Susan Wiggs / photo by Susan Doupé
Last week, #1 New York Times best-selling author Susan Wiggs told us about how she loves to pick a special book and save it for “the last book of the summer.” Her new novel, Return to Willow Lake, is one such book—a romantic, big-hearted story of a woman who must return to her childhood home.
Well, summer may officially be winding down, but you can still escape in what Susan is calling her “salute to the books of summer.” And if you’re new to the Lakeshore Chronicles series, of which Return to Willow Lake is book #9? No big deal! In today’s awesome giveaway, you can win the entire series, plus one of Susan’s standalone novels, Lakeside Cottage. That’s 10 books in all.
For one lucky reader, I predict many, many happy hours spent reading about friendship, family and passionate love on the blue waters of Willow Lake, in the Catskills.
Here’s what you’ll win:
TO ENTER: Leave a comment with your answer to this question: This summer, what book did you save for last?
CONTEST DETAILS: One winner will be chosen by random.org from among entries received by 5 pm CST on Friday, September 7. The winner will receive copies of Summer at Willow Lake, The Winter Lodge, Dockside, Snowfall at Willow Lake, Fireside, Lakeshore Christmas, The Summer Hideaway, Marrying Daisy Bellamy, Lakeside Cottage and Return to Willow Lake. Prize must be shipped to a North American address, and Rhode Island residents are not eligible. (Full contest rules here.) Good luck!
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ETA: Congratulations to our winner, Donna! This summer, she saved Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson for last.
Thanks to all who entered! Contest is now closed.
I didn’t save a particular novel for last of the summer. I suppose I should have. Next week I hope to get Extras which is the last book in the Uglies series as well as Divergent which I keep hearing about. I have a friend who shares many of her books with me. Susan Wiggs’ books sound like I would enjoy them! Hope I win~
I’m always reading so this really wasn’t a book that I saved till last but I just picked up Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
HOT FOR FIREMAN by Renee Bernard
OOPS…That’s Jennifer Bernard. It’s too early…
I read a lot of books this summer but waited until last week to read THE INN AT ROSE HARBOR by Debbie Macomber and PORCH LIGHTS by Dorothea Benton Frank.
Does Porch Lights read like a Macomber book?
I don’t know that I ever save a book for “last” because I’m always reading, but, the book that I’ve been holding on to for our first book club meeting of the Fall, and which I will start this week, is SAME KIND OF DIFFERENT AS ME by Ron Hall and Denver Moore.
Since reading books is my passion and this summer provided me with a wonderful selection of enjoyment, I saved The Shoemaker’s Wife for last.
Jess Walter’s “Beautiful Ruins.”
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Inn at Rose Harbor is the one I saved for my last book of summer but of course I can always work in a few more. Sure hope I win this contest as Susan Wiggs is a great author and I would be honored to read her collection!
You will LOVE them!
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
Gold by Chris Cleave
Would like to know what you think of it. In my opinion, Little Bee is the only book written by this author that is absolutely worth reading. Gold was okay; incendiary was terrible.
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. It’s a young adult historical fiction about a young girls family that is sent to Siberia when Russia invaded Lithuania before WW II.
This summer, what book did you save for last? That’s easy: I left “Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey” because I wanted to see it again on Neflix before I started it and I wanted plenty of time to enjoy.
Love English history during the time of Henry VIII. Saved for last
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel.
I saved Mary Alice Monroe’s The Beach House for my last book – I didn’t make it to the beach this summer, so this will be my armchair vacation!
I’ve read my “saved” book already
so I’m reading Murder in Provence now! I would love to win the Lakeshore Chronicles~~awesome giveaway!
So far I am leaving Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres, a memoir, until the last. I’m expecting it to be very intense for me. I’ll definitely need a series like the Lakeshore Chronicles to whisk me away again. Yes I will.
Discovery of Witches
I just finished book two in the series. I hope we don’t have to wait too long for the last in the trilogy. Kind of hard keeping the characters straight. So amazing how the author brings those historic people ,in the second book, to life so that you can really picture them.
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann. I really connected with the cover art and I knew I wanted to be able to save it for my last free week before all the routines start back up.
Summer at Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs, and I loved it. (I just finished reading it a few hours ago)
There is no last read of summer for me. I read continually summer, fall, winter and spring. A day without a book is a lost day for me.
The Book of Lost Fragrances by M.J. Rose.
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – I wanted to end with a classic
I had a summer of classics and saved Kesey’s “Sometimes a Great Notion” till the last week of summer. I am still living inside it.
I can’t save a book. I read it as fast as I get it. The Willow Lake series is one of my favorites. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I spent the summer reading classics and saved Kesey’s “Sometimes a Great Notion” till the last week.
The book I’m reading for the last days of summer is: Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe. It’s her 3rd in the series and it’s wonderful!! Technically we have until 9/22, lets savor every day!! Books are the BEST!!
I will re-read The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. This amazing book is one of my all time favorites.
House Rules by Jodi P. PICK ME
Read Porch Lights by Dorthean Benton Frank last and it was not one of her better books.
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
I read Broken Harbor by Tana French. What a book! I can’t say enough good things about it.
The Invisibles by Stef Penney
I read so many books I don’t leave one for last. Sometimes when I have a pile to read I just close my eyes and pick one and get surprised.
left to read-11/22/63- Stephen King
I’m saving The Rock Hole by Reavis Z. Wortham for last because the setting is the area where I now live and he’s a local author who is now finding national success.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (but I wish I hadn’t – sorry – definitely won’t go down as one of my favorites – so I am trying to sneak another one in today – hate to leave the summer on a sour note).
Was wondering about your reaction to Thousand White Women. Granted it was a disgraceful time in American history and fiction based on someone’s idea of how the aborted plan might have played out. However, the look it gave into the American Indian’s life at that time was very interesting and made some of the historic characters come to life. Why your reaction?
One of my very favorites. I have shared it with many friends and all have liked it.
