Most Read This Week In Summer

[close] My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here (in the Sign-Up Discussion) or at my blog (if you have a blog, use the sign-up page on my blog so you can leave your link). http://bookbybook.blogspot.com/p/2017-big-book-summer.html

[close] My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here (in the Sign-Up Discussion) or at my blog (if you have a blog or YouTube channel, use the sign-up page on my blog so you can leave your link). All the details can be found here: https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-big-book-summer-2022-this-is.html

[close] My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer kicks off on May 23 and ends on September 1 this year. You can challenge yourself to read 1 Big Book or 2 ... or however many you want! It No sign-ups this year, just join the fun! Melinda from A Web of Stories is co-hosting. More information on my blog: https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/p/big-book-summer-2025.html Or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP999RbpaR8

[close] I'd like some advice on a good summer read but I'm quite specific. I'm from Corsica and live in North London for 5 years. I'm going back to Corsica for a month or two and would like to read books following those three categories. 1 - Something quite like Fitzgerald's Tender is the night - Pre-WW2 foreigners spending time in elegant and luxurious surroundings by the sea. 1 - Something quite like Brideshead Revisited. I'm too hot in Corsica and misses the UK. Books set during summer spent in Victorian houses, in parks and ponds more than by the sea, in which everyone dresses in white and enjoys drinking before dinner. 3 - Something quite like Rum Diary. A much warmer summer with heavy drinking. The characters are so hot they drink to forget and go swimming. You can feel inspired to do the same.