{"id":543,"date":"2009-06-22T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/summer-reading-whats-on-your-list.html"},"modified":"2009-06-22T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:03:24","slug":"summer-reading-whats-on-your-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/06\/summer-reading-whats-on-your-list.html","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading: What&#8217;s On Your List?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/BookLawn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BookLawn.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/BookLawn-thumb-128x110-5905.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"110\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/span>Remember when we were in school and we got lists of books we had to have read by September?&nbsp; Invisible Man, Siddhartha, As I Lay Dying&#8211;some years the list was longer than others, some years (oy, Faulkner) were more challenging than others.&nbsp; But every summer, I read.<\/p>\n<p>So here, at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/06\/midsummer-the-summer-solstice.html\">the official start of summer<\/a>, reading is on my mind.&nbsp; And I admit to feeling a little stuck.&nbsp; My reading habits for the past couple of months have been re-treads of old, fun favorites&#8211;&#8220;The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood&#8221; and &#8220;The DaVinci Code&#8221;&#8211;and a delicious novel or two&#8211;the best being &#8220;The Last Chinese Chef&#8221; by Nicole Mones.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Fabulous, and always satisfying, but I have no pile of summer-reads waiting for me to plow through.&nbsp; Do you?&nbsp; I&#8217;d love some inspiration for either old favorites or new goodies.<\/p>\n<p>Happy summer reading, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>(image via: <a href=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/06\/06\/summer_reading\/source\/1.htm\">http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/06\/06\/summer_reading\/source\/1.htm<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we were in school and we got lists of books we had to have read by September?&nbsp; Invisible Man, Siddhartha, As I Lay Dying&#8211;some years the list was longer than others, some years (oy, Faulkner) were more challenging than others.&nbsp; But every summer, I read. 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