During these dog days of packing, working, moving, and chaos, the Lord has provided many rays of sunshine. Time spent celebrating a hoped for engagement, evenings with dear girl friends, catching an episode of Glee with my honey, planning our future apartment, cuddling my dog, and other daily delights are food for the soul.
We are facing a summer of travel interspersed with days of rest. I am excited for the freedom after a busy and full semester. I will only have one grad school class so time for fun reading will be abundant. Here is my summer reading list:
The Help
A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
-Goodreads.com
Day After Night
Anita Diamant's story of four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, who find friendship, love, and salvation in a post-war British camp in Palestine.
-Goodreads.com
March
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man"
-Sue Monk Kidd, Goodreads.com
People of the Book
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love.
-Goodreads.com
The Life of Pi
In a wonderful display of storytelling verve, Martel takes a distinctly unpromising premise--a "story that will make you believe in God" about a boy trapped on a lifeboat with an enormous tiger--and pulls it off with complete and winning confidence.
-Goodreads.com
The Great Gatsby
Considered Fitzgerald's best work, The Great Gatsby is a mystical, timeless story of integrity and cruelty, vision and despair.
-Goodreads.com
Of Mice and Men
I have never read this one and several people have recommended it lately, so it's on the list.
If I happen to get through these exciting titles, here is my back up list:
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Micheal Chabon
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
I just ordered them all!
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