{"id":11355,"date":"2021-06-15T01:41:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2021-06-15T03:11:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T08:11:26","slug":"top-ten-books-on-my-summer-tbr-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11355","title":{"rendered":"top ten books on my summer tbr list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been especially good about reading this year, which is due in large part to working too much and being depressed and then working some more. But summer is a time of lounging by the pool and soaking up rays at the beach and staying out late at the park. I bet if I made dates with some of my friends to just go read at a cafe, they&#8217;d be down for that. So I will do that.<\/p>\n<p>To help with that plan come <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatartsyreadergirl.com\/2021\/06\/top-ten-books-on-my-summer-2021-to-read-list\/\">That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> and this week&#8217;s Top Ten Tuesday topic, a perennial seasonal favorite &#8212; the top ten books I plan to read this summer:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em>Incense and Sensibility<\/em> by Sonali Dev<\/strong> &#8212; The latest in one of my favorite series &#8212; retellings of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels &#8212; drops the first week in July.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Beth &#038; Amy<\/em> by Virginia Kantra<\/strong> &#8212; The sequel to <em>Meg &#038; Jo<\/em>, a modern reimagining of the four March sisters as 20-somethings who grew up on a farm in the Carolinas.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Pride &#038; Premeditation<\/em> by Tirzah Price<\/strong> &#8212; Yup, another Austen spin, but this time with a murder subplot.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Road Trip<\/em> by Beth O&#8217;Leary<\/strong> &#8212; I loved <em>The Flatshare<\/em> and road trips just scream summertime.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Lady&#8217;s Formula for Love<\/em> by Elizabeth Everett<\/strong> &#8212; A Victorian romance, but set between a fiercely independent scientist who heads a women&#8217;s intellectual circle and the bodyguard assigned to protect her. I&#8217;m hoping for a readalike to the Veronica Speedwell series.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Six of Crows<\/em> by Leigh Bardugo<\/strong> &#8212; A heist novel, this is part of the Grishaverse and features some of the characters from the recent <em>Shadows and Bone<\/em> series on Netflix. I&#8217;d started it on audio months ago and then decided it would work better on paper and have been waiting for it on the holds list ever since.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World<\/em> by Laura Imai Messina<\/strong> &#8212; Based on a true story, this novel tells about a telephone booth in a Japanese garden &#8212; and the unique purpose strangers put it to.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Personal Librarian<\/em> by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray<\/strong> &#8212; Historical fiction aboutBelle de Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan&#8217;s personal librarian and a Black woman passing as white.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>You&#8217;ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism<\/em> by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar<\/strong> &#8212; Real-life anecdotes from about Living While Black from Amber Ruffin and her sister.<\/li>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s on your summer TBR list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been especially good about reading this year, which is due in large part to working too much and being depressed and then working some more. But summer is a time of lounging by the pool and soaking up rays at the beach and staying out late at the park. 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