beach bag book…

hot dogs for lunch…

hangin’ at the Red Wing Water Park with Gracie

bliss!

I wanted to share a few photos from our day, and some of my favorite beach bag reads. Some of the selections are fairly new, and others have been around for awhile. If you’re anything like me, you just can’t seem to get enough books in the summer. Enjoy!

Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand

Big Machine by Victor Lavalle

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarity

The Astral by Kate Christenson

The Help by Katharyn Stockett

The Small Hotel by Robert Butler

Open House by Elizabeth Berg

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

Sister by Rosamund Lupton

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Fortune’s Rocks by Anita Shreve

Beach Glass by Anita Shreve

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Blue Bistro by Elin Hilderbrand

The Borrower by Rebecca Makki

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue

What are your favorite Summer reads?

~Melissa