It's Time for Beach Reading

'Tis the season for beach reading … and here are a few recent reading lists for you:

- First, of course, I must mention the Seattle Books Examiner's Best Beach Reads for Summer list, as Forgetting English is included (no bias here, clearly). I also love this list for including two other collections of short stories: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and Love Stories in This Town by Amanda Eyre Ward (again, no bias here at all).

- The Washington Post has asked authors to name the characters they