Summer Reads

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The weather here in northeast Indiana could not be better! Cool mornings, beautiful days, calm evenings, refreshing breezes...

My mind cries out for activity.  My body, hampered by a severe case of poison ivy, balks.  So I've turned to reading.

My favorite authors (Binchy, Trollope, Trigiani, Mayle, etc.)  can't churn 'em out fast enough for me, so I googled to find writers who write in similar veins.

In the Peter Mayle vein, I discovered the two pictured here and finished another, The Reluctant Tuscan:  How I Discovered My Inner Italian, by Phil Doran.  All have been highly entertaining and have helped get my mind off my itching body as I "traveled" to Portugal, Italy and France.

For more serious reading, we've  purchased our own copy of Radical, by David Platt. I'll be reading it after (or maybe alongside of) The Paris Wife by Paul McLain, which is about the love affair between Ernest Hemingway  and his wife, Hadley.

What are YOU reading this summer? 

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, 

for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

(unknown)