Travel :: Summer Beach Reads

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald // Beautiful Ruins // Tender is the Night // The Vacationers // The Art of Hearing Heartbeats // Valley of the Dolls // Where We Belong // A Hundred Summers // The Sun Also Rises

In light of our upcoming trip to St. Maarten {only three more days!}, I have rounded up nine perfect beach reads.  Some I have already read {Valley of the Dolls, The Sun Also Rises, Beautiful Ruins, Z}  and would easily bring with me on vacation again to reread.  The rest I have waiting for me on my Kindle to dive into by the pool {no pun intended}.  I'll admit I tend to gravitate towards fluffier books in the summer and denser books in the winter, but to me there's nothing like getting completely swept up in a book on vacation.  Happy reading!

My Life :: 2014 Reads

Where'd You Go Bernadette // The Interestings // The Fault in Our Stars // The Snow Child // Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own // The Aviator's Wife // All Decent Animals // A Constellation of Vital Phenomena // The Light Between Oceans // Eleanor & Park // Anna Karenina // The Beautiful and Damned

Well hello friends!  I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend.  I will be spending the morning working on one of my resolutions {this year, and every year} of reading more books.  In the past few years I have become more and more of a bookworm, but even though I think I did quite well last year I'm hoping to read even more in 2014.  My goal is one book a week {however, this may change depending on the book...ahem Anna Karenina}...including the above twelve books {see my 2013 list here}.  Have you read any of these books?  What were your thoughts?  I'd love to hear :)