According to the calendar, summer, officially, is not until June 21.
With warmer weather, summer break from school, and vacations planned, the season starts in May and early June for most people.
I hope you have some good titles on your list, and would be happy to know what you intend to read, too!
With warmer weather, summer break from school, and vacations planned, the season starts in May and early June for most people.
I hope you have some good titles on your list, and would be happy to know what you intend to read, too!
My list of titles to read this summer is long, as usual. A
few titles include:
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff
--author of Beautiful Boy about his son Nick Sheff, who struggled with an addiction to meth
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff
--author of Beautiful Boy about his son Nick Sheff, who struggled with an addiction to meth
This book looks at legalization of marijuana and the purpose and services of rehab centers
Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me by Jerry McGill
I am judging this book by it's cover, and it looks compelling and makes me want to open to the first page.
I am judging this book by it's cover, and it looks compelling and makes me want to open to the first page.
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
--When Ben suffers a traumatic brain injury during a military attack, he loses his ability to walk, talk, or remember anything about himself. The road to recovery will not be easy.
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
finalist for national book award
--the reality of medicine – a science that is not able to perform miracles or make promises, with a risk always present, yet an art to this science and in service to others.
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
--Jess is a curious young boy, and has to grow-up faster and earlier than his age would determine. He must gather the will and courage to do what is right and overcome adversity.
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
--“In this poetic and powerful memoir, we meet Paul Coates:
a Vietnam vet and a Black Panther, an old-school disciplinarian and Aquarian
believer in free love…enigmatic god to his seven children, with a mission to
carry them across the shoals of inner-city adolescence..”
Calling Me Home by Juile Kibler
Isabelle McAllister and Dorrie Curtis are on a spontaneous road-trip from Texas to Cincinnati, and on this journey Dorrie learns of the elderly Isabelle’s secret past – a past that haunts Isabelle and may provide some answers for Dorrie
