Was that the summer?

... I really hope it wasn't. Because I'm not going to be particularly thrilled if that was the only burst of hot weather we get this season.

Please God, I would really love some more sunshine; not any of that irritating heat where you feel like you are actually being cooked, but you know, the kind of weather where you just wake up knowing that the day ahead is going to be good. That kind of sunshine.

This musician/YouTuber, Alex Day, who I follow wrote this summery song called "Good Morning Sunshine." Check it out. In my mind now it's only ever summer.
Since the end of my exams I have taken to the role of "Professional Procrastinator", I have actually started reading again. For fun. I know right? I had genuinely forgotten what reading for fun was like. There's something about when you are told to read that just makes you want to do anything but read. That's true for a lot of things I think. But it is really inconvenient when you are doing a degree in English Literature, and the majority of your degree is focused on reading. Suddenly push ups and sit ups seem like the best forms of entertainment in the world. And when that fails, there's always The Big Bang Theory  and a stockpile of chocolate to ease the pain. Desperate times... But to be fair,  I am hoping to compile a list of new, inventive ways to procrastinate for the future. Ideas are most welcome.

It's been such a long time since I chose the book that I wanted to read, and I'm determined to get through a list of twenty six books this summer. Which shouldn't be hard. These books have been on my shelf for months, if not years, and they deserve to be read. Which is why I rearranged my bookshelf this week in order of genre and then alphabetised the lot. I love being a geek.

A couple of days ago, I tweeted that a person should read book that breaks a little bit of their heart, and I completely stand by that statement. The best books you can read are the ones where you are engaged with the story and characters. There's probably more mushy, literary theory I could insert here about it, but I think you get it. And literary theory drives me mad. If I have to read another essay about how I am living in fake reality I will probably lose my mind.

One book that I would thoroughly recommend is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I've read this three times so far, and each time I've basically cried my way through, and the book is equally funny and tragic, and it's the balance between the two that makes the novel so brilliant. So read it.

But if that isn't your thing, then I'm currently in the middle of The Hunger Games series, and those books are amazing too.

Truly though, read a book this summer that challenges you.