I think you can probably guess that Summer is my favorite time of year. I love the potential of what the day can hold. I can plant flowers to surround my home, enjoy a garden, bike, rollerblade, or sit on the deck with a wonderful read. I am a sun girl.
I like my summer books to usually be centered around summer topics – sun, beaches, travel, friendships – and my books average between 180 – 270 pages because my attention span is not long as I am usually running from one thing to the next, trying to breathe it all in.
SO…. Check out this monster that arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Seriously – it is almost bigger than Coffee Cup and my coffee cup is no little teacup.
I don’t recall requesting this read and am not even sure if it is a fit for me. I am reading the paperwork that came with it and I am scratching my head as to why I received this….
BUT – here is a sign of fall for me…. it is a chunkster – almost 600 pages and instead of being freaked out by its size, I am intrigued. Summer means short fun lighter reads…. but fall is like book nesting to me. I want a book that I can sink into for a week or more. Larger books start to look appealing. I want characters that I will enjoy so much that I don’t want to be done with them in 300 pages…. no I want them to carry me to 500+….
I don’t want summer to pass. I feel like I am just getting into it and have not had enough afternoons on my deck with iced tea, a book and my sunglasses…. I have not had enough evenings where I can still be wearing shorts and listen to the crickets, nor enough bike rides, hiking, roller blading, and I have not been to the beach even once this year…
Yet if it fall, I am happy to share cooler nights with a larger book, hot cocoa replacing iced tea and a blanket to keep out the chill as I read and read and read….
And for some reason….. fall makes me think if I were to require a pig, this would be the time.
Hah! Couldn’t resist that! 😛
Does your reading tend to change with the seasons? Do certain books speak to you at certain times?
*Oh one more thing… I am guest posting over at Trisha’s Eclectic/Eccentric blog today. Doing a little blog housekeeping while she is enjoying some family time. If you have a moment stop by and check out the post – but oh – do not judge me for the insane idea Trisha and I came up with to make this post fun. 😉
Book Journey 
I was doing a little blog housekeeping (and earlier I did some actual housekeeping in my bathrooms, which were getting cluttered)—okay, TMI!—and I saw your Morning Meanderings on my RSS that I have on almost all my blogs. Thoughts of fall…hmm.
I wrote something about fall yesterday, too, over at Seasons, http://seasonsbylaurelrain.blogspot.com, which you might want to check out. I changed to my fall header, too.
I actually LOVE fall. Summers in the Central Valley are much too hot to really enjoy. We all flee to the coast or LA or somewhere cooler. But the fall, with the crisp leaves and cooler temperatures…yes, definitely the time to read those cozy books.
I have a couple of Maeve Binchy books just waiting on my stacks for fall nesting. You’re right…it’s the time for chunksters.
Its in the air Laurel – I am not ready…. but the bigger books are starting to look appealing again 😀
When I saw your post title I was surprised — and jealous. I have been seeing several people saying they’re feeling fall in the air, and it’s nowhere near fall here. I’ll be glad for the lack of heat, though.
My reading doesn’t really change with the seasons, at least that I’ve noticed.
No color changes yet Hannah – the colors are fantastic here when they do change, especially up North. Now that’s a bike ride I would like to do… 🙂
Oh, definitely!
Fall is coming to Michigan too. But you wouldn’t know it right now with the heat wave and humidity that we’re currently experiencing. I feel like you do about nesting in the fall/winter with a huge book. Not sure why that is but I so enjoy how my reading habits change a bit with the seasons too!
I need a pig too!
Staci, I think for me it is the fact that I am not drawn to the outside as much as the weather gets cooler and a book becomes much easier to really fully engage into all it has to offer.
(if it was up to me I would have summer all year around – but then I would probably never read a large book :D)
Oh, I definitely know how seasonal reading goes. In winter I CRAVE long books. Epic fantasy, historical fiction tomes, gimme!! I also really like reading mysteries in fall. And, hah, I started reading The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen but stopped myself because I want to save it for winter.
Since it’s summer I am gorging myself on Y.A. Especially dystopian YA.
I have read quite a bit of YA this summer April, but i do enjoy the genre. 😀 Historical fiction is a huge draw for me too and cant wait to sink into the two latest Philippa Gregory books that are out.
I read more history when it’s cooler, and after this too hot and humid summer I’m really looking forward to the chilly nights and pleasant days. Plus we live on top of a mountain in NE PA so the fall colors are outstanding. That’s when I sit outside and read. I have a pile of more serious books just waiting.
Barbara I bet the colors where you are really are fantastic!
Winter for me brings mysteries to my books to be read 😀
Signs of fall?? Crazy! (it’s still hovering around 100 degrees here, hotter than it’s been all summer. I want it to be fall now.)
