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    Top Ten Tuesday: beach reads!

    Top Ten TuesdayIt’s been quite a while since I’ve linked up for Top Ten Tuesday! This week we’re talking about our favorite beach reads. I’m not a big beach person—we don’t have a lot in the traditional sense where I live—but I am all about lying in the hammock in my backyard with a good book and a tall glass of iced tea!

    I don’t really stick to any particular genre or style of book when picking out beach reads. They just have to be so compelling you can’t put them down, and they should be something that’s not too serious—no nonfiction exposes or tear-jerking fiction. Also, they should preferably be in paperback. Hardcovers are too heavy for casual summer lounging!

    So, here are ten books I plan to tote out to the hammock this summer, and quite possible devour in a single gulp. I’m sure there are many, many more to be found in the depths of my TBR list but these are just some of the more recent, off-the-top-of-my-head titles.

    TTT: beach reads edition!

    The Three, by Sarah Lotz // Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch // Tell the Wolves I’m Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt // And I Darken, by Kiersten White // We Could Be Beautiful, by Swan Huntley // The Sister, by Louise Jensen // This is a Book, by Demetri Martin // The Hanged Man, by P.N. Elrod // Norwegian by Night, by Derek B. Miller // Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson

    I’ve linked here to the Goodreads pages for these books so you can look up the blurbs and add them to your own TBR lists! If you have any other beach reads you think I might like, be sure to leave me a comment and let me know!

  • music

    Music Monday: Electric Love

    “Electric Love” got massive airplay here a while back but for a long time, for the life of me, I couldn’t think of who Garrett Borns sounded like to me, musically and vocally. I just knew his music was getting stuck in my head.

    After I listened to Dopamine a few times it hit me: he’s the male version of Lana Del Rey. Their lyrics are a little alike; the music hits a similar vein; and while her voice dips super-low for a woman, his drifts high for a man. I could see them working together on a project, couldn’t you? I think this is going to be my new summer obsession.