Summer time reading

Here’s a list of some of the books I intend to read this summer.  The weather man is predicting a high of 32 degrees for most of the weekend, so I plan to stay inside with a good book or two.  No longer do I force myself to finish a book I start.  If I don’t like it, I simply start another one.  Usually I have two or three books on the go.

None of the books shown below cost me more than $1.35 as I buy them at thrift store and yard sales.  Often I receive more in trade in value than what I originally paid for the book.   What’s on your summer reading list?

A Matter of Chance by Jeanette Halen – covers three decades of a family’s triumphs and sorrows.

The Professor and the Madman – by Simon Winchester.  A story of madness, murder, genius and the making of the Oxford English dictionary. A New York Times Notable book.

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman.  30 years ago two girls disappear and now in the aftermath of a hit and run accident, a middle age woman claims to be the youngest girl.

Doubting Yourself to the Bone by Thomas Trofimuk, another Canadian author.  A love story about the nature of grief.

A Place called Wiregrass by Michael Morris .  A powerful story of saving race, cherished friendship and survival.

We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.   A story of the demise of a perfect family after an incident is hushed up and never spoken of again.

Don’t kiss them good-bye by Aliison Dubois.  The true story of the woman who is the inspiration behind the hit show Medium

The Navigator of New York – by Canadian author Wayne Johnston, author of  The Colony of Unrequited dreams. A fictional account of the lives of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary and their quest for the North Pole.