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Our Summer Book Guide BOOK BITES
Summer reading season brings endless possibilities for literary escape, whether you're lounging poolside or retreating to a cabin in the woods. Our latest roundup of recommendations spans across genres, proving that summer reads can be whatever your heart desires.
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Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of Book Bites. I'm Susie.
Speaker 2:I'm.
Speaker 1:Kylie. This is our mini -series, so it's a little bit different every time.
Speaker 2:And this time we're gonna do our summer read recommendations, which I love. A good summer read, especially campy.
Speaker 1:Mine are kind of all over the place, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, I did some romance, I did some thriller, regular old fiction Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm going to sound biased because a couple of minor ones we've done episodes on, but hey, they're good, okay, and yeah, if I was a big camper I would probably read them when I was camping.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, okay, I'll go first. Okay, I would probably read them when I was a kid. Yeah, true, okay, I'll go first. Okay, let me see here. Okay. So my first one I'm going to recommend is Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez. Abby Jimenez is probably one of my favorite authors. I really like her stuff. She is a romance author, but her characters have a lot of depth in different character developments and they have like heavy real, real world issues, which is really nice. So I really like her. So Just for the Summer was one, and then also Part of your World is another. So they're both a little bit different, but both are kind of summery vibes. To me Sounds like I need to read them.
Speaker 2:Oh, you would love Abby Jimenez. Okay, I really think you would have. I read any of her books. No, okay.
Speaker 1:But I really like her. But I will soon.
Speaker 2:She says, I did just get her new one, so maybe I'll throw that in our recommendations Anyway.
Speaker 1:Mine was the one we did for your book club. All the Dangerous Things by. Stacey Cunningham. That was an excellent book.
Speaker 2:It was good.
Speaker 1:It's a thriller a whodunit a. Is she losing her mind or isn't she? That was so great.
Speaker 2:And it's also based in North Carolina.
Speaker 1:I think yeah, somewhere where there's cool Spanish moss on trees.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is kind of like summertime but very serious. But it gives like summery vibes for a thriller, for sure my next one. I don't shut up about this Summer, I turn pretty Okay.
Speaker 1:No, because there's someone else that I. The Raising Heights podcast. Tori, yeah, Shout out if you guys watch this. I love you guys. Tori is watching that and she's obsessed with it and I don't know if she started the books or not, but she keeps saying like people need to watch this, like you need and I, she's been trying to get me to watch it. I have no excuse for why I haven't.
Speaker 2:I am obsessed with the Summer I Turned Pretty. I fucking love it. I love the books, I love the show. I have a t-shirt and I'm not really a big like merch person, but I do have a t-shirt. The Summer I Turned Pretty is definitely YA, but it had me in such like a fixation of it. I read all three books within like a weekend. I was obsessed with it, and I'm obsessed with the show too, and I'm team Conrad till the day I die. I'll just say that, but that's because I've read the books. If you haven't read the books and you're team Jeremiah, maybe change your mind. Just a thought. So this time I already turned pretty Because it's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 1:Magnolia Parks.
Speaker 2:Fair.
Speaker 1:If you want something entertaining messy.
Speaker 2:I'm new to the book world.
Speaker 1:I wanted to hate it so bad. I wanted to hate it so much that I was like ruining my good. You did hate it for a while and like, oh yeah, it's getting good guys, Just get through it. It's so good I do enjoy it.
Speaker 2:Okay. So my next one I'm going to say you shouldn't have come here. This is like a she's from the city, she takes time off from work and she goes and stays in this Airbnb, on like this farm, and she creates kind of a connection with the owner of the Airbnb but he becomes kind of obsessive with her and then he feels like she's hiding things and stuff like that. So good, I love this book, it was so good, and I love the ending, um, but so like it's kind of summertime feel, but thriller.
Speaker 1:I forgot to write the author name down, but another one we've done meet the Royals. Oh yeah, I almost said that.
