Oh, Sunday, here you are again. While I’m happy to be here at my computer, drinking tea and eating cherries (well worth the $9 I spent on them at the grocery store yesterday), I’d rather be where I was last Sunday about this time — sitting on a beach chair with a book and a view of the lake.
I spent last weekend at my family’s cabin for the fourth of July, and it was awesome. I finished three books over the four-day trip, went swimming, ate delicious food, and got to spend an entire afternoon cruising around the lake on a boat, alcoholic beverage in hand.
Ahh, picking vacation reads. Is there anything more awesome than that?
I’m heading up to my family’s cabin to celebrate the 4th of July this weekend, and so of course I spent a long time deciding what books to bring. I haven’t packed clothes or food or other necessities, but I have my books and booze already set aside. Responsibility, thy name is Kim.
I’m leaving this Friday to spend a long weekend at my family’s cabin in northern Wisconsin, and I’ve been thinking all month about the books I plan to take with me. I’m not alone — June seems to be the month where everyone starts putting together their big summer books sections, and I’ve had a lot of fun reading them.
It seems like this year there’s been an emphasis on blogs and on major book websites about the idea of “smart beach reads” or “books you don’t have to be embarrassed by” while you’re out sitting by the lake. Take, for example, this article on mind-bending science fiction that NPR posted a couple weeks ago.
So this week is midterms and things are a little crazier than I anticipated. I need the week off from the blog to get school done and get my brain back. I’ll see you all on the other side of my projects!
P.S. If you get a chance, leave any questions you have about Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni and I’ll answer them in my review when I get back from my self-imposed bloggy break.
I have three different set of to-be-read books in my apartment — the fiction shelf, the nonfiction bookcase, and the “books I want to read right now” pile sitting on a chair by my desk. Every time I sit down to blog or do homework or just fiddle away time on Facebook, the growing pile [...]