What an interesting concept, and supposedly it is based on at least a possibility of some truth – and do I think the gov would do what it did – yes.
Another one by same other that is good is The Wild Girl.
This summer I completed a verse-by-verse study of the book of Revelation in the Bible. I am ready for some “lighter” reading. I plan to read The Language of Flowers next.
The Language of Flowers is a fantastic read. Not only is the story good, but I thought it was very interesting what all the flowers mean. I donated a copy to my library in memory of a friend of mine who passed away – with a bookplate with pink carnations (that mean “I will never forget you”).
I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
I’ve got “Gone Girl” ready to go, sitting on my nightstand. Can’t wait to begin it! I would love to read these books, too. Thanks for the contest!
Light Between Oceans was an outstanding book.
I have been reading the Game of Thrones series with my teens. We read the books, watch the television series and discuss them together. I like we can share time together.
The last book I just finished is The Mockingjay, but it certainly isn’t my last book, (God willing—lol) I always have at least one book going, sometimes more!
I’m always reading, so there is no last book of the summer, but the last book I read was Robyn Carr’s Summer Days. I love the Fool’s Gold series.
I spent the entire summer reading all five books in George RR Martin’s Song of Fire and Ice Series twice.
I saved, and am reading now, Nevada Barr’s mystery The Rope. It is almost unputdownable!
The Ghost by Robert Harris.
Fifty Shades of Freed by E.L. James
Gladys Taber’s writings were always inspiration for my mother and I am reading AMBER, a very personal cat. It comforts me and proves once again, you can go home.
I saved “Where’d you go Bernadette” by Maria Semple. As my last read of the summer. Like many others who posted here I read all year round of course but it’s fun to pick up some of those summer releases for the summer to read.
Summer at Willow Lake.
I saved “The Beautiful Mystery” by Louise Penny. It’s #8 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. The characters are so real and so vivid, it’s like going home to visit family.
I have saved Marrying Daisy Bellamy, my wife read it and loved it!
50 SHADES OF GREY
I read non stop so there isn’t really a last book but I did save the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy to finish. Thanks for the awesome prize opportunity.
Carol L
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Creole Belle by James Lee Burke. Great story, beautiful prose, summer in Louisiana
The Witness by Nora Roberts
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – it was hard to put down
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand. It is a great read, as are all of her books.
I saved Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. The Hotel with the Adequate View,loved the description and the humor.
Would you believe The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I have the last two books in the series but wanted to read them in order. I finally found a friend to loan me the first one. What a fascinating character study!
New York: the novel by Edward Rutherfurd – hope to be done by 9/11.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
What an unusual book. I enjoyed it immensely and I usually don’t like any fantasy type books. Hope you enjoy it!
Just finished Sand Castle Girls – awesome. But I’m not saver, I just keep reading.
If you liked that book, you have to read The Gendarme by Mark Mustain. Same historical context – the Armenian genocide.
Excellent book. Did not know anything about that and now am eager to read other books with that backdrop.
I am going to start Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan today!
I am going to be starting the Sullivan’s Island series by Dorothea Benton Frank
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber.
I left The City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare.
I did not ‘save’ a book for the end of the summer, I just keep reading year round! I did curl up with “Divorced, Desparate & Delicious” by Christie Craig over the weekend – loved it. Would like to include these additional books to my library.
I didn’t save any book for last. I usually get one that I really want to read (one?!) and have to read it right away.
I’ll read “Return To Willow Lake” after I win it!
The Devon Monk’s Urban Fantasy series was my guilty pleasure in August. Magic for a Price topped the list as the month came to a close.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I just read Gone Girl and while quite different it was very entertaining.
I saved “Bringing Up the Bodies” by Hilary Mantel for last. Everyone I know who has read it said it was one of the best books they have ever read, so I am looking forward to it.
I am reading The Great Escape by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I like so many authors, that I do not save any books to read last. I enjoy them all and I like to read new authors or those I have not read yet. A good book is like a friend.
My last book that I just finished was: Debbie Macomber’s “The Inn at Rose Harbor”….enjoyed it so much. I have randomly picked up books from my Library’s shelves to read this summer and was delighted!
I have read some of Susan Wiggs’ books, always enjoy a whole series too. Would be so happy to win this contest…thanks for offering this great contest!!
Songs Without Words by Ann Packer.
I guess I saved Home Front by Kristin Hannah for last seeing that what I’m reading at the moment.
I’m reading the Fifty Shades series. Don’t know why it took me so long to read them.l
Patrica Cornwell’s Red Mist was the best of my Summer reading. After her last two, not so good, books of the Kay Scarpetta series I was glad to find that Ms. Cornwell is back on track.
After reading Wax’s “Ten Beach Road” last year, I could hardly wait to read “Ocean Beach.”
I’m not good at waiting…have to read as soon as I get a book. The last books were Madame Tussaud, Gone Girl & The Beach Trees.
I saved “The House I Loved” by Tatiana de Rosnay and what a wonderful story it is.
I didn’t save a certain book since I am always reading. My current book is Birdology by Sy Montgomery. I read books as soon as I can get them from the library.
Saved Phantom by Jo Nesbo for my final summer read.
I don’t have the will power to save any book till last…..if it’s one I’ve been waiting for I have to dig right in! And this summer it was CRIMINAL by Karin Slaughter……Iw as in the middle of another book, mind you, and returned to it after I devoured Criminal.
Last enjoyed The Lucky One.
I’m always reading! Can’t wait to read Kate Morton’s new book!
Room. The topic put me off all this time, but I am loving the book!
Outstanding choice. I was amazed at how well adjusted the little boy was – oops, better not say any more in case you haven’t gotten that far! Just wanted to say it is an excellent book!
State of wonder
The book I’ve left to last is Dustin Thomason’s “12.21″.
Because of the sad passing of Maeve Binchy, I am re-reading her first book, “Light a Penny Candle”. I have them all and am sad that there will be no more books from dear Maeve. Never read Susan Wigg, but you’ve stirred my desire to do so.
