Summer Reading (circa 2013)

Keeping with the theme of the last blog post, let's discuss what I want to read this summer. There's a lot that I want to read. I doubt I'll get to half this list.  Still it's always nice to make a list in hope.


I'll check back in at the end of each month (Summer) to tell you what I have or, more likely, have not read.

Summer 2013 - To Read  
Entwined With You/Sylvia Day 
Faking It/Cora Carmack
The Woman Upstairs/Claire Messud 
Gorgeous/Paul Rudnick
The Interestings/Meg Wolitzer 
Reconstructing Amelia/Kimberly McCreight 
The Returned/Jason Mott 
The Engagements/J. Courtney Sullivan 
Night Film/Marisha Pessl 
Forever Too Far/Abbi Glines 
The Game Changer/J. Sterling  
Facade/Nyrae Dawn 

I have a few of the above already sitting on my Kindle gathering cyberdust.  There are three or four that are not being released until later this month and/or August. And, DUDE, "Entwined With You" and "Faking It" are being released in a scant two hours-ish from now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

To say I'm excited is understating it. 

 Anyway, I reserve the right to add to this list as summer progresses. Also, like four of these titles came from Entertainment Weekly's summer reads recommendations because I have never been disappointed in any book EW has recommended. Also, I'm still working on reading Kristen Ashley's back catalog since I recently discovered how awesome her romances are, but there are way too many (she's prolific as hell) to list here.

Okay. Off to kill two more hours until I can get a Gideon Cross fix. 




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