Summer Reads - July 2012

Are you looking for beach reads or something more meaningful? Here’s a short list of what's on my reading shelf, maybe you’ll find some inspiration.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest. A bone shaking, drilling-for-gold, zombie adventure.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed. A story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike through the Pacific Crest Trail. Vivid and powerful. When Oprah re-launched her book club this was her first pick.

River Marked by Patricia Briggs. Mercy Thompson series. She’s a VW mechanic surrounded by supernatural forces of good and evil. Briggs writes paranormal, fantasy, women-kick-butt kind of books.

Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Herman Melville. (Barnes & Noble blurb) 

The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner. At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders heads west with her seventy-year-old grandma, hoping to be hired as a television writer. She finds out what TV Land is really like and gives readers a look at the good, the bad and the ugly in TV land.