book blogger hop

Favorite Summer Beach Book

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here!

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is: July is the month for reading by the pool or on the beach. What’s your favorite summer beach book, and why is it suitable for a sunny day?

I’m not a seasonal reader, to be honest, and don’t think of books in terms of being a beach read or anything similar. So my pick of a book for reading at the beach would be basically whatever I was currently reading when I head for the beach – it could be a chick lit, it could be a horror, a sci-fi, or a European History textbook. I’ve been known to take my study materials and notebook and sit and read in the park, just as much as I have any other fiction book.

What makes it suitable for a sunny day is that it’s a book I’m reading in the sun. g

And heading for the beach with a book is something I’m hoping will happen much more with the amount of time I’m spending down in the South West. I’m not quite back to the beach I grew up reading on, but I’m not far away at all which is so awesome

top ten tuesday

Books or covers that look/feel like summer

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.

I’m picking one from a few weeks ago that I missed Books or covers that look/feel like summer

Emily Henry – Book Lovers
Holly Martin – Summer at Buttercup Beach
Jaimie Admans – The Wishing Tree Beside the Shore
Mandy Baggot – Desperately Seeking Summer
Ali McNamara – Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay


Christie Barlow – Kitty’s Countryside Dream
Alexandria Bellefleur – Hang The Moon
Talia Hibber – Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Taylor Jenkins Reid – Malibu Rising
Kiley Dunbar – The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday

This might just be the least eclectic collection I’ve ever posted LMAO