Happy June Everyone!!
I just got back from school and am trying (desperately) to find a job. While I am currently unemployed and have too much free time for my own good I, hopefully, will be blogging a lot more. When summer comes around everyone worries about their beach bodies and getting a tan, I usually am more concerned about using my free time to find great books, and things that inspire me. I feel especially limited at home, unable to make a mess without my mom breathing down my neck but she'll get over it ;). This particular post will be about the summer books I recommend and plan to read.
Here we go!
I am all about beach reads, but it's hard to find the right one without looking like a dumb bimbo (sorry mom) reading some teen love story. However recently I have found the perfect beach reads that you can whip through in no time and will actually give you a new insight on life. The #1 book I recommend is Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham. I have read this twice and have developed a full on obsession with this woman. Best part of her book is the amazing interior cover art. So smart I definitely will be trying to make my own version of this!!!
Here we go!
I am all about beach reads, but it's hard to find the right one without looking like a dumb bimbo (sorry mom) reading some teen love story. However recently I have found the perfect beach reads that you can whip through in no time and will actually give you a new insight on life. The #1 book I recommend is Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham. I have read this twice and have developed a full on obsession with this woman. Best part of her book is the amazing interior cover art. So smart I definitely will be trying to make my own version of this!!!
YES PLEASE by Amy Poehler is my next recommendation! Another book I whipped through in a day or two. This book was great, I became an even bigger fan of Amy Poehler, she is so funny and the kind of mom I have a feeling I will be when I get there! Definitely a must read.
If you haven't figured it out, I love love love reading biographies and autobiographies. I fell in love with them when we were required to pick a biography/autobiography in eighth grade and do some project that I don't remember. I choose Marilyn Monroe and once I read her book all I wanted to do was find more like it! My third book recommendation is Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns). I mean with a title like that, how could you not want to read this!
My last recommendation is a book I read on spring break in Punta Cana under the cabanna nursing my sunburn. Where'd you go Bernadette by Maria Semple. Not a typical book I would normally choose but I really enjoyed this. I picked it off the shelf because of its awesome book cover. Don't even get me started on 'don't judge a book by it's cover' because I think that is stupid. As an artist, thats all I care about to be honest, why would I choose an ugly book when I can choose a cool looking one? Am I right? .... yes.
If you're not into any of these, you're dumb. No, just kidding, but really give them a try. While y'all are doing that I'll give you a look at my own summer reading list I plan to enjoy! First on the List: The Catcher in the Rye. I know what you're thinking but I have never read this book and I feel like I need to. I've only read like 15 pages but so far I'm pretty into it. I'm going to try to finish it before Judd Apatow's new book comes out. I am so in love with him and his perfect family I want them to adopt me. I think they would take a 22 year old don't you? Anyways, his new book is called: Sick in the Head and I know the day it comes out I will be headed to Barnes and Noble (not a kindle girl I like to have the real thing.)
Next, Mindy Kaling has a new one out, its a collection of essays (like Dunham's) titled, Why Not Me? Unfortunately this doesn't come out until September. In the mean time I'm thinking about reading Steve Martin's Novel, an Object of Beauty. The cover is really nice and so it Steve, so I'm going to give it a try! Finally, I have this weird little thing with Sophie Kinsella books where I feel like I must read them all (not including the Shopaholic series, even thought I love that movie.) Not to bash her, but I definitely don't feel myself becoming any more intelligent while reading her novels but they are so funny and i've been reading them for about 8 years. She has a new one called, Finding Audrey that I will definitely be checking out. This is all I am going to post, knowing I have big goals to read all summer, but will probably be watching TV. Hopefully you are doing bigger and better things!
Next, Mindy Kaling has a new one out, its a collection of essays (like Dunham's) titled, Why Not Me? Unfortunately this doesn't come out until September. In the mean time I'm thinking about reading Steve Martin's Novel, an Object of Beauty. The cover is really nice and so it Steve, so I'm going to give it a try! Finally, I have this weird little thing with Sophie Kinsella books where I feel like I must read them all (not including the Shopaholic series, even thought I love that movie.) Not to bash her, but I definitely don't feel myself becoming any more intelligent while reading her novels but they are so funny and i've been reading them for about 8 years. She has a new one called, Finding Audrey that I will definitely be checking out. This is all I am going to post, knowing I have big goals to read all summer, but will probably be watching TV. Hopefully you are doing bigger and better things!