What I'm Reading

Being obsessed with beach reads and the island of Nantucket, even now with winter threatening, I jumped at the chance to purchase Nancy Thayer's Beachcombers when I saw it at a used book sale. As always, I loved being transported to that magical place. It is a story about family, sisters in particular, and I loved nearly all of the characters and was eager to find out what would happen to them. They all experience some sense of love and loss, and it's about rebounding when life knocks you down. I don't doubt that Nantucket has all the healing properties that this book portends.

xoxo,

bex

What I'm Reading

Hurricane Irene gave me the downtime to read another book, and I went back to the setting of Nantucket with Belonging by Nancy Thayer. I am seeing a pattern with my Nantucket reads! What I love about books like these is that they let me visualize some of the things I wish I had in my life - a dynamic and successful career, the financial freedom to buy my own home (a second home on Nantucket would be great, too) . . . just the ability to create the life you dream about. I think that's why I am so drawn to this setting - it spurs life fantasies!

Do you have a favorite setting for books you read? Inquiring minds want to know!

xoxo,

bex

What I'm Reading

I have revisited some specific things in my summer reading -- a lot of YA books and books that take place at the beach or on an island, specifically Nantucket. As I've mentioned before, I love reading Elin Hilderbrand but there is another author who works the setting of Nantucket that I am just now discovering and I am so excited I did! In reading Summer House by Nancy Thayer, I was again transported from my stuffy, cramped, landlocked apartment to the open air, bright skies, and sea breezes that come from summer on the island.

The book explores generations of one family and how family comes together in different ways, for different occasions. There's nothing like the differences and tensions within family on which to build conflict, so as a reader -- and a writer -- there is a lot of ripe material to puzzle through.

I can't wait to pick up another of her books.

xoxo,

bex