Friday, June 1, 2018

Summer Reading Plans

The time has come to think about summer reading and, as usual, I have big plans that will likely never come to fruition. Still, the joy is in the planning, right?


First, I really want to pair a reading of the recent Henry David Thoreau: A Life (Laura Dassow Walls) with a reread of Walden (which I LOATHED in high school but have a feeling I will appreciate much more now) and a first time through The Fledgling by Jane Langton. At 600+ pages, the biography could take most of the summer!


Then I want to reread Three Men in a Boat and first read Three Men on the Bummel for the Back to the Classics Challenge, paired with a reread of To Say Nothing of the Dog. This could very well also lead to a reread of Connie Willis' entire time travel series -- and that would take the rest of the summer!


Not to mention the summer reading shelf I created from my TBR ... Oh! And I also want to keep going with my Amelia Peabody rereads. I did the first one recently on audiobook and it was a lot of fun! Hopefully we don't have the intense, smoky wildfires up here in the Pacific Northwest that we had last year and I'll be able to sit outside with a book as often as I want.

What books are you planning on reading this summer?

Listing and sharing,
K

4 comments:

  1. Perfect! I too have been wanting to re-read To Say Nothing of the Dog, ever since I re-read Doomsday Book a while back. I lost my copy somewhere so I have to remember to put it on hold at the library...

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    1. It was actually your Doomsday Book reread that has put me in the mood to reread the whole set of books. They are just SO well written!

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  2. My summer list is still growing, and what I want to read first keeps changing. (Like now I kind of want to read that Thoreau biography.) :D

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    1. Haha! There are always more books, aren't there? I was thinking about adding to this post even after I wrote it. :)

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