My favorite time of the year is summer. I love picnics, berries of all kinds and their requisite desserts, swimming, sunbathing, fresh corn on the cob, sundresses, ice cream outings, flip flops, homegrown tomatoes and green beans from the garden\u2026the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n
But another thing I love about summer is reading\u2014which is a funny thing to say, since I read all year-round. But I love reading in summertime: on the beach, or on the grass in Prospect Park (the beautiful park near my home in Brooklyn). For whatever reason, I find I am still tied to the \u201cschool year\u201d calendar even though I haven\u2019t been in school in ages, and because of that, the reading I do in summer seems somehow more pleasurable\u2014more fiction, less nonfiction; more things I want <\/em>to read, not just things that have been on my shelf for six months.<\/p>\n I read some great books this summer\u2014a series of mystery novels that were pure fun, a literary novel recommended by a friend, a young adult novel that I\u2019m technically too old for but nevertheless enjoyed. And what\u2019s so marvelous about all of this reading is how it connects me to my past\u2014to the girl who used to laze away summer days, reading a good book on the grass.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what I did on my summer vacation. I hope yours was just as lovely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My favorite time of the year is summer. I love picnics, berries of all kinds and their requisite desserts, swimming, sunbathing, fresh corn on the cob, sundresses, ice cream outings, flip flops, homegrown tomatoes and green beans from the garden\u2026the list goes on and on. But another thing I love about summer is reading\u2014which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":36390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[343,68],"ppma_author":[510],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-summer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n