Summer reading

Beth asks for summer reading recommendations for Smart Bitches Day, which, technically, just ended for me, but it’s still Monday somewhere.

At any rate, despite how it may seem sometimes, I enjoy reccing books. But this topic was hard for me, because when I thought about books that transported me to exotic places, my beloved A Song of Ice and Fire came readily to mind. Unfortunately, that series doesn't imbue the reader with a rolicking sense of adventure, at least, it didn't for me. I was transported to an exotic place, where little kids get thrown off tower walls, main characters die brutally, and everyone's amoral. Plus, I didn't actually read the books in summer.

The past two summers I've spent a lot of time randomly staying with my parents because of preparations to move somewhere. Last summer, I read most of the Julia Quinn Bridgerton books, until I realized that her books had quit being funny and became angstful, which wasn't what I wanted to read at all.

The summer before that I read all of Tad Williams's Otherland books, which are wonderful and rivetting, although not nearly as dark and twisted as A Song of Ice and Fire.

This summer… well, who knows? I guess we'll have to see. What are your favorite vacation-y books, O gentle readers?