I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.
When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.