SUMMERLAND
I was saving Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants so that I would be ready for the next book in the trilogy.
Susan Wiggs is always a pleasure.
I am saving Gone Girl and Sandcastle Girls for the very last summer reads. I live in Atlanta, so fall arrives late here, and I may not be able to wait. Susan Wiggs’ books sound wonderful – a carryover into fall and winter. Thanks for your magazine (which is now carried by my local library) and for sponsoring these contests.
My good side has In Mackinac Island by Melanie Dobson waiting patiently and my naughty side is finishing Fifty Shades of Grey. I have wanted to read the Lakeshore Chronicles ever since I read Home Before Dark & Just Breathe- great books. Thanks for this wonderful chance to read the series.
I’ve saved Gone Girl for last. When is the last of the summer, anyway?? I don’t officially save books, really – read so voraciously all year round, that it seems odd to save one for the end of a season. But I’ve been hearing about this one all summer and it’s on my bookcase, so guess that’s it!
Louise Penny’s The Beautiful Mystery. It just came out a week ago!
I’m reading The Orchardist right now, but sitting on my desk is Susan Wiggs “Return to Willow Lake” to read next. I haven’t read any books by her yet.
I am waiting on Broken Harbor by Tana French at my local library.
These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf. However, my favorite book I read this summer was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Loved it!!
50 Shades of Grey
Porch Lights…….going to start this book today!
I am currently reading Fifty Shades Freed. I read all the time for pleasure and for learning. I am in the middle of Cedar Cove series and I plan to work on that next. In addition, I am on theHarbor Lights book of Sherryl Woods Chesapeake Shores series. As you can see I am constantly reading and I don’t what book will be my last until I take my last breath.
I don’t ever have a last book. I just finished “Rules of Civility”, am now reading “Girl in a Blue Dress” and look Forward to Brad Thor’s new one, “Black List.” Would love to delve into the Susan Wiggs series!
Porch Lights…….going to start this book today!!!!
The book that I am reading to end Summer is The Next Always by Nora Roberts. I previously read her new book The Witness and throughly enjoyed it. I have some Susan Wiggs books, but my Aunt has borrowed them. I try to keep her in books. This series would be the berries and she would love them!
I’ve been saving a self-help book, Love your body love yourself.
“Never Tell” by Alafair Burke. Didn’t really save it till last, worked out that way due to putting it on hold at my library.
PORCH LIGHTS by Dorothea Benton Frank–love, love, love anything about the lowcountry and she does it best!
The Passage by Justin Cronin. My daughter has been after me to read this for a couple years. The next book is coming out in Nov. I believe, so thought I’d read it. BIG BOOK and very different type of book for me, but it was very interesting and I’m looking forward to his next book in this series.
Superior Dilemma by Matthew Williams set on the shore of Lake Superior. Waiting for the release of Full Moon over Madeline Island by Jay Gilbertson. A great summer read, the third in a series!
Ocean Beach by Wendy Wax. A great followup to Ten Beach Road. She left it open for another book to follow in what I hope is a series…
“The Chaperone” by Laura Moriarty
I just finished Katrina Kittle, Kindness of Strangers. A wonderful author who tackled a difficult subject. I would highly recommend it. I look forward to finding more books by this author.
Gold by Chris Cleave
Just by accident, I read “The Driving Lesons” by Rehder as my last summer book. it was excellent.
My last read of the summer was: Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas.
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
I could never save a book. I read as fast as I can because I am afraid I will miss a wonderful book. So many great authors -they are getting better and better. Reading is almost an obsession.
The book I am reading to end summer is The Next Always by Nora Roberts.
I’m currently reading Dearie – the Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz.
I didn’t save a book, but am finishing Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe. I have really enjoyed it because it’s set on Isle of Palms, S.C., a place I’d like to return to someday!
We’re going up to Maine next week and I plan to read what else MAINE, heard it was a great read. And if I win Susan’s book Willow lake wil be my next.
I so enjoyed the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. When Apocolypes Odd came out – I knew this one the one to save and savor.
I’ve read so many books this summer but saved Porch Lights by Dorthea Benton Frank until late August & followed that by Red Mist by Patricia Caldwell.
William Kent Krueger’s Trickster’s Point
I’m reading a Georgia O’Keefe biography.
I saved the whole Hunger Games series.
I don’t really save one book to the last. I go to the library and get a stack and read them as fast as I can – So many books, so little time! I have a couple of these on my list so would love to read the whole set.
Heh, Karen. I long ago decided that my gravestone will read, “Two many books, too little time!” Sure it the truth, isn’t it!?
Four Hats In The Ring by Lewis L. Gould
Read & share thats what summer is all about.
I read all the time, so I don’t save books for the end of summer. Right now I’m reading “RED MIST” by Patricia Cornwell.
Tigers in red weather by Klaussmann, Liza was a good one to end summe with–I’m already onto my autumn list.
I just finished reading “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts” by Neil White (a true story) and enjoyed it more than Ibthought I would.
Mr. White will be speaking at our local library soon and I’m really looking forward to listening to him.
Fran
The Passion of Astemisia: A Novel. Excellent.
I am in the middle of laura Lippman’s new book, which I got almost as soon as it came out. ” And When She Was Good”
I never have a “last” book, as I have piles of my own books, plus constant reserved books arriving for me at my local library. (I was hoping that Gone Girl would have arrived for me by now, but I’m still far back on the library list!) I recently finished several books by T. Greenwood: Grace, Undressing the Moon, Two Rivers, The Hungry Season. A friend and I discovered this author a month ago, and wondered why neither of us had ever heard of her, as the books are really wonderful little stories/dramas.
The last book I read this summer was The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
I would rank this book as one of the top three I have ever read in my life!!! Isn’t it amazing how, after the first couple pages, you don’t even think about the narrator being a dog! My husband even loved this book. When people hear it is narrated by a dog, they assume it is “cutesy”. Definitely anything but!
