The Sunday Salon In Addition To Packing A Purse Of Books For Vacation...

                                         
Welcome summer! Welcome to The Lord's Day Salon!  And Welcome Back to ! It's been a few months since I've peeked my caput out of the pages of the books I've been reading, but my wintertime hibernation is over! This calendar week I am going on vacation... destination is Myrtle Beach together with I conduct hold a pocketbook of books coming alongside me! What's inwards my bag?... Beach Reads! Let's conduct hold a expression at three...

Here's the start mass that caught my oculus together with injure upward inwards the mass bag... Isn't summertime the perfect fourth dimension for a picayune romance?

The Map That Leads to You yesteryear J.P. Monniger's... 

Two strangers conduct hold the route less traveled...

Heather Mulgrew’s footing is already mapped out: she is going to move abroad alongside her friends subsequently college, come upward dorsum to a cracking career inwards September, together with caput into a life where non much is left to chance. But that was earlier an encounter on an overnight prepare introduces her to Jack, a passionate adventurer who changes the course of report of her journeying together with her life.

Throwing Heather's careful itinerary to the wind, they follow Jack's grandfather's mag through post-World War II era Europe: Vienna, Budapest, Turkey―exotic places that serve solely to enhance their feelings. As September looms, Jack urges Heather to remain alongside him, to proceed traveling, to give inwards to the romance of their experience; Heather convinces him to supply to the United States.

Jack has a hush-hush that could alter everything. And Heather’s footing is most to go shaken to the core.

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Next mass to arrive inwards the mass pocketbook is one of those "Chick" books. And I but love where the floor takes identify (Cape Cod) inwards together with I similar the family dynamics involved (Sisters)... this truly is to a greater extent than of what I intend of equally a beach read...

The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand... 

Identical twin sisters who couldn't expression to a greater extent than alike...or alive to a greater extent than differently.

Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't aid what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer together with a shot together with wouldn't go caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She's inherited her father's rundown trouble solid on Martha's Vineyard, but she can't jibe downwards a job, together with her latest romantic disaster has the entire isle talking. 

Two beautiful islands solely xi miles apart.

Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine vino together with has inherited the impeccable sense of savour of her mother, the iconic fashion designer Eleanor Roxie-Frost. She's also inherited her mother's questionable parenting skills--Tabitha's teenage daughter, Ainsley, is inwards total rebellion mode--and a flailing fashion boutique on Nantucket inwards desperate necessitate of a cash infusion. 

One unforgettable summertime that volition alter their lives forever.


After to a greater extent than than a decade apart, Harper together with Tabitha switch islands--and lives--to salve what's left of their splintered family. But the twins chop-chop notice that the secrets, lies, together with gossip they idea they'd outrun tin move betwixt islands but equally easily equally they can. Will Harper together with Tabitha go able to bury the hatchet together with destination their sibling rivalry in ane lawsuit together with for all? Before the concluding beach picnic of the season, at that topographic point volition go plenty old resentments, novel loves, together with cases of false identity to build this the most talked-about summertime that Martha's Vineyard together with Nantucket conduct hold experienced inwards ages.

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Here's some other mass where the identify is special... South Carolina's depression province ( a identify I love to visit).  The concluding mass that made it into the pocketbook for this trip is...

Same Beach, Next Year: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Novel by Dorothea Benton Frank... 

One enchanted summer, 2 couples start a friendship that volition concluding to a greater extent than than 20 years together with transform their lives.

A conduct chances coming together on the Isle of Palms, ane of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings onetime sweethearts, Adam Stanley together with Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza together with Carl, struggle sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam together with Eve acquire caught upward on their lives, their partners arrive at upward a deep friendship—and flirt alongside an unexpected attraction—of their own.

Year subsequently year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, together with Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island’s tip end, where they grow closer alongside each passing day, edifice a friendship that volition withstand fiscal catastrophe, household unit of measurement tragedy, together with devastating heartbreak. The devotion together with love they portion volition assist them weather condition the vagaries of fourth dimension together with enrich their lives equally circumstances change, their children grow upward together with exit home, together with their twilight years approach.


Bursting alongside the intoxicating richness of Dorothea Benton Frank’s honey Lowcountry—the sultry sunshine, cool sea breezes, icy cocktails, together with starry velvet skies—Same Beach, Next Year is a dazzling celebration of the infrangible ability of friendship, the enduring hope of summer, together with the indelible bonds of love.

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One other mass made it into my eReader... 

Beach House for Rent yesteryear Mary Alice Monroe... When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach trouble solid on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it’s a win-win yesteryear whatever standard: Cara’s generating income necessary to proceed hubby Brett’s ecotourism boat trouble concern afloat, together with anxiety-prone Heather, an immature creative somebody who’s been given a committee to pigment birds on postage stamp stamps, has a tranquillity infinite inwards which to go together with tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted.

It isn’t long, however, earlier both women’s idyllic summers are altered irrevocably: the alluring shorebirds—and the human being who rescues them—begin to delineate Heather out of the trounce she’s cultivated toward a footing of adventure, together with perhaps fifty-fifty love; at the same time, Cara’s life reels alongside abrupt tragedy, together with she wishes solely to supply to the beach trouble solid that had in ane lawsuit been her port amidst life’s storms. When Heather refuses to budge from her newfound sanctuary, thus begins the unlikeliest of rooming situations. While they start out equally strangers, equally everything around the women falls apart they acquire that the solely affair they tin truly rely on is each other.

And, similar the migrating shorebirds that come upward to the isle for the summer, these 2 women of different generations must rediscover their unique strengths thus yesteryear summer’s destination they, too, tin conduct hold flying inwards ways they never imagined possible.

Of course the setting is silent South Carolina, there's the beach together with it's sprinkled alongside birding!

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Summer opor-garai reads, to me, necessitate to go lite together with romantic at heart. I don't desire to read most constabulary investigations, murders or kidnappings. I salve those genre's for the residual of the year. Do yous read differently on vacation? Do yous alter your reading habits inwards the summer?

What kinds of books create yous similar to read inwards the summer? 

It's overnice to go dorsum together with to beak most books! And at that topographic point are thus many cracking books to beak most right away too!  Share your summertime plans together with summertime reading! I'll go heading for some rest on a beach inwards South Carolina alongside books inwards hand. I'll also go keeping my oculus out for whatever cracking mass stores on the means together with there! I'll go gone for 2 weeks, but dorsum to on Sunday, July 16th! Come dorsum together with then together with tell hi together with reckon what other cracking books I've flora to share! 

Happy reading... Suzanne