“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” -Oscar Wilde
Summer is (almost) here and reading specific books is something I aim to be intentional about in each season. I love to compile a list and get through as many as I’m able. Making a reading list helps me with decision fatigue when I finish a book. Amen. When I don’t have a book list at the ready, completing a book feels hard and almost not worth it because I don’t know what I’m going to read next.
As a momma of three with one on the way, reading happens in the nooks and crannies of the day. Sometimes in the early morning before the kids wake, sometimes when they are playing happily on the swing set, many times after they have gone to bed at night. Reading is something I enjoy, so it is a priority for me to fit it in when I can. Maybe it isn’t for you and that’s a-okay.
Since Baby #4 will be arriving in early August (and reading will inevidtably come to a startling halt), my list isn’t as long as in the past. Here is what I am hoping to read this summer:
Nonfiction
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Fiction
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate
If you make a book list, what is on it for this summer? I am always looking for more to add to my list!