How is everyone’s summer reading coming along?  Have you read anything amazing or trashy or trashy/amazing or educational or fun?  Have you checked off all your summer fun activities?

We have done a lot of fun things, but we have less than 2 weeks until school starts and I haven’t taken Jack to Dinosaur Ridge yet.  That was the one thing I told myself I would do this summer.  Time flies!

One thing we learned this summer is that you can grow chia on your chia pet with seeds from costco.   Question asked and answered!  That was some investigative research right there.

I have also read a lot of books.  I procrastinated Barkskins forever, because I didn’t want to start it and have it take the rest of the summer and leave me no time for anything else.  Makes sense to play 2048 on my phone instead, right?  So dumb.  But once I got into it, it was so good and tragic.  The 4 pages of family tree worried me when I noticed them while trying to figure out how many pages I was up against, but after I got a generation or two into the story, they were a necessity.  Recommend.

This is Lucy posing in front of the books and magazines I just unpacked from our camping vacation. I had also planned to read a bunch of books on my kindle app, but that didn’t work out for two reasons.  The first was that moths were flying into my screen when I tried to read at night, and moths are horrible creatures that freak me out to death.  The second reason was that Luke brought only one book and read it on the first day.  So I just let him read e-books for the rest of the trip because I am a mom and I make sacrifices.  My favorite vacation read was Fangirl, and not just because it was recommended to me by my sister at 2:30 am at a bar on an island with a sandy floor while we were sitting on a swing.  What happens in Put in Bay stays, etc, etc unless it’s a book discussion and that must be shared with the world.

I do have a mild sense of panic about two books I still need to read, and I kind of should have had them done by yesterday.  One is the 4th book in the Neapolitan Series, because I borrowed them from a friend who was gone for the summer and I think she’s back. But worse than that, she read Queen of the Night at my recommendation this spring, and I hadn’t read it yet and I owe it to her to also read it.  But I procrastinated and now I am out of time.  She’s back from Sweden!  Maybe if I promise to read it by the end of the year?

What was your favorite summer read?  I think mine are:

Fangirl
Eligible
Barkskins

But here is the complete list of books I have read so far this summer:

Fangirl -Rainbow Rowell
Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner
I Let You Go – Clare Mackintosh
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1) – Pittacus Lore
Eligible (The Austen Project #4) – Curtis Sittenfeld
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) – Sylvain Neuvel
LaRose – Louise Erdrich
Barkskins – Annie Proulx
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3) – Elena Ferrante
The Girls – Emma Cline
Liar & Spy – Rebecca Stead
The Round House – Louise Erdrich
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
Maestra – L.S. Hilton

I’m feeling too lazy to link everything today, but you should be able to get more info from my goodreads account, and that is linked in the sidebar.

Please enjoy another perspective on my chia pet and have a great last few days of summer!