4 Books on my Summer TBR List
There are few things nicer than perching up on the beach with a book and a beverage, settling in for a long relaxing afternoon of reading. I hoard good books in an epic TBR pile all year long to ensure no reading ruts in the third quarter. Here’s a few things I’m looking forward to reading this summer. (Ooh and happily, they’re not all brand spanking new, so I’ve got my fingers crossed their readily available at the library!)
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
A sister swap with more sinister implications than The Parent Trap
Iris and Summer are identical twins, so similar, nobody can tell them apart, including Summer’s husband. But looks aside, their lives are completely different. Summer has everything Iris wishes she had, and when Summer mysteriously disappears, Iris sees her chance to step into her sister’s charmed life.
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
A coming of age story heavy on the avocado colored appliances and Gerry Ford references.
A slice-of-life read about Mary Jane, a 14-year-old girl growing up in In 1970’s Baltimore. Mary Jane lives a rigid, buttoned up lifestyle with her parents, so she’s in for a culture shock when she takes a summer job nannying for a local doctor’s family who turns out to be not only loose and liberal, but also secretly treating a famous rockstar who moves in with the family to dry out.
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Sounds weird, but I already must know how it ends
Greta transcribes therapy sessions for an amateur sex therapist for a living. Things get weird when she recognizes the voice of a client out in public.
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
If you loved Anderson Cooper’s book about the Vanderbilts
Anderson Cooper digs into another American legacy family, his own ancestors’ social nemesis, the Astors. Finding their fortune in fur trading and Manhattan real estate, we follow the story of how a family managed to build unimaginable wealth, and somehow lose it all.
Cooper’s writing reads like a salacious novel, but is startlingly non-fiction.