Summer Book Report

How is it halfway through September already? Unbelievable. Unsurprisingly I spent a fair amount of the summer on the road, having adventures and spending time with loved ones. One of my favorite things about traveling is all the uninterrupted reading I get to do waiting at airports and flying on airplanes. I feel like I've hit a good run of books, the ones that are hard to put down, so I thought I'd share!

- Colten Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner (@jeffzentner) and the Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - completely different and both recommended by Knox and Jamie at The Popcast (@thepopcast). The first one is about a rising country star that runs afoul of his fans after ranting against guns and the second is about bringing individuals from history into the present time, and the people assigned ("bridges") to help them settle in modern times. Both have sweet romances and awesome redemptions.

- The People We Keep by Alison Larkin (@allielarkinwrites) is about found families and how at your darkest moments, they come through for you. It has a killer last line: “We have people we get to keep, who won’t ever let us go. And that’s the most important part. That’s what’s true.” 

- The Rom-Comers by Katherine Center (@katherinecenter) is about an aspiring screen writer that is sent to work with her writing hero, a serious writer, who is under contract to write a rom-com script. It is so much deeper than that last sentance sounds. "The stories we need call to us from deep places in our psyches, and we find them with our hearts more than our heads." Indeed. (Her book The Bodyguard is also a fave).

- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (@holly_gramazio) and The Humans by Matt Haig (@mattzhaig). Both fun twists on how a change in your today makes your future totally different. Matt Haig had me hooked when he described dogs as a "hairy domestic deity" which is funnier after receiving a 4 figure vet bill (maybe - ha). It occurs to me now that these two, along with The Ministry of Time, would make a fun trifecta of alternate timelines to dip your toe into.

ENJOY!