Yes, it's that time of year when you can find beach books as plentiful as grains of sand on a beach.
Just who invented the fun reading known as Beach Books?According to Katy Waldman in a New Yorker article, "The Invention of the Beach Read," railroads and steamships made travel easy and those who worked in the city had enough income to abandon the city and escape to coastal towns during the summer.
With the advent of these summer escapes to the coast, book publishers created special book lists for affluent vacationers and. promoted them as summer reads.
Proper reading material at that time was serious literature and nonfiction which meant that those publishers who targeted the monied society‑folk succeeded in changing the perception of reading fiction which was previously considered vulgar and tasteless.
What better to read at the beach than a novel set at a beach? May I suggest Deceptively Yours, a
sizzling HOT second chance romantic suspense full of surprises.
I'll confess that I'll take a wonderful romance with a happily ever after any day of the year, not just in the summer.
I find Romance is the optimistic genre.
What do you think?
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Summer reads makes much more sense to me than beach reads ever did. I read in the summer, but never on the beach with sand, sun, and sun block! It's a fun setting to write, though, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteYes, I like summer reads too—not everyone goes to the beach. *g*
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