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Book Round Up: Easy Breezy Summer Reads

Summer is my favorite because it is the perfect time to read easy, fun and simple books. I think I still have a little bit of that "school kid" attitude when it comes to summertime- I really just don't want to do anything too serious. That's why I love reading lovey dovey, mushy books! So with that in mind, I have collected some beach reads that I have read reviews for lately that have really caught my attention!  That's What She Read's Summer Edition of Book Round Up!  The Vacationers   by Emma Straub  From Goodreads: For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go a

Book Review: May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes

After reading May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes, I will never look at my favorite Thanksgiving side dish the same way again.  From Goodreads:   A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation.  Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and a beautiful home in the suburbs of New York City. But Harry, a historian and Nixon scholar, also knows George has a murderous temper, and when George loses control the result is an act of violence so shocking that both brothers are hurled into entirely new lives in which they both must seek absolution. This is one of those books where it's kind of like those links Perez Hilton posts on Facebook. You know it's probably going to be shocking and slightly scary, but you can't help but keep going.  The main character, Harold, is a bruta