So, summertime is just around the corner and we all need those juicy book suggestions to keep our minds off the fact that this year, summer vacations are completely cancelled.
Has you all may feel a little under the weather due to this situation, we want to share with you our 5 picks to read this summer, because we all need some light reading and to travel a little bit through books has we can't/shouldn't travel anywhere this year.
Here they are!
by Emma Straub
Chick Lit, Adult Fiction
When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence?
Astrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most.
Why we want to read it: We love ourselves a bit of a family drama but with very strong and contemporary issues being represented in novels and this is one of those summer hits that we are looking forward to read almost as any other person out there.
by Emily Henry
Contemporary Romance, Humor
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They're polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
Why we want to read it: Give us all the romances out there, do it!!! We don't have to say much. Opposites attract and honestly that is just what we need to want to read this one.
by Liv Purvis
Nonfiction, Self-help
Welcome to the Insecure Girls' Club!
At some point or another, we all feel insecure. Whether it's about our body image, friendships, workplace politics or comparison more generally, it's something we all have in common. But we don't have to let it rule our lives.
A reassuring hug when you're having a bad day, The Insecure Girl's Handbook is for anyone who wants to manage their anxiety better, stop imposter syndrome in its tracks or halt those unwelcome waves of self-doubt.
Why we want to read it: A non-fiction book? Yes, please. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but if this book is anything as Liv Purvis (anyone following her blogging for years like some of us?) we will be in for quite a ride! We are all insecure girls in one moment or another.
by Penny Reid
New adult, Romance
What do you do when you discover that your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian Lit professor?
You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!
Why we want to read it: Professor-student romances are not a new trend (side eye on Gabriel's Inferno) but we kind dig this sort of theme. It's not a common, consensual choice (but consent in everything else is a YES) but we had to pick this one.
by Mandy Baggot
Fiction, Chick lit
Tess Parks has made up her mind: love isn’t for her.
When it comes to dating she has one rule: after six weeks with a guy, she ends it. So when her heartbroken best friend invites her for a girly getaway in Corfu, Tess is sure she can stick to their pact to stay single for the summer.
But then she meets the gorgeous restaurateur Andras...
To keep his overbearing mother off his back, Tess agrees to pretend to date him. But as the two spend time together, Tess begins to realise that this fake relationship is starting to feel like the best one she’s ever had…
Why we want to read it: Not all of us have found their happy every after, not even their pretend-to-be-prince-charming so we kinda love this sort of book that makes up hang on to hope. Oh, damn it, even the ones of us who are well settled and in love kinda love this hopeless romance stories.
And that's it! We can't wait to grab our towels and books and go straight to our balcony, backyards or even our reading nooks by the window and enjoy some fun moments with some of these titles during the hot days!
Enjoy!!
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