I am reading West of Here by Jonathan Evison. Great novel about the settlement of a town in Washington State, covering past and present times.
I saved Summer Rental from Mary Kay Andrews…Her books are always funny, enjoyable, and always romantic..I am reading Willow Lake from the beginning…xo, snowhugs
I had to wait all summer for The Hunger Games series. It was worth it though. The movie was good also.
My last summer read is Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Dune Road by Jane Green
The new biography of Julia Child, entitle “Dearie.” She was such an interesting person, a real inspiration to me back in the 1970s when I poured over “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” Her love affair with her husband Paul Child is a marriage most of us just dream of…
My last summer read was Wrapped in Rain by Charles Martin. I love his books because they are southern and touching and because he creates wonderful, multifaceted characters I come to really care about. This was one of his earlier books I’d had on my shelf for awhile and kept setting aside for his newer ones. Perfect way to end the summer!
I am saving both of Deborah Harkness’ books to enjoy once the weather turns cool.
Sarah’s Key
Enjoyed this book, but the movie is even better. That might be the first time I ever liked a movie better than the book. It is because the ending was handled better in the movie, even though it was basically the same. If you enjoyed the book, try the movie too!
For my last book of summer, I’m reading Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire.
I am starting to read The Ten Girls to Watch
Just starting Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli series.
I loved reading the “Honneymooners” by Nell Freudenberger, I love reading about two cultures.
So far I’ve saved 12…Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich, Creole Belle by James Lee Burke, and all 10 of Susan Wiggs’s great reads that I hope to win in this contest!
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I saved Three Junes by Julia Glass
I saved Amanda Quick`s latest, CRYSTAL GARDENS. I really like her “voice” and this is the first in a new series. I have read the first book in the Willow Lake series and would like to read the rest!
Not the last but the best book I’ve read this summer is Gold by Chris Cleave. I had the wonderful opportunity of participating in an interview with the author on Google Hangout. Mr. Cleave answered our questions and gave insight on what motivated him to write this story. His other books are must-reads!
I’ve saved “Somebody Else’s Daughter” by Elizabeth Brundage as my last summer read. Would love to read Susan Wiggs!
I not save a book. Enjoy Susan Wiggs books.
I saved the Hunger Games series for last!!!
High Tide at Noon by Elisabeth Ogilvie
50 shades of grey by EL James
I saved Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn for the last of my summer reading. I am just about done and glad I saved it for last because it is a very dark and twisted story about two really messed up people. Not something I would normally read, but it is my Book Club’s pick for September!
The Passage, just in time for the sequel coming out in October!
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore – and it was worth it. It’s a first novel by the author, and I can’t imagine what the follow up will be. Terrific. Mind-pushing. Fun. Stimulating
I am reading several books at the moment for end of summer fun reading. I am reading Midnight Promises by Sherryl Woods and catching fireflies. Danielle Steels Friends Forever book as well. So many books I have lined up to read so they will take me into the winter and fall. I have read Marrying Daisy Bellamy and just LOVED it and have listened to the others as well. This is one of my favorite series.
To answer the question, my last two reads were The Inn at Rose Harbor, and I just finished Return to Willow Lake. Who WHO could save these two for the last book of summer? I could NOT wait to read them! Both were wonderful!
Wow ! So many to choose from. I guess I would have to say “Best Staged Plans” by Claire Cook.
I’ve saved Gone Girl for last!
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
“Thunder and Rain” by Charles Martin. Great book about a Texas Ranger. Also read “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O’Reilly. Fantastic historical read with a great sense of place. You feel like you are right back in DC in the 1800′s.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I don’t save the best for last. I dive in right away! Have been enjoying Elizabeth Chadwick (historical fiction) and currently Sarah Waters. A new find for me…
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
My last book of summer is “A Land More Kind than Home” by Wiley Cash, and so far it was worth the wait…
I have saved ‘Behind The Beautiful Forevers’ by Katherine Boo
“The Garden Intrigue” by Lauren Willig. I didn’t end up reading it at the beach so I’m going to save it for my next vacation this fall!
I know I couldn’t leave any of Susan Wigg’s until last,they are too good…but I can reread the old ones..
The Next Best Thing by Jennifer Weiner
The Lost Recipe for Happiness – Barbara O’Neal
I saved You Came Back by Christopher Coake. Very good so far!
iam really not sure but if i win i will be reading one of yours!! then when iam done reading i always share with friends and family !! thanks
I am always reading but I love series books the best and I won’t read them until I have all of the series. I just saw the Lake Shore Chronicles in the book store and put it in my “To Read Notebook” that I always have in my pocketbook. I get really excited when I can cross books off the list! So I guess my last book(s) of the summer will be the Lakeshore Chronicles if I am lucky enough to win!
I saved for last: Gold by Chris Cleave.
I would love to have all ten of the Susan Wiggs books.
The Inn at Rose Harbor is waiting for an upcoming beach vacation. But I hope the books I’m saving will be the entire Susan Wiggs collection
I just finished Gone, Girl, Broken Harbor, The Chaperone and The Light Between Oceans – all excellent.
I’m not really “saving” it, but I’m looking forward to the September release of Lisa Genova’s newest, Love, Anthony. Loved both her previous books.
I’m saving The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest for last. One I finish it, the series will be at an end and I want it to last.
It would be great to win these for my just-turned-90 year old Mom!
Her last book was Anthony Doerr’s FOUR SEASONS IN ROME, which she totally loved. Mine was Benjamin Saenz’ names on a map.
The book I saved for last was The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It is the title for this month’s book club meeting at my library and I always end up waiting till the last minute!
This year I saved (and savored!) Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (a Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson.
And it was hilarious!
Jo Nesbo’s The Leopard . . . a wonderful end to the summer
The last book of the summer for me was Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable. What a sobering and enlighting read.
What an amazing giveaway! I would so love to win all of these books. My mouth is hanging open at the thought of it!
The novel I saved for last was Julia Quinn’s “A Night Like This.”
Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind” – it’s never too late!
I’m reading The Litigators by John Grisham
The book I saved for last this summer is Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan.
I don’t normally save novels, but I do have a Newberry Honor book I’m planning to get to soon: The Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus.
I read constantly, so nothing was saved until last! BUT!! I DID put off A Tale of Two Cities, which I now NEED to read for my second book club!
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand………awesome giveaway!!
Susan Wiggs’ books sound like perfect summer endings, but the book I’m currently finishing up is Mitch Albom’s “The Time Keeper.” My summer just ticked away!
I didn’t on purpose save a book to read last this summer but the last book I read was “A Hopeful Heart” by Kim Vogel Sawyer. My daughter went to a flea market this summer and picked me up quite a few books at the flea market for me to read and “A Hopeful Heart” was one of those books:)
Im waiting for the twelve. By Cronin. Also I want everyone to pick up love Anthony. It’s wonderful
Always reading, like many others, but finally got Mockingjay, and 11/22/63 by King
I saved a book that I had read the prequel to a few years ago. The first book in the series was so gripping and irresistible that I couldn’t wait to start the next one. Unfortunately, life intervened, as it always does, and it took until this summer to begin the second of the three-part series. The first book, Dark Angels, by Karleen Koen, was FAB!!! So, when I started Through a Glass Darkly at the end of August, I could not put it down. I read before work, on my break at work, after work, after dinner, and before bed every day!!!Finished a 675 pg. book in 5 days! What a phenomenal writer and story she has to tell!!!
I saved the best for I last, “Tidewater Inn” by Colleen Coble. It is set in the Outer Banks and I love to read books in this setting. Of course, the author is always best at taking me away to live somewhere else for the summer. Susan Wiggs writing is the same. I just love to live in her stories!
I didn’t really set out to save it for the end of Summer but I did hold off on reading Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. I still haven’t started it yet because here in Chicago it is still 90 degrees making it still Summer to me. I will be starting it soon unless I win Susan Wiggs books and in that case I will start on them immediately.
I eat my dessert first so when I saw Debbie Macomber’s book, “The Inn At Rose Harbor”, I sat right down & gobbled it down in one day. The last book would be the one that I like the least.
I became a Susan Wiggs fan with her book about a wedding dress. I can count on her fiction because the protagonists are people that I can root for. I don’t mind protagonists who make mistakes–we all do, certainly–but I have a hard time reading books where the protagonists are so ethically and morally flawed that I don’t care what happens to them.
I’m saving for last THE EIGHTY-DOLLAR CHAMPION by Elizabeth Letts, and given to me by my oldest daughter, an avid horsewoman. I have four adult daughters and nothing is more rewarding than sharing various books with each of them. I’ll definitely save the Susan Wiggs books should I be lucky enough to win.
I saved Kaling’s book, so I could gear up for her fall sitcom!
The last book that was saved for last is: The Shomaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
I was thrilled when The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber came in at the local library just in time for me to read over Labor Day weekend. What a treat.
It doesn’t feel like summer is over yet. I’m just starting God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam for my book club and The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson for me.
the last book I read this summer was The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman.
Didn’t really save one for last – but had to share this one with my 15 year old son – he didn’t want to read it at first and once he started he didn’t want me to read ahead of him so he would hide it.
Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer (her daughter)
I saved Paris My Sweet by Amy Thomas. It will make me
think I travel to France over the summer-even if i did not!
I saved Duma Key by Stephen King for my end-of-summer read. I love to get lost in a good story, and this one has been full of suspense, keeping me up late at night turning pages!
The three books I wanted to read this summer are The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, which I have; Main by J. Courtney Sullivan, which I’m in the middle of; and Gone Girl, which I’m anticipating. I read Gillian Flynn’s first book Sharp Object earlier in the summer and found it thoroughly absorbing….
I’m saving Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
The last one this summer will be A BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny. She is a wonderful writer.
My last book of the summer is The Great Escape by Susan Elizabeth Phillips…one of my favorite authors. Thanks for the contest..what a wonderful prize!
Just started reading Emilie Richards’ latest novel, “One mountain
away’. I’ve read all her books and love the series she writes. This will
be the first of three in her “Goddesses Anonymous” series.
Her quilt series is my favorite. If you haven’t read her, give her books
a try.
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Since I read every day of the year, I don’t have a last book of the summer. Currently reading Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I enjoy different genres and will have to try this series.
Gone Girl
Last book I read was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Wow! What a labyrinthian brain she must have. Loved the book.
I just finished reading an older one of James Patterson’s–3rd degree. I read almost non-stop and enjoy Patterson, Patricia Cornwall and Grisham, to name a few.
I don’t save any book to be my last read–I just keep reading everything I possibly can and never get to the ‘last book’
Debbie Macomber’s “The Inn at Rose Harbor”
My reading is constant so it really knows no “seasons”. Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring – it is just one big reading season to me. This summer, I had many books on hold at the library, and they all came in almost at the same time. I was quite busy, but busy in such a good way. Two books that I did not get to and I am reading now are, Tears in the Darkness by Michael and Elizabeth Norman (very good book about the Bataan Death March – I like it just as much as Unbroken), and The Paris Wife by Paula McClain.
I’ve been trying to read all the Eve Dallas detective series by J.D. Robb. For the most part I’ve tried to read them in publishing date order, but haven’t always been able to do so because of unavailability at the library. So last week I was able to check out the final book of the series that I haven’t read, Treachery in Death.
I love the mystery series connections you’ve made. That is how I read – if I find a character that I like, I want to read all of the books featuring that character: Harry Bosch, Kay Scarpetta, Lisbeth Salander, etc.
Reading Gone girl as my last book of the summer!!
I put off reading Hilary Mantel’s BRING UP THE BODIES until last week because I thought it would roll over into several weeks of Fall. Not True! It’s such a flowing read, she pulls the reader right along – just like breathing. I laugh and wonder and can hardly put it down so it definitely isn’t going to last another week.
