Summer Reading

Summer weather has finally arrived and with that means LOTS of pool time! For those of you that know me, I have always been a water and sun lover. I could spend hours in the pool just floating around aimlessly soaking up the sun in the process. Believe me, every spare moment I have been able to obtain over the last week has been spent in the water or beside the water. With time by the water also means lots of reading time for me. For whatever reason summer is always the time I pick up a book and can't put it down. I read in the winter time too, but summer has always been the time of the year that I seem to fly through books. For us that means lots of trips to the library and sorting through our book cases to find books we no longer want to hold onto and trading them in at McKays. Yes, by far I would have to say that summer time is a favorite season!

Last night David and I went to McKays to walk around (because thats where all of our dates end up at these days) and of course I was drooling over a whole run of titles I want to read this summer. He of course did the same thing, though David has a habit of reading the same books multiple times. This isn't always a bad thing though, becaus I know most of the time if he has bought a book, its a well thought out purchase and will provide him with years of etnertainment! (provided it holds together that long!) I on the other hand tend to only read books once, unless it is a favorite. For example, I have all of the Harry Potter books, and I try to read them at least once a year. Same goes for my twilight books and I just finished a series that I am certian will jump on the "once a year" reading list. (For those of you interested in reading something mindless but also great I recomend the Luxe series! Totally worth it!!)

With our trip to McKays David and I talked about our summer reading lists and we came to a conclusion, we both tend to get stuck in the same genre of books and find ourselves not taking the time to think outside of the box. David reads science fiction and fantasy, whereas I am prone to reading romance and fantasy/ adventure books. I do pick up the occassional nonfiction book, but generally speaking I tend to stay in one genre! (back on track now) We decided that we are going to issue each other a challege. We are going to pick a book or seires once a year for the other to read. Something that the other person has never read before so that we can broaden our horizons and experience other types of books. Its important to us that we open our minds to something new as well as to have something new to talk about. I'm excited to see what our summer reading project will show about each other and also providing us with an opprotunity for new conversations! Wish us luck!!