Summer Begins!

Year 26 is in the books!  Wow!  Now, summer begins!  A summer of reading begins!

May I share my reading plans?

• ARA Book Club:  New!  In this one, we meet and read books with authors...LIVE!...in a private Facebook group page.  This summer, we are reading Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling.
• BHS Reads:  After some discussion, we have settled on our first read:  A Court of Thorns and Roses, the first of a trilogy, each of which contains a retelling of some fairy tale.  Those in the club are discussing summer reads...not sure if we will finish the trilogy or choose other titles.  
• Paper Chase Book Club:  June's book is Death Comes to Pemberly.  Then in July I host book club with the novel Lowcountry Boil, the first in a series.  I do so enjoy meeting with this group of ladies and chatting about books.
• Book Love Book Club:  Penny Kittle is hosting an online book club, during which four books will be read.  So far, 400+ from across the land have signed up.  Cool!
• Online Bible Cafe Book Club:  Each month, this group reads a fiction and a nonfiction book.  I have purchased the three fiction:  Sarah Price's First Impressions, Lauraine Snelling's Someday Home, and Jane Kirkpatrick's This Road We Traveled.
• NCTE Reads Book Club:  For the first time, NCTE is hosting a summer read during the month of June of Teaching Reading with YA Literature by Jennifer Buehler.
• Talks with Teachers:  Each summer, this site host three books (fiction, nonfiction, and a book for teachers).  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead will be this summer's fiction read.  

Have to stop!  No more!  Well...we'll see!

Now, for the total...and how many do I own and still need to purchase?

• 15 total...with more to be added.  Hummm...can I do this?
• 11 purchased
• 4 to buy (see last two bullets)

With all this in mind, I need to complete my current read of When the Morning Glory Blooms for the Online Bible Cafe Book Club's May read.  

Just writing this excites me...for I dearly love books...and has given me an idea...or two...for our faculty book club.  The trend seems to be to host book clubs using a group on Facebook; five of the above seven use this format (mine other two meet face-to-face...and that is a beautiful thing), but time often is our enemy with hectic schedules and such.  BHS Reads already has a Facebook group page....hummmm...:)

What are you reading this summer?  Diving into a To Be Read pile (mine just grew!)?  Happy summer...and happy reading!