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2026 Summer Read

Hello, friends. The first half of this year has been a beast of a year, work wise. I always look forward to creating a Summer Reading list but this year, I just don’t have the bandwidth!

Instead, I am picking up The Count of Monte Cristo and I am calling it “my summer read” because it’s 1300pp. and will probably take me all summer to get through!

Anyone want to join me? I am starting it today and will read it in-between review copies and book club picks. So many have recommended this book to me and it will feel so good to finally get this one under my belt.

Come on, you know you want to join me.

Summer Reading? Maybe? Anyone care to join me?

Ti, holding a copy of Infinite Jest outside, against a backdrop of greenery.

Remember how I mentioned that reading, or rather finding any time to read has been a challenge? Well, I’ve completely lost my mind. I scrapped any hopes of coming up with a summer reading list. Instead, I picked up this doorstop of a book.

Infinite Jest by the late David Foster Wallace.

I almost chose this one as my first book of the year and you all said, “No, Ti!! Don’t do that to yourself!” I listened. But, guys, it’s been one heck of a year so far. I feel like NOW might be the right time to read it.

Here’s a blurb:

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America

“Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.” ~ the publisher

Sounds fascinating, right? So, I am going to spend the summer with this book. I will take my time reading it, feeling it, and digesting whatever there is to take in. Simple. One book, for the summer. I can do this.