By Gini Dietrich

I’m a huge fiction fan. My senior year in college, I took a women’s literary course to finish out my English degree, and I remember sitting in the stairwell of the creative writing department reading. No one would think to look for me there so I could read, uninterrupted, for hours.

It was like I was six years old again, hiding in my closet where my brothers couldn’t find me, with a book.

And I loved every second of it.

Not much has changed, except now I read on my iPad and I’m better at tuning out interruptions. I read on the couch, in the hammock, in bed, while getting a manicure, on the beach, on the El, and even when I’m riding a stationary bike.

Because of that, I have read 26 books this year and have six to recommend you put on your summer reading list. (more…)