Goes Hawaiian
SUMMER GETAWAYS
Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland
The Last Resort by Marissa Stapley
FILM: Old
SUMMER in FRENCH RIVIERA
The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
Maigret on the Riviera by Georges Simenon
The Riviera House by Natasha Lester
FILM: To Catch A Thief
SUMMER TEA
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles by Alexander McCall Smith
Tea & Treachery by Vicki Delany
The Seafront Tearoom by Vanessa Greene
FILM: Tea with the Dames
SUMMER'S END
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
At Summer's End by Courtney Ellis
After the Sun by Jonas Eika translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
* image source: Beach from Breathe magazine
* Summertime lyrics from Summertime Summertime by The Jamies
