Join the Summer Reading Conversation!

When you are hunting for summer reading, it seems like everyone has an opinion or suggestion. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs publish list after list as the sun shines warmer.

But now it’s our turn. After all, who knows books better than us Wrimos who collectively write thousands of them every year?

On Thursday, June 7, we’ll be taking part in a jumbo-sized beach ball of a conversation about summer reading. With our partners at the New York Times Learning Network, the National Writing Project, Figment, 826 National, and Edutopia, plus a bunch of other great literary organizations, we basically want to have the biggest seasonal book chat of all-time.

Here’s how you can take part:

On Twitter (@NaNoWriMo and @NaNoWriMoYWP), we’ll be keeping up with the #summerreading hashtag all day. Tweet about the books you’re reading (or plan to read), your favorite summer books, your summer-reading spots… Anything goes!

On Facebook, be ready to pitch a summer reading recommendation. What do you like to read—and think others should, too—on the beach or in the hammock?

Sounds good, right? So stockpile those books, inflate the backyard swimming pool, mix up an Arnold Palmer, and join us on Thursday. (We’ll be the ones with the absurdly large sun hats to protect our sensitive writerly skin.)

– Chris

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