The Help. And, although it was a good book, when I read I want to escape. We already live in a world of reality.
The Night Circus
Heading out to wonderful….very tragic book.
“Gone” by Mo Hayder. Very good!
I am in two book clubs and try to fit in as many other books as possible during free time. The book that I saved for my last summer read is The Language of Flowers which I enjoyed very much. I have read seven of the books in Susan’s series but took them out from the library. I would love to win the collection for myself. This series reminds me of the Cedar Cove books by Debbie Macomber.
I saved ONE AMAZING THING by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Each fall the city has a READ ONE BOOK event & the author comes to speak. It always signals the end of summer & beginning of fall.
It’s been a VERY LONG HOT SUMMER here in Arizona. I’d really love to sit down and start your series from the very first one. Then I can pass them on to my book club ladies and library.
Hope you choose me.
Janet
Blue Skies by Robyn Carr, because my daughter-in-law and I just wait for her next book, and there it was at the supermarket just in time for the end of summer. The only disappointment is that it is not part of the Virgin River series. Her stand alone’s are almost just as good, but you have to love returning to Virgin River.
The Empty Glass by J I BAker…a novel about Marilyn Monroe
I have been working hard all summer editing a novel and have read nothing for 3 months, and it’s killing me. Bookaholic that I am, I have been buying some and squireling them away like precious walnuts. They are all inviting and I want to read them all immediately. So I will surprise myself by my first choice the last week in September which I have set aside for things I’ve been wanting to get to. I am a Susan Wiggs fan, so of course it I were lucky enough to win. That would be my first pick.
I saved Debbie MAcombers books” The Last Boyfriend” as my end of the summer read.
Reading books is my main hobby and something I do every day. I particularly enjoy reading fiction books that are part of a series. Over the summer I read Philip Gulley’s Harmony series and I just started Patrick Taylor’s Irish Country Doctor series. Other series I enjoyed over the past year or so were Debbie Macomber’s Blossom Street and Cedar Cove series, Robyn Carr’s Virgin River series and Charlene Ann Baumbich Dearest Dorothy series.
The chaperon
I will read Louise Penny’s Beautiful Mystery, which I have not been saving, but rather eagerly awaiting.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is the best book I’ve read all year and a great book to end the summer. I was so sad that it had to end.
I’m reading Broken Harbor by Tana French and Tiny Beautiful Things by the lovely Cheryl Strayed. These are my end of summer reads…
The book I saved is Shannon McKenna’s Tasting Fear. Always entranced by her stories and taking a late summer beach vacation.
I can’t say that I have any book for last. There is never an end to my reading, not through summer, fall, winter, or spring. It runs together and I can’t get enough!!
I love to read morning noon or night . Winter fall summer. I would be so happy to win a whole series of books by Susan Wiggs !!
The Bride Wore Spurs
The book I left to last was The Gendarme by Mark Mustain
“Gone” by Randy Wayne White
“The Flight of Gemma Hardy” by Margot Livesey. Started out slow but turned into a really great book.
The Kite Runner. I’ll be starting it in a day or two.
‘Saving a book’ is not a compliment in my life. That is why my ‘saved books’ got pushed aside so that I could read and finish Julie Garwood’s ‘Sweet Talk’. As usual, her book had me reading till my eyes would not stay open!!
I am always reading, never stop. I guess my holdout for the end of summer would be “Fifty Shades Freed”…can’t help it, I got hooked on it.
I do tend to read books that correspond to seasons – I don’t like to read about winter in the summer and vice versa. The last two books I read this summer were Porch Lights by Doretha Benton Frank and The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber: these were both fabulous books!
I am teaching about Native Americans in my fifth grade class, so I have saved two books to read at the end of the summer. First, Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich and second, Empire of the Summer Moon by SC Gwynne. Lest you think I am all work and no play, I did read some Nicholas Sparks over the long weekend!
Christopher Coake’s book You Came Back.
Just finished Gone Girl. Would be delighted to start a new set of Susan Wiggs books…
I, like many others, am always reading but the book I’ve been saving to read when I can just spend the whole day reading is “Goddess of Vengeance” by Jackie Collins. Thanks for a great contest – Susan Wiggs is one of my favorite authors!!!
Barely Breathing by Rebecca Donovan was the book I saved for the last one of the summer. The final book of the trilogy should be out this fall and I wanted to read them close together. She is an awesome author. I love to read romance and Susan Wiggs is a great romance writer.
I am re-reading all of the Jane Austen novel. My favorite Sense and Sensibility is the one I saved for last.
Susan Wiggs is one of my favorite authors. I hope I win.
The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans
Sandwich, With A Side of Romance, by Krista Phillips. It was goood!
I am reading the Lost Symbol by Dan Brown , a few pages every day at lunch
Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson came at a perfect time. Being from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I had to ride out Hurricane Isaac. Having this great book to read made me appreciate even more why I live where I do!
I saved The Passage by Justin Cronin. It is a very long book so I knew it would take me awhile to get through it. I enjoyed it very much & the next book in the series is due out soon! Can’t wait to read it! I do love reading Susan Wiggs & just picked up her latest book!
I’ve have a whole stack – too many books not enough time! Three of them are: Catfish Alley (read start to finish on Labor Day, great book!), American Dervish, and The Fixer Upper!
Porch Lights by Dorothea Benton Frank was a good summer book. Just started Beach House by Jane Green.
My last book read was Confederacy of Dunces by Kenneth O’Toole …. I don’t want to refer to saving for last because there are so many things I want to read that I’ll never read everything… I always have a book next in line and there is no end (last).
Gone Girl is still waiting for me.
I can’t say I specifically saved this until the end of summer, but I am reading Alan Brennert’s Molakai. It was suggested to me by a co-worker.
I read Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness as soon as it came out and also read The Hangman’s Daughter.
First, Last, middle what ever book lands in my lap. Reading “The Mystery of the Gulls” by Phyllis A. Whitney It takes place where I spend my summers. Quite a oldie but still good.