Its still hot during the day Amanda but I can feel it in the evenings…. just a coolness in the air that smells like fall.
I bet you are just roasting with that 100 degrees! I like heat but day after day of that would be exhausting! 😀
the only changes for me is the rotation in my piles…i keep acquiring and they keep needing to be the “next” one!
Oh my gosh Diana I so do that too! I see a review on a blog for a book that i have and I get excited about it so i pull it off the shelf – and then there it sits. GAH!
Wow, that is a chunkster. I’m all over the place with my reading. I’m not sure I tend to read lighter books during the summer or not, I should think about that. Lately I am just glad to be reading at all (LOL)!
Kathleen the book was stuck in my mailbox. I mean stuck. I had to look pretty funny fighting the mailbox to get it out – and I bet there is a pretty disgruntled mail worker who fought to put it in the box too. I mean it was a tight fit! 😀
I like books no larger than 250 pages.We don’t have many really cold days where I live in Florida, but we have a few and your post got me thinking about trying to read a few of my chunksters when the cold does hit. I’ve had Under The Dome by Stephen King for a while, but at 1074 pages, I keep putting it off. I hate doing that since he is one of my all time favorite authors. Thanks to you, I think I’ll pull it out and wait for a cold streak.
Vicki, 1074 pages!!! WOW! Yes, the colder weather keeps me inside so it is easier to hunker down with a book – and I feel less guilty about reading. In the summer I feel like I should always be doing things…. weeding, mowing, watering, biking… in the Minnesota winters I have no problem pretending I am trapped in by the snow and therefore – must read. 😛
It’s felt like autumn has been on the way in England for about the last month 😦
I tend to like more gothicy and thriller type books in the winter and chicklit-type in the summer.
I like a good thriller Book Whisperer 😀
I know…there is nothing like a Fallish Sunday afternoon…with football on and a book and a quilt and tea…and chili simmering in the slow cooker…I think I love every season.
I tolerate them all Patty except winter. Winter and I just do not mesh. I dont like snow and I cant stand the cold. I go from my car to work to my car to home. Thats about it 😀
Don’t talk about fall yet…summer is definitely my favorite time of the year too. I think I read the longer books in the summer.
I dont want to Jo-Jo! I want it to stay too 😀
Wow, that is a whopper book! Like you, I am a sun girl and enjoy reading the summer themed books featuring reunions at the beach and beaches on the book covers. Come on down to Charlotte, it will feel like summer until at least late September! I am dreading the end of summer because all of my hummingbird friends will be heading back to their winter home. I enjoy them so much. 🙂
Jill we usually get a warm front again that carries through September too (fingers crossed!) My friend Sandi who runs a camp says they have already seen mice trying to get in – that is either a sign of a a hard winter coming, or the fact that spring hit so early and everything has been ahead of schedule this year that they are confused. I hope it is the latter 😀
While I don’t want fall to be here yet, I totally agree with you that fall is the perfect season for a chunkster of a book!
I agree Amused – I like summer just the way it is (even if it is pouring rain right now as I type). 😀
Our winters are LONG so I am in no hurry to get there.
I’m intrigued by that book. It looks like it has a nice cover. I need to look it up and see what it’s about. I do not read lighter fare in the summer. My reading pretty much stays the same year round, except for the holidays, when I usually read mostly Christmas books. My boys started school yesterday so I’m in full fall mode already. I even added an autumn background to my blog!
Michelle it looks like it has something ot do with Freud. I will peek into it out of curiosity, who knows it may surprise me. 🙂
Also (I meant to say, but then forgot by the time I got to the comment box): That book looks really good! I’ve wanted to read it since I first heard about it (or maybe when I first saw the cover).
Really Hannah? I am going to give it a try but am not much of a romance reader. I still have a few more weeks before I move to the chunksters. 😀
Read the Amazon blurb on A CURABLE ROMANTIC. Sounds interesting.
My reading does change with the season, or my mood. Summer is such a fragmented time (well everything seems to be fragmented all the time lately) I am sort of reading “junk food books” – quick Harlequin Intrigues, Historicals, or Inspirationals. There are some good authors writing for them and the books are short enough to be able to concentrate on and finish. I also do more anthologies. Again, stories short enough to grab and finish in a day or so. They all work when things are crazy and I don’t have much time to read or concentrate.
I look forward to winter when curling up with a book and something warm by the fire is such a treat.
Thanks Pat, I did check out Amazons thoughts on the book. Hmmmm….. I will have to read it and see what i think. 🙂
The only thing good about the cold long winters for me is the books I get to meet! 😀