Summer Reading recommendations?

[BeachbumAggie]

I'd love some summer reading recs. I don't want to read anything too heavy and depressing, I need some interesting, entertaining, funny, sexy, etc beach reads. A friend loaned me her copy of 50 Shades of Grey-I hear it's midlife chic porn so I'll let ya'll know soon; can't say that's a genre I've ever read before!!!

[Zebraspots]

Jennifer Crusie, Mary Kay Andrews, and Donna Andrews are my favorites for beach reading. I often laugh out loud reading their books!

[Yarmap]

"The Ride of Our Lives" by Mike Lenard. One continious laugh after another.

[BeachbumAggie]

thanks ya'll! I picked up a couple before we headed to Anna Maria, I'll report back on them, they looked and sounded cute. I'll check your rec's out before Seagrove!

[BeachbumAggie]

Ok so I read 50 Shades of Grey, mom porn was probably a bit overstated but it's certainly more kinky and graphic than a romance novel! I didn't devour it like many of my friends did but we're on Anna Maria island for the first time and have been exploring the island, doing a kayak tour and such so I've not spent a lot of time reading. I did finish it and I'm curious about the next book but not so much that I ran out and bought it, I'm just going to bum it from a friend!

[BeachbumAggie]

I'm reading the Art of Racing in the Rain now, I teared up twice and read half of the book in my one hour flight this afternoon!

[debesquire]

Anything by Nora Ephron. I particularly liked I Remember Nothing and I Hate My Neck. Women "of a certain age" particularly enjoy her.
Also anything by Rheta Grimsley Johnson. She has a new book out about Hank Williams. But try one of her older ones. She writes about grief and loss more poignantly than anyone else I've read.
Also Cassandra King (Pat Conroy's wife). She is a couple notches above a romance novel writer but it's still pretty light fare. And enjoyable cause she sets many of her books on 30A and/or south Alabama. Try The Sunday Wife, Making Waves, The Same Sweet Girls, or Queen of Broken Hearts.
Fannie Flag's I Still Dream About You and Susan Gregg Gilmore's The Improbable Life of Bezellia Grove are also very light, perfect beach reads.
There is a new novel out by Rosie Sutton called Helen Keller in Love inspired by a recent biography that suggested Keller had a love affair in her 30s, became secretly engaged and tried to elope with the man she loved.

Hope to be on Seagrove Beach myself in a couple of weeks with my toes in the water, my a-- in the sand, and a book in my hand.

[lili]

Star Island by Hiaasen was a great laugh; Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and sweet, hard to put down romance; The Sorcerer's Houseby Gene Wolfe, a fantasy involving a house haunted by spirtis and strange creatures, played out as a recently released ex con writes letters to his brother. Any of the Alexander McCall Smith Number One Ladies' Detective Agency are completely fun, charming and relaxing reads; perfect for beach.

[BeachbumAggie]

Well, the Art of Racing in the Rain continued with some tears but it was a very good and easy read. Thanks for the recommendations ya'll! I need to start my book search for my Seagrove Reading!!

[bluecat]

I just finished Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress. Good summer read, he has written two more,One Mississippi and Crazy In Alabama.