Summer Reading List
I can tell you love me SO much. Me AND my questionable maturity! Can you blame me for making fun of you when you read NON-stop the moment you get home????!? JK, love you!I’ve been flying through books lately, much to the chagrin of my boyfriend who’s exact words last night were, “If you love your books so much why don’t you marry them?” So mature, that one.
I just finished Sea of Tranquility by Paul Russell and I must say that it has earned a spot on my favorite books shelf. Russell’s tale of the disintegration of the perfect American family over the course of decades is one that I will read and reread time and again.
Currently I am in the middle of three books - Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, A Year in the World by Frances Mayes (author of Under the Tuscan Sun), and Harvests of Joy by Robert Mondavi. Lee’s book is excellent so far, as is Mayes’s account of five years of almost nonstop world travel (condensed into one year - four seasons - for book purposes). Mondavi’s autobiographical account of how he came to found one of the most successful American vineyards of all time is fairly interesting, if a bit heavy on the technical side of winemaking at times. Burgeoning wine nerd that I am, however, it is interesting to get inside the head of one of the most famous (and most controversial) fathers of the American wine movement.
So that is what I’m reading this summer - how about you?
