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So it looks like we are going to be spending a lot of time at home this summer. Traveling doesn’t seem to be on the table and I don’t think that a lot of our usual trips to theme parks and water parks will be happening this year either.

That being said, we have been setting up our yard for a lot of family time out there. We have our wading pool set up, our slide and and play house ready, a new dining set, a toy grill, and a bounce house.

I’m definitely planning to spend a lot of time out there whether or not I have to head back to the office in the coming weeks. While some of that time will be hanging out with the family, I also plan on getting some reading done out there. I have a goal of reading at least 25 books this year and I think a lot of them will be read this summer.

Below are some of the books I’m hoping to get through this summer. Have you read any of them? Maybe they can inspire your own summer reading list.

Year of Yes

I actually started this one a few days ago and I am already enjoying it. Not only is it an inspiring project, it’s also fun to get insight on the creator of one of my favorite shows, Grey’s Anatomy.

Based on a comment from her sister about how she never says yes to anything, Shonda decides to say yes to each new opportunity that comes her way for a year. She drops the excuses and pushes past the fear and it changes her life.

The Year of Yes is so inspiring for anyone who gives excuses for not doing things that may scare them.

The XX Brain

Dr. Lisa Mosconi is a doctor who is passionate about understanding the female body. In the past and even still today, most medical research focuses on the male body and treats females as men with boobs and tubes. The female monthly cycle is to inconvenient to deal with.

But in fact, women are far more likely than men to suffer from anxiety, depression, migraines, brain injuries, and strokes. They are also twice as likely to end their lives suffering from Alzheimer's disease, even when their longer lifespans are taken into account. 

This book focuses on the female brain and the things we can do to help support it throughout our lives. This is definitely on my must read list.

Decluttering at the Speed of Life

Do you ever declutter and then feel like the space you just made quickly fills up with more stuff? At the start of quarantine we cleaned out the girls’ bedroom, but in the past week with both of them having birthdays, it feels like their room exploded again.

I’m hoping this book will inspire some good decluttering throughout the house. I’m especially looking forward to the chapter entitled: Helping Others Declutter.

Maybe I can help my kids and hubs declutter their spaces too!

Don’t Make a Sound

If you like crime thrillers then this book may be just up your alley. If not, maybe leave this one off your list.

This is the first book in a series following crime reporter Sawyer Brooks. She had a traumatic childhood and must return home when a girl is murdered in the same fashion her best friend and two other girls were murdered way back when.

This is 100% my favorite kind of fiction. Lots of suspense and crime solving.

I am Enough

I picked up this book after listening to an interview with the author Marisa Peer. She has been a leading therapist for over 30 years and has developed her own method of therapy called Rapid Transformational Therapy.

This book is all about truly believing that you are and always have been enough and then allowing that knowledge to transform every aspect of your life.

I think even the most self aware people could use a reminder of this every now and then.

To Sir With Love

This is another one that I picked up a while back and then never actually read yet. The book is the inspiration behind the classic Sidney Poitier film from 1967.

It is the story of a black former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, who takes a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, he takes a radical new approach which transforms both the students and himself.

I’m hoping to get through all of these books this summer. I truly enjoy reading and I’m relishing the opportunity to do more of it.

Are you inspired to pick up any of these? What are you looking forward to reading this summer. Let me know in the comments.

Cheers,

Emily