Summer Lovin’ Day 2: You’re The One That I Want

Today’s Participation Discussion is… Must-Have Summer Reads

Tell us which books are on the top of your must-have summer reads list. They can be books you’ve read and recommend others to read, or books you want to read.

I’m going with favorites that I might pull out on a hot summer day:

  

My first pick is one of my favorite books of all time, Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn. Seriously, any of Beagle’s books are great choices.

Likewise, I haven’t gone wrong yet with Elmore Leonard. His writing is cinematic and his characters are, well, characters.  I like his Westerns, like Three-Ten to Yuma, best.

Speaking on the cinema, Jaws was pretty much the first summer blockbuster, based on Peter Benchley’s bestseller. Ultimate beach read, anyone?

I get into work funks during the summer. I blame the heat and a yearning for the summer vacations of my youth. Natalie Goldberg’s books on writing get the writing heart pumping again. Writing Down the Bones is for authors of every sort.