{"id":2117,"date":"2018-06-05T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2018-06-03T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T15:48:28","slug":"summer-reads-for-women-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/summer-reads-for-women-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reads for Women &#8211; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PBS.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently PBS has compiled a list of 100 popular books from readers across the USA. It makes a good starting point for summer reading. With the process of requesting the titles, PBS gives you a chance to vote <em>every day<\/em> between now and the coming fall for titles you found worth reading. Join in the fun; copy their top 100 and read away! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/greatamericanread\">www.pbs.org\/greatamericanread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following are partial lists of mostly new books. You might also want to check the New York Times and other newspaper and magazine book lists.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Amazon list <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beach House books by Mary Alice Munroe\u00a0 (beach read)<\/p>\n<p>For Reasons Unknown by Michael Wood (crime novel)<\/p>\n<p>A Heat of the Moment Thing\u00a0 by Maggie Le Page (humor\/satire)<\/p>\n<p>The Summer Book\u00a0 by Tove Jansson (gentle humor\/observations)<\/p>\n<p>Camino Island\u00a0 by John Grisham<\/p>\n<p>Saving Sophie\u00a0 by Sam Carrington (psychological thriller)<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Goodhousekeeping New Books for Summer 2018 <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer<\/p>\n<p>Tangerine\u00a0 by Christine Mangan (drama like Gone Girl)<\/p>\n<p>Circe\u00a0 by Madeline Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (updated Greek classic)<\/p>\n<p>Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley (essays)<\/p>\n<p>Love and Ruin by Paula McLain (another Hemingway relationship)<\/p>\n<p>Kintsugi Wellness: The Japanese Art of Nourishing Mind, Body and Spirit by Candice Kumani<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Goodreads Book Club Lists<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find hundreds of books on dozens of lists; everything from Oprah to Book Club lists and many more ideas across 5 pages of groups sharing their ideal reads (back as far as 2012). Happy hunting!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me know about the books and book lists that prove to be of interest to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"box\">Win a $20 VISA card. Write a review of <em>Tasman &#8211; An Innocent Convict&#8217;s Struggle for Freedom.<\/em> Post it on Amazon, Goodreads, and Facebook and be entered for a random drawing held quarterly in 2018. The next drawing is June 30th. Details on the door hangers and on <a href=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/genrequery.pdf\">www.tasman\/paddyeger.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS.org Recently PBS has compiled a list of 100 popular books from readers across the USA. It makes a good starting point for summer reading. With the process of requesting the titles, PBS gives you a chance to vote every day between now and the coming fall for titles you found worth reading. Join in the fun; copy their top 100 and read away! www.pbs.org\/greatamericanread The following are partial lists of mostly new books. You might also want to check the New York Times and other newspaper and magazine book lists. Amazon list Beach House books by Mary Alice Munroe\u00a0&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,268,253],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-random-drawing","category-recreational-reading","tag-book-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}