Speaker 2:That was a really fun another one we've done Meet the Royals.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I almost did that. That was a really fun one and it took place in the summer. That was a cute. Like talk about a fucking rom-com. Yeah, like, just if you just want easy breezy, yes, loved it. It's fun. A little bit of drama, yeah, that was great.
Speaker 2:And like they go boating and yeah, yeah, I really like that book. My next one is going to be Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Senner. This one is like she goes on this wilderness retreat kind of sort of, and it's after she has been divorced for a year and she goes on this retreat and her brother's best friend ends up being on it and it's much more about, like her finding herself and feeling more confident in the things that she does. No, but there's also obviously a romantic connection there. Yes, but like I really didn't feel like that was what the story was about. It was more about her like trying these different things and there's like at one point she wakes up in the meadow and it's like morning and there's all these um deer like in the field and she. It's really good and I gave it five stars and I loved it. I love the book. Um, it's definitely much more of like a feel good, okay, type book.
Speaker 1:So sometimes you need that too. Yeah, I loved it. My next recommendation is a book I haven't read so I don't want to like. I don't know, but I'm very interested in it A Ship of Bones and Teeth by Karina Hale I don't think I've heard of that. It's a fantasy book, like from what I've watched videos on TikTok and stuff. As people said, it's like a gothic, dark little mermaid. Oh yeah, okay, and I guess it's like a little spicy and it was getting a lot. I was like Susie said spice.
Speaker 1:I want to be a pro to this world I want to be where the gothic dark romance is.
Speaker 2:That's funny. That sounds good. We should put that on our list, yeah, okay. So let me think here. Okay, so my next one is going to be the Bones Beneath my Skin by TJ Klune. This was my first TJ Klune book. I loved it. I loved him.
Speaker 2:It's based in the Pacific Northwest. This guy's like in a cabin and it kind of has a YA feel to it, but then it's definitely not. Okay, a YA feel to it, but then it's definitely not. So his parents ended up dying at the cabin, one by choice, one not by choice, if you get my drift here. So he ends up staying at this cabin and this man and this little girl come and the man is trying to protect the little girl you don't know why, but they're like on the run and then he ends up helping them escape the government maybe a little alien situation, not much of a spoiler. You find that out pretty quickly. But and then, and then the guy, and then the guy who's trying to protect the little girl and him. I wanted them to get together so bad, and then they did and I loved it. So it does have a little bit of romance in it.
Speaker 2:But ate that book up. That was my first ever TJ Klune and I was obsessed with it. I loved it. I love alien stuff anyway, and I love romance. So best of both worlds there. Okay, yeah, stuff anyway and I love romance.
Speaker 1:So best of both worlds there. Okay, yeah, and it's like cabin, pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2:To us it's like summer, so, okay, do you have any other ones? Nope, okay, so I'll just kind of steam run these. Hmm, that's not the word. I'm looking for Steamroll Steam.
Speaker 1:Speed run.
Speaker 2:Speed run. There we go. Okay, so I did. Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks. This is like classic Nicholas Sparks Tragic, will they?
Speaker 1:Won't they.
Speaker 2:Running from her past?
Speaker 1:Not even that he's a good guy.
Speaker 2:He is a great guy. It's not that simple. He's such a great guy. It's not that simple guy. But it's not that simple, suzy. Okay, so they meet and she is recently no, she's not even divorced yet but she like broke up with her boyfriend, kind of sorta, and they meet at the beach house and he's a safari guide and he has a kid who lives away, and they meet and they fall in love. But then she, her boyfriend, ends up proposing to her secretly, or not secretly, surprisingly, oh God, and it's this whole thing and it's all very tragic, and they end up like coming back together 20 years later 20, 30, 40 years later Long time later, I know, and so Nicholas Spark.
Speaker 2:This is 40 years later, long time later, I know, and so Nicholas Sparks. This is a real place where there's like in a mailbox on the beach and people write letters or they'll put stories in there.
