Comments on: Summer Reading: What’s Your Pleasure?

By: elainec

elainec — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:18:04 +0000

Robin,
That is one funny story!!!
I’ve volunteered to both shelve and “weed” at my library in Michigan. It was hard on the knees – all that up and down on the ladder. I loved helping in tech services getting tapes and cd’s ready to go out. Since that took only part of my mind, I also listened to recorded books while I worked. That library had everything you could want. I never bought recorded books the way I do now.
Libraries can be great places to meet people and talk about books. Now, reading each other’s thoughts on a blog such as this one is the main way to hear what others love and hate in the book world. Several of my friends read mysteries, but none read romances.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:55:47 +0000

Love this topic- it brings good memories back. I spent so many hours every day at the library during summer break that they “let” me shelve returned books and straighten the stacks. My parents limited me to 5 books at a time, so I would hide books I wanted to read in the space between the floor and the bottom of the book shelves. Twenty-something years later the library was modernized with new shelving units. I nearly died when my best friend (a librarian) told me they just didn’t understand with they kept finding old books under the old stacks that had been removed from the inventory years ago.

In summer I enjoy lighter books that make me laugh. I usually read more contemporary, rather than historicals. For some reason, it’s also the season I will explore other genres and authors more than another time of year. Guess that stuck from the kids’ summer book clubs.

By: Ann Stephens

Ann Stephens — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:01:52 +0000

For summer I go for light and fluffy. I live in the midwest & angsty, brooding heroes don’t work for me when the temp & the humidity are both in the 90s. Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series is nice then, as is Celeste Bradley. I seem to have less time to myself then, so it’s the time of year when I read the most Harlequins.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:09:09 +0000

During the summer I try to read one of the authors on my “I always meant to read her books ” list. This year it is Lynn Kurland. So far so good. One of the things I am liking about her books is that she doesn’t need to describe in great detail the sex in the book. Thank you Lynn. I may be older but not so old that I need a refresher course every other page like some authors seem to think!

By: Mitzi H.

Mitzi H. — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:41:06 +0000

I love all kinds of books and switch between historical romance to contemps for a change of pace. This summer I’m looking forward to my aunt’s visit. She’s bringing her kindle and is going to let me read it for a couple weeks. I don’t know what I’ll be reading but I’m sure will be good. We both love hot romance novels.

By: elainec

elainec — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:44:41 +0000

This summer I’ll be reading the ten historicals I bought in the last month. I just finished Mary Balogh’s “A Secret Affair” and liked it a lot. It brought out lots of feelings and emotions. I cried during many passages.
I love reading hardcovers, so as soon as it came (I pre-ordered it back in January), I dropped everything else to read it.
I also bought five mystery hardcovers by Elizabeth Peters, Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George, and and Laurie R. King (2). We have a pool, but I never take books into it. They might get wet!!!
Right now I’m nearly through Gwyn Cready’s “Flirting with Forever”. Her time travels are so delightful. I find myself laughing out loud. Her work is different and creative and wonderful.
I guess I just love reading romantic fantasy. Whether I laugh or cry, I’m transported to lives outside mine and times beyond my own. It’s a wild ride sometimes.

By: Blythe

Blythe — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:37:41 +0000

What a fun topic. When I was growing up, my absolute favorite thing about summer was that I could read all day.

Like others, I don’t change what I read much during the summer. But I do have books I associate strongly with vacation. I too read Gone with the Wind during the summer. I also read Laura Kinsale’s The Shadow and the Star at a beach house in San Clemente. It doesn’t sound like your typical beach read, but it was perfect. Elizabeth George’s books seem to come out in the summertime too, and those are must reads for me (the new one is on my nightstand right now, waiting for the right moment).

By: JMBaja

JMBaja — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:18:29 +0000

I tend more towards books with humor in the summer, especially during vacation or holiday time. I want my reading to be light and to make me smile or laugh when I’m on vacation. I have plenty of stress when I’m working, and one of the best ways to relieve stress is to laugh.

By: Elizabeth Rolls

Elizabeth Rolls — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:48:50 +0000

Summer has always been the time I’ve set aside to read things that require large chunks of time. Possibly this is a habit from my school days when one would read the following year’s set texts for English. Then at university pleasure reading time during term was limited because of all the stuff I had to read for lectures. So again, summer was for big reads. It was the same when I was teaching. I had time for longer reads during holidays. It’s the same now. The boys are out of school so I’m not writing much and I still take the time to read longer books, or books that otherwise require extended concentration. It might be Dickens or a Bronte or Greek tragedy. It might also be a total re-read of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Also, we often spend time with my sister at her beach house in the summer and while there I read her books. I’ve been doing this for years and yet I STILL pack a bag of books for the trip. You’d think I’d learn. She’s coming over in a couple of weeks and I still have a book of hers to read from last summer; The Flanders Panel, by Arturo Perez-Reverte. She gave it to our father years ago, and she’s wondering what he made of all the sex!

By: Ellen AAR

Ellen AAR — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:15:33 +0000

My reading is the pretty much the same all year along except for winter, when I read Christmas romances. I’ve just finished my vacation and I read Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Oddly, I never took part in summer reading programs at the library, although I read a lot. I got my library card when I was 6.