Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Summer Quotes


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Long and Short Reviews has a small team of people who take turns writing Top Ten Tuesday posts. I feel excited every time Freebie posts pop up and try to request them as often as I can.

This week I’m going to use the freebie post to share ten bookish summer quotes.

 

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James

 

“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.”
L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams

 

“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don’t, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

 

“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

 

“It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.”
Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

 

“The sound of crickets, the feel of warm dried grass on the soles of his feet and the scent of baked earth pleased him. The big thick glass was icy in his hands. When he set it down, the tinkle of the ice cubes sounded personal.”
Ian McEwan, Lessons

 

“There are not enough jam jars to can this
summer sky at night. I want to spread those
little meteors on a hunk of still-warm bread this
winter. Any trace left on the knife will make a kitchen sink like that evening air

the cool night before
star showers: so sticky so warm so full of light”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

 

“The thing about a deep summer’s evening is that it is filled with an array of sounds that never intrude on the silence because they were created to accentuate it, not fill it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

Meeting someone on a summer’s evening is like giving a dead flame new life.”
Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

 

“And I spent a wonderful summer, below the trees in the Godavari, writing my poetry.”
Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

 

What are your favorite bookish summer quotes?

Saturday Seven 3: Books we’ve reviewed that make me think of summer

I live in the northeast and it’s been cold and snowy for a few months now. I’m SO ready for summer… so I took a look at the covers of books we’ve reviewed that transport me away someone warmer and sunny.  Click the cover to read our reviews.

1. Playing by the Greek’s Rules by Sarah Morgan

Seriously … does it get any more “summer” than that? Beach, check. Sunshine, check. Hot guy in a swimsuit, check. Even better, it sounds like the story is solid based on the FIVE STAR review our reviewer gave it. I think I’ll have to check this one out!

2. Turning the Tides by Nell Castle

Nothing says “summer” like a palm tree. Yeah, I know it’s got that ominous set of eyes at the top, but … palm trees!

3. Laked by J L Wilson

LAKE! Dock! That just screams summer. And I’m incredibly intrigued by Excalibur hanging out there in the middle of the water. And the character names! Summer *and* King Arthur… putting this one on my TBR right now.

4. Mugs and Monasteries by Cait O’Sullivan

Clearly water is a theme for me… maybe this a little less summery than the others, but it still has that theme.

5. His Little Lanie by Keri Ford

Ocean waves, bikini, summer lovin’ … yeah, baby.

6. Hearts at Seaside by Addison Cole

Hey, water again! Ocean, bare feet, sunshine…. I want to be there.

7. Love on Longboat Key by Meg West

Beach, flip-flops, sunshine … hits all the high points of summer.

What beach read do you recommend? Help me get out of this cold, snowy winter, if only on a fictional escape.

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