Learn InStyle: Summertime Reads

Well it's embarrassing how long it's been since I've written a blog entry. But it's summertime and I've got more free time than I know what to do with so I'm picking up where I left off. I've been reading a lot this summer and thought I would share some the books I've read in case you're looking for a summertime/vacation read.

I started off by reading the books on the "best sellers" list and then started reading some books that were best sellers that would also be made into movies soon. "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" was definitely different than what I thought it would be. It was strange because it wasn't set up in chapter form it was just three parts. There were lots of emails and letters scattered throughout the book as Bernadette is telling the story of her sort of crazy mother. Honestly, I got to the end of it and wasn't all that thrilled. On the other hand, Gillian Flynn's book "Gone Girl" has been one of my favorite reads this summer. It was just the right amount of suspenseful and mysterious. I was not expecting the ending of the book and I'm curious to see if the movie that comes out in October has the same ending.

"The Art Of Racing In The Rain" is from a dogs perspective which was different for me. The dogs owner races cars. His owner eventually falls in love and has a child and it's a sweet story to hear from a dogs perspective, for a dog lover like myself. The ending was sad but sweet all at the same time. "The Best of Me" I feel like you can never go wrong with a good old Nicholas Sparks novel. This is also being made into a movie. It's the typical long lost love story (rich girl…poor guy) with a twist.

Emily Giffin books always put me on edge because her main characters do stupid things that make me irritated the whole time. For some reason I still enjoy reading them. "Love the One You're With" is about a married woman who runs into an old serious boyfriend of hers. She's eventually works alongside him on a project and begins to wonder if she made the wrong choice. And of course "The Fault In Our Stars" everybody has heard of it and probably read it. A book about a young girl who has cancer and meets and falls in love with a boy at her support group. It was a sweet story and I already saw the movie and hysterically bawled my eyes out.