The book I saved for the end of summer was one my brother recommended: Moonwalking with Einstein.
The After Wife
There’s no way I can save any book for last…I read them as soon as I get them. My nightstand is always piled up with books! Last book read was The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (a book club read).
I saved the new book The Fallen by Daniel Silva. Great book.
“Remarkable Creatures” by Tracy Chevalier
Megan Hart’s Precious and Fragile Things..
Just PASSED my Paramedic class!!
Two years of reading nothing but textbooks.
The book I’ve been waiting to read is:
It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
My last book for summer ’12 is The Light Between Oceans. LOVE it
I have spent most of the summer reading Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swensen series and still have one to go to have read all of the current ones. (I started with book 1 and have worked my way through the series with the occasional detour to another author while waiting for the library to get copies for me). I don’t really save a book for last since I am reading all of the time. I guess I could say Cinnamon Roll Murder since it is the current end of the series. (or maybe I will finally read The Three Musketeers by Dumas since i have been wanting to read it for quite a while…)
The Uninvited Guests, by Sadie Jones
All summer I’ve been waiting for Deborah Harkness’ Book 2 of the All Souls Trilogy, Shadow of Night to come available at the library. Since the first book was so good, and ended with a very large “cliff-hanger”, it’s been very hard to wait.
I just discovered Lorna Barrett and am going back to beginning of the Booktown series and reading all of the previous books in series and am saving the book she just had come out for the end of summer.
I’m not sure I follow save a book for last. The book chooses you. (I’m not a nutter, but how else do you explain the order in which you start reading your next book. When there are multiple options one always leads the pack as the next one, and not always the one you thought was next, or the one you thought you wanted to read most! The book chooses you.)
I read “Bringing Up the Bodies” by Martel and finished it in two days. How amazing that a storyline that is so well known including the outcome could be written in such way as to make it hard to put the book down!
Excellent, excellent read.
You’ve got to read Wolf Hall then, if you liked Bringing Up the Bodies. Great reading about an extremely interesting period.
The last book I read was ” Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter “. I am currently reading ” Aunt Dimity & the Village Witch “. I am an avid book reader and I like all genre’s . My 9 yr. old daughter got her love of reading from me, over the summer she read 52 books. Every month I get the “Book Pages” paper from the library and write down in a notebook the titles I want to read. I am currently up to 330 books. My daughter and I also go to a lot of book sales.
I have the urge to read Jane Eyre,a great classic.
I am looking forward to reading the The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber
I can’t save anything particular. Whatever comes in next at the library or by ebook I take it. Sometimes 2 at a time. An audiobook in the car too.
Last book I read…Barefoot: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand
I read many books this summer. My spare time was spent on the beach with my NOOK or a bound book in my lap. This is what living on Long Island is all about.
Saved my fall Book Group Classic Read, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” very different as a mature adult reader. Many of the words in our vocabulary like “Jim Crow,” about the black experience actually come from this book.
I am currently reading your book “summer by the sea” and loving it. I have read all your books to date and love the Lakeshore Chronicles!
I read so many books this summer! The last book I read before school started for students was “The Chaperone” by Laura Moriarty.
The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva – continues the adventures and life of Gabriel Allon.
There is no last book.
At any rate, none that I intentionally saved for last this summer. The one I most recently finished was Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett, and I’ve been working on Brothers Karamozov for a while now. Also just picked up The Giver.
I saved Kristen Ashley’s Rock Chick Regret. I went through the previous Rock Chick books pretty fast. I love her writing–hot alpha males, spunky funny females, and danger. Ashley is self published and I think that is cool. Take that!!! you big snobby publishers!!
The gods of Gotham
I waited more than a year to sit down with Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novel Wolf Hall. Worth every bit of the wait!
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness. I didn’t save it for last but waited anxiously for it to come out since it’s the second book in the “All Souls” trilogy!
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness. Can’t wait for book 3 in this trilogy!
I saved the “End of Your Life Book Club” for last. Hoefully, it won’t be too sad but will give me a great list of books to start the fall season with…unless I win of course!!
I read one of the Lakeshore books and loved it! Hope I win the bookcase! My last book of the summer was Lisa Wingate’s “Dandelion Summer”, an un-put-downable story about a curmudgeon rocket engineer and a bi-racial teenage girl, who go on a crazy road trip to uncover a secret about the curmudgeon’s family history. Stupendous! But my FIRST book of the summer was also wonderful – Susan Meissner’s “The Shape of Mercy” – which somehow escaped my notice when it first came out – a undefinable story about a wealthy young college woman trying to find her own way in the world, an older woman trying to make peace with her past, and the title character “Mercy”, whose diary of her experience during the Salem Witch Trials shapes the book’s themes. The two best books I read this year.
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussman
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness. Can’t wait for the last book!
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
what an interesting book…..read like a novel…
I recently discovered the mystery series by Joanna Challis that features a young Daphne du Maurier as the heroine. The series displays mysterious happenings that provide inspiration for du Maurier’s later writings. Always a fan of Daphne du Maurier, I saved the third in the series “The Villa of Death” for a special time, now.
I read “The Help”. Can’t afford to belong to a bookclub, or go to the movies, so when I saw a copy at the library (thank goodness for our library!), I checked it out and now I know what the fuss was all about. What a powerful end to the summer’s reading!
The last book would be Dream Lake.
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It’s perpetual summer for me from April to October but I’m rereading Peter May’s Chinese series for a Mystery Book Club discussion.
Big Sky Mountain by Linda Lael Miller
Right now I’m reading two YA books, one by Mercedes Lackey and the other by Charles de Lint. I didn’t actually save them, they were just next on my pile
The Worst Hard Times by Egan because I am a farmer and also lead a book club in a rural community. I think we can identify….
I’m still reading Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt.
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
This book was published in 2011 but I didn’t get to read until now. I could not put it down.
I saved “The Lifeboat” till last so I could read it slowly and enjoy…..which I did.