Speaker 1:I've heard about those on hiking trails.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. So Nicholas Sparks found a envelope of all these letters and drawings and all this stuff and he ended up finding the guy who put them in there and it was like a real love story that had happened, and so he wrote the book about it. Oh my gosh, it's so good talk about the epitome of no I read this in one day.
Speaker 2:I would do. It was so, so good. And I know nicholas sparks is pretty good, but this was so good, it was so good. And I know Nicholas Sparks is pretty good, but this was so good, it was so good, I loved it. Okay, anyway, 10 out of 10, 10 out of 10. It's not fair, though, and that's all I'll say about it, because of course, it's a Nicholas Sparks book, so it wasn't fair and I'm still upset about it. Next, I have um, the people we meet on vacation, and this is by Emily Henry. Five stars Love this. They're making it a movie. It's about friends who go on vacation every year, and it's like for 10 years straight, and it's a boy and a girl. Something happens on their last vacation Uh-oh, haven't talked in two years. And then she convinces him to go on like one last trip together, and, yeah, love so. Um. Cabin at the end of the world by paul trembley. This one is cabin in the woods and but not spooky, but not cabin in the woods.
Speaker 2:It is spooky. So it's based on the movie um cabin at the end of the world and it's this family and they go and they stay in this cabin and this group of people come and they have like weapons and stuff and they're like you need to listen. Um, the world is ending and essentially like one of you has to die in order to save it and it's like this whole thing like haha you think I'm stupid yeah, it's definitely like is it real?
Speaker 2:is it not kind of like culty, weird vibe? Oh hell, no, yeah, it was really good, though, recommend that. And then my last one. You would love this.
Speaker 2:Um, this is called things we never got over by lucy score. This is pretty popular, but it's this woman who ends up calling off her wedding and then she goes back to her, her hotel or no. She gets a call from her sister or something. I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 2:I read this years ago, but anyway, her sister ends up leaving her kid for her sister to take care of, and so she ends up taking the girl and they end up moving to this small town and there's, you know, the burly guy in the town. She ends up staying at the cabin next door too, and it's like small town feels of like everyone coming together to help her out, and then he's, you know, like doesn't want anything to do with her, but then, like you know, gets all these guys together to help fix up her yard. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely like mmm, anyway, but then it has like some family drama mixed in with like her sister is kind of a junkie and isn't a great mother and, yeah, stole money from her and took off and oh I don't know anything about sisters that abandon you and pretend you never existed.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's my last one, don't cut that.
Speaker 1:I love that.
Speaker 2:I gave that five stars that's the one I have to read it.
Speaker 1:That sounds good, it is smutty, it is give me that?
Speaker 2:give me that. Right after I had bash justin's grandma and I joined a book club together and that's what you read and it was the choice that was picked in here. Here I am at book club and Justin's grandma goes. I could have went with a little less of those sex scenes and I wanted to die.
Speaker 1:That is so funny.
Speaker 2:But she watches everything. We love Grandma Linda and she doesn't judge.
Speaker 1:You have the coolest grandma, Justin. You have the coolest grandma ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I was like me just had a baby. I'm like I don't know anything about that. I'm the virgin mary. I know nothing of what they discuss, so anywho, it's really good. I've read it twice, so dang yeah. If you don't enjoy the smut, maybe maybe not for you, but okay, we I gave you.
Speaker 1:This is a smut safe place. This is a no judging smut zone. Yeah.
Speaker 2:But we have variety here.
Speaker 1:Yes, we are not just a spicy book. We got a little bit of everything.
Speaker 2:That's not it. Maybe try the. Well the other one, maybe try a thriller. Yeah, okay, all in all, pretty good Book Bites. Yeah, enjoy your summer reading. Yeah, Let us know what you're reading.
Speaker 1:Yeah, please Like we actually would love to hear about it Rex Give us those recommendations. And, yeah, stay tuned for more episodes we have some fun stuff for the summer.
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