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Summer Reading List (2015 edition)

May 14, 2015 by HappyGoStuckey 8 Comments

Summer Reading ListFriends! We are 7 days away from Summer vacation in the Stuckey household. I CANNOT STAND IT.

If you find yourself knee deep in the end-of-the-year-can’t-help-its, hop on over and read Jen Hatmaker’s spit your coffee out funny post on being that mom at the end of the year. Never mind the fact that Lucy is only in half-day Kindergarten and her teachers are the most lovely, laid back– but still teaching my child a plethora of everything she needs to know– individuals ever. I’m really really going to miss them. We hit the teacher jackpot this year and I might just cry when school is over. Maybe. Or I might just pack us all up in the family truckster and head to the POOL. Because nothing says bring on the summer like handfuls of sunscreen.

OH. and that reminds me. You mamas of older children have seriously been holding out on me. Not one of you has mentioned the heaven-sent BLISS that is going to the pool with ZERO swim diapers. It seriously occurred to me just the other day in Target and I just about did the Carlton Banks (what? you don’t remember what the Carlton Banks looks like? Click HERE and go to :55 seconds. You’re welcome.) Anyway, I did that when I realized that this, summer, 2015 will be the first official summer in my entire parenting career that I have ever enjoyed without diapering a single child. Glory.

This week I finished two really great books. One I mentioned earlier this week, and Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist. Bittersweet was so lovely and I’ve been rationing out its’ chapters since March, not wanting to finish it. Then I got a little greedy and read more than three chapters at a time and I put it aside for a week. I know. I’m ridiculous. But nobody writes like Shauna. 

With Modern Mrs. Darcy publishing her Summer Reading Guide tomorrow, I finally gave some thought to my own Summer Reading List. Once I put them all out on the table, I realized how overly ambitious I am. Most of the titles are lighter, fiction works with a couple of non-fiction titles. And yes, there is a theme of food writing, because well, research!

Ok without further ado but in no particular order–

IMG_42431.My Life In France, Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme

2.Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple

3.Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver

4.You Are a Writer , Jeff Goins

5. Lizzy and Jane, Katherine Reay

6.Delicious! Ruth Reichl

7.Bossypants, Tina Fey

8.Anne of Avonlea and Anne’s House of Dreams, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Your turn! Have you read any of these? Thoughts? What are you hoping to read this summer?

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Comments

  1. leahmariegj says

    May 17, 2015 at 3:01 am

    Autobiographies by comedians is one of my two fav genre of books…and “Bossy pants,” is the best!
    “Never tell a crazy person they are crazy.”

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    • happygostuckey says

      May 18, 2015 at 7:20 am

      I’m glad to hear you give it your vote, Leah! We’re praying for your Dad over here. <3

      Reply
  2. leahmariegj says

    May 17, 2015 at 3:01 am

    Autobiographies by comedians is one of my two fav genre of books…and “Bossy pants,” is the best!
    “Never tell a crazy person they are crazy.”

    Reply
    • happygostuckey says

      May 18, 2015 at 7:20 am

      I’m glad to hear you give it your vote, Leah! We’re praying for your Dad over here. <3

      Reply

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  1. Summer Reading and Savor by Shauna Niequist | Happy Go Stuckey says:
    June 28, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    […] My favorite wall in our house is the one that is covered by books. We are all big readers around here. I always keep quite a to-read pile and then a secondary of to-read-after-I-read-the-others shelf. Some books I finish rapidly, others I put down and pick back up several time over the course of a month or two. (Curious what my summer reading list is?) […]

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  2. Summer Reading and Savor by Shauna Niequist | Happy Go Stuckey says:
    June 28, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    […] My favorite wall in our house is the one that is covered by books. We are all big readers around here. I always keep quite a to-read pile and then a secondary of to-read-after-I-read-the-others shelf. Some books I finish rapidly, others I put down and pick back up several time over the course of a month or two. (Curious what my summer reading list is?) […]

    Reply
  3. What I Learned in June | Happy Go Stuckey says:
    July 1, 2015 at 10:13 am

    […] the idea of them “moving out” of my brain so I read them slooooowly. Currently from my summer reading list, I am enjoying Lizzy and Jane by Katherine Reay. If you read Dear Mr. Knightley, this one is […]

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  4. What I Learned in June | Happy Go Stuckey says:
    July 1, 2015 at 10:13 am

    […] the idea of them “moving out” of my brain so I read them slooooowly. Currently from my summer reading list, I am enjoying Lizzy and Jane by Katherine Reay. If you read Dear Mr. Knightley, this one is […]

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