Right now, I am reading The Family Corleone by Ed Falco, The Most Beautiful Thing by Fiona Robyn, and A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor after just completing The Last Romanov on the first of September, So, which is my last summer read? I read all the time, no matter the season!
Book six of J R Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Can’t wait!
Ocean beach by Wendy Wax
“Maine” by J. Courtney Sullivan.
I planned to read Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey and then August was done and I still haven’t read it. Where does the time go?
Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick
Killing Lincoln
“Shannon” by Frank Delaney. After reading his book, “Ireland”, which was a wonderful read, I picked up “Shannon” and loved it! A wonderful storyteller who knows how to intertwine bits of history along with his wonderful characters. Terrific read!
My last book before returning to work after the summer was The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott. Having visited Cobh and being from New York it was an extremely interesting book which I could not put down.
Wild, by Cheryl Strayed — in hopes that it will inspire me to go for a really long hike in one of our many beautiful parks to enjoy fall leaves and to think, reflect and plan…my fall reading list!!!
I read at least a book each week and am always looking for a book to suggest to my book club which meets the third Tuesday of each month. I just keep reading whatever I see or hear about that looks interesting. Recently a friend suggested Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I’m almost finished with it and can hardly put it down. I admire Cheryl’s courage in hiking the Pacific Coast Trail and trying to put her life together. Her life style is not exactly in synch with mine, but we are all different and I do find her to be an interesting person. I would definitely recommend the book.
My last book of the summer is The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom – just started it on September 5. I have Gabby by Gabrielle Gifford waiting for me.
Just finished ‘A Discovery of Witches’, can hardly wait for the second book.
My last book of the summer is ‘Harry Potter y el misterio del principe’ – not because I saved it for last, but because I’ve been working on improving my Spanish by reading YA books in Spanish and they always take me so much longer than books in English! Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson is up next, though…
I saved A Discovery Of Witches to “read” (listen to the audiobook) for the end of the summer, because I knew that I would be making a 4-5 hour drive to stay with one of best friends over a weekend. I am really enjoying it and my drive went by much more quickly than listening to music.
I’m always reading but the last book I read was “You’re Already Amazing” by Holley Gerth. It was a very good book. Lots of truth in it..non-fiction though. The last fiction book I read was also a great book by Debbie Macomber. It was The Inn at Rose Harbor.
Deadlocked from Charlane Harris
Will Sookie Stakehouse ever get back with Bill. The supense kills me every book that come out.
I’m not sure you can call it “saving” as I’ve already read the entire series twice, but I’m currently re-reading the Twilight saga. I absolutely love that series and am refreshing my memory before Breaking Dawn Part 2 comes out in November.
I have been reading Robyn Carr’s series this summer. Read all 3 Grace River series and am now on second book of Virgin River Series. Meanwhile Danielle Steel’s Best Friends Forever just became available at the library so I will need to wait to read book 3!
Excellent book by Phillipa Gregory….”The Kingmaker’s Daughters. Also just read “Sweet Talk” by Julie Garwood….easy read. Looking forward to Susan Wiggs’ latest. I love her books and have read most of them.
I saved I Micheal Bennet for the last book to read for August.
The last book of summer I read is The Forsaken by Lisa Stasse.
War and Peace – in Russian
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness. Looking forward to book 3 in the trilogy!
Just finishing The Sunless Sea by Anne Perry.
I don’t usually save a book – I just want to start each new book right away!
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver; A wonderful, beautifully written read and a memorable way to end the summer.
The Good Dream
My last book of summer, really looking forward to the Lakeshore Chronicles.
May the Road Rise to Meet You by Peter Troy.
Spans the Irish Famine until the end of the Civil War. Very good. Follows 4 characters: immigrant from Ireland, female Spanish abolishionist, male slave and a female slave and how their lives intertwine.
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
The teachers in our school set a goal of 20 books for the summer. The last book I read was 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Living in the Dallas area, brought this book to life for all of us; not to mention that King is such an accomplished writer. We use example from his books in our English classes. Number 21 is WILD, which I am enjoying a lot.
I saved “Of Poseidon” by Anna Blanks for last!
Shoemaker’s Wife!
I don’t save books I just read them as I hear about them but right now I’m reading Gone Girl.
This series looks good. I’m always looking for new authors to recommend to readers at BAM in Va.
The last book I ready was Empty by Suzanne Weyn. Well… you think it is the end of the world with no oil and this book looks at the lives of different teens during their struggle to adapt to daily life without it. I like how the cheerleader, weird girl, jock etc. interacted as the book unfolds. Throughout the book were newspaper articles which gave the reader a sense of the issue at hand and it also made it a little scary. This book seemed so timely since gas prices are always rising and who knows what can happen so maybe we have something to learn from this book in regard to fuel choices
The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand and Shadow of Night
I saved Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Make Over. I know it sounds crazy but I like to indulge myself with good mysteries and love stories during the summer and leave the more serious books for the fall.
I never know what genre I’m in the mood for. I go to my TBR pile and check to see which book grabs my attention. It’s always a surprise what I pick.
The silver boat by Luanne Rice
The book I saved for last was ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD by Kendare Blake. After a summer of steamy and heartfelt romances, I needed to get a fix of good teen horror mystery.
Gone Girl! I heard so many rave reviews I had to save the best for last..
I left the Life of Pi for last this Summer.
Always reading/listening to three books at once. One in car, one audio while I sew and one just to read. Just finished Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult. Excellent story! Best book of summer was The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli. Total surprise, couldn’t put it down. But I am seriously looking forward to reading 50 Shades of Grey because my friends won’t stop talking about it.
I never thought to save a book for the end of the season, but that is a great idea! A book I am looking forward to reading that has to do with a summer activity is “Gold” by Chris Cleave.
The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb. Based on a true story which took place not far from my home here in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
I’m eager to read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. This summer I read
selections by Jodi Picoult and Sharyn McCrumb. So many good books,
and so little time.
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