The following is a guest post from momAgendaCOMM blogger Beth Anne Ballance.
I’m a book nerd. I’ve written about my love affair with books on my personal blog, on my Babble.com blog, and maybe even here. When I was 8, the local news interviewed me when they found me curled up on my own in a bookstore. They asked me on camera whether I would rather have a toy or a new book and I said without hesitation, “A book.”
I joined Battle of the Books throughout middle school, where I read roughly 200 books per school year on top of my class reading requirements. I read in college even when I was sick of textbooks. I have four bookcases stacked to the brim with my favorites, including three separate copies of Gone with the Wind – my pride and joy is a first year printing of the classic.
Summer is always the best time to curl up with a book at the pool, at the beach, or on those 100+ degree days where there’s nothing to do but sit inside and sweat it out. Here are my personal picks for the summer – some of them I’ve already read, some are new to me, and some are classics!
The Good
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson
Insurgent, Veronica Roth
Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
The Girly
50 Shades of Grey Trilogy, E. L. James
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier, Ree Drummond
Jemima J, Jane Green
The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella
The Heart
1000 Gifts, Ann Voskamp
Bloom, Kelle Hampton
Heaven is Here, Stephanie Nielson
The Classics
The Thornbirds, Colleen McCullough
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
What’s on your summer reading list?
Beth Anne Ballance is a born and bred Southern Belle. She blogs at The Heir to Blairusing words and pictures to celebrate the challenges of motherhood and the joy of life. Connect with Beth Anne on Twitter and Facebook.