Let’s Talk Bookish: Summer Reading Plans

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022.

June 2nd: Summer Reading Plans

Prompts: It’s almost summer! What kinds of books do you like to read in summer? Do you have any summer reading plans? What books are at the top of your summer TBR? 

This week really has felt like summer – it’s definitely warming up, even if the mornings are still a touch chilly. This is the time of year when it suddenly feels like there are so many things to do, and not enough time to do it all! Not enough annual leave, either, unfortunately. We’re hoping to clear out our garden a bit now, and spend some more time out there – I’m looking forward to reading in the sunshine, definitely.

Where room allows, I quite enjoy balancing light and darker reads through the summer. Light as in usually romantic, maybe a little fluffy, the sort of thing with bright colours that fills you with warmth and has you really cheering on the main couple. And so I’m not too full of sickly sweet, I like switching it out with Fantasy and Horror that feel like they ‘fit’ with summer. Maybe Fantasy like Together We Burn, which has a kind of hotter climate and deals with dragons in a Spain-inspired world, or Horror like my current read, Camp Damascus, which deals with a conversion therapy type camp, and the main character is realising a few things about her faith towards the end of summer.

Right now, I don’t have specific summer reading plans, though I do have some books I want to try and get to. I’m currently alternating between reading books for reading challenges, and reading something else between. I’d like to try and clear some of the arcs I have that are due out over summer, and right now I’m trying to focus on some books to read and review for our Pride event over at Divination Hollow (including the previously mentioned Camp Damascus, which is proving to be brilliant). I also picked up two books on a trip into Waterstones, and I really do want to read them as soon as I can – This Wicked Fate and Rise to the Sun.

Mainly, I want to try and clear more reading challenges books. As I’m a bit of a mood reader, the stuff I read outside of them will totally depend on how I’m feeling, though I do have a few romances I’ve been eyeing up for a while and I would like to get to when I can, and of course right now with it being June, as much of my reading as possible is going to be LGBT+ books.

What about you? What are your summer reading plans?