Happy June 1st! Summer is officially here (for me anyways…hopefully it will be soon for you if it isn’t already!) and I’m ready to squeeze in as many fun beach reads as I can. I’m really excited about our June selections. Y’all always request slightly older titles so the waitlist at the library isn’t a mile long. Both of these books are from 2019 and both have a summer setting and theme. I cannot wait to read these with y’all.
Just to refresh your memory, May’s books were Every Summer After and The Younger Wife. You can read about them here.
This month we are reading:
Summer Hours by Amy Mason Doan (contemporary fiction/romance)
and
The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen (contemporary fiction/mystery)
You can order both of these books here.
Summer Hours by Amy Mason Doan
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Vividly told and unforgettable, Summer Hours is a sweeping story charting a secret relationship, the summer it unravels, and the sparkling reunion a decade later as one woman comes to accept the choices of her youth and rediscovers love and life in the process.
Thirty-three-year-old Becc Reardon has tried hard to forget the all-consuming relationship that upended her life one summer in college. But when a mutual friend’s wedding means road-tripping up the California coast with a man from the past, she can’t resist one last chance at a reunion.
Becc plots every moment of the drive, careful not to upset the distant, wary man beside her who feels like a stranger. Yet each gorgeous mile is a reminder of their memories together—the infinite nights at beach bonfires, secret mid-day movie sessions—and soon enough, the funny, adventurous person she used to know comes alive, and they both give in to the celebratory mood of the weekend.
But as they near the location of their long-ago flameout, bringing old heartbreaks into sharper focus, Becc must decide if those dazzling hours they once shared are worth fighting for before the trip ends and they’re lost forever. Set in the mid ’90s and 2008, Summer Hours is about love, female coming of age, the power of nostalgia, and what happens when you realize you haven’t become the person you’d always promised to be.
The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen
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It’s been a busy—and expensive—few years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Gracie, whom they affectionately call Little Green. Matt, a Manhattan lawyer, has just been offered a partnership, and Elise’s equestrian ambitions as a competitive dressage rider may finally vault her into the Olympics. But her long absences from home and endless hours of training have strained their relationships nearly to the breaking point.
Now they’re up in the Adirondacks, preparing to sell the valuable lakefront cabin that’s been in Matt’s family for generations. Both he and Elise agree it’s time to let it go. But as they navigate the memories the cabin holds—and come face to face with Matt’s teenage crush, now an unnervingly attractive single mother living right next door—Gracie disappears without a trace.
Faced with the possibility that they’ll never see their daughter again, Elise and Matt struggle to come to terms with what their future may bring. The fate of the family property, the history of this not-so-tiny town, and the limits of Matt and Elise’s love for each other are inextricably bound up with Gracie’s disappearance. Everything for the Sorenson family is about to change—the messy tangle of their past, the harrowing truth of their present, and whether or not their love will survive a parent’s worst nightmare.
Who’s excited about this month’s selections? I can’t wait to get started reading! If you want more info on how to join our online book club, check out this post. You can also join our Facebook group to chat about the books with others.
Check out our past monthly selections:
January 2022 LaLa Life Book Club Selection
February 2022 LaLa Life Book Club Selections
March 2022 LaLa Life Book Club Selections
