Beach reads.

So books that would be really great for when you're by the beach, the pool or having a staycation.

Or, you know, maybe just any time of the year would be great to all of these are really great.

They're like my top five books of all time, Essentially.

So let's get started.

Um, this book is my favorite of all time.

I'm starting with it because I just want to really tell you how much I love it.

Um, Outlander by Diana Gavaldon is, well, more to, and it's based with a girl named Claire Randall, who is married, and she's a nurse in the Army, and she needs to rekindle her marriage to Frank, her husband, And they go to Scotland to kind of have an official honeymoon after all this time.

And so they go to the countryside where there is a hill, a circle of stones called Craig Muldoon, and she has to wash.

Doesn't have to.

She just kind of explores that area, and she's picking flowers and then all of a sudden she's touches one of the stones.

She gets cast back in time, and she doesn't even know that she's cast back in time till she sees people wearing very different outfits.

And then she has to really try to get back to the Stones.

But, you know, obviously there's all of these things that come into play that makes it so so she can't get back.

And so she's really stuck in 17 43 trying to get back to her husband and her life, But she can't.

And so she's trying to make do and survive and, um, not be considered a witch for knowing so much, especially as Nurse um, the girl, Diana Gavaldon, who wrote this series, has so many degrees, and they're all so different from each other, like marine biology.

She has a nursing background and so many other things that you get just so much knowledge in all of her books.

So I'm on Book five now of the Outlander series, and I just keep reading them because they're just so amazing.

And I'm in love with the characters.

I could go on for hours about Outlander.

I just can't believe how detailed it is and how much these characters feel.

Just riel s Oh, yes, I was a definitely get involved with some Outlander while you're on vacation.

The audio books are really great, too, so you might see a little bit of a theme here.

I don't know how I pick up so many World War two books, but this next one is the Nightingale by Kristen Hannah.

I talked a little bit about this a few months ago into this channel, so, um, I won't go too much and death with it.

But World War two France there's two sisters that are very different from each other, that the war really test them both in different ways.

So one's very strong willed and the other sister, it has a family, and she's just trying to survive.

I think that the common theme in these in this book with the two Sisters is I think we all have ideals that we live by.

And there's a point in which you have to either survive or have your test of character really retested in, and you have to, like, decide how important your ideals are to you.

That's really what I think this book is about.

It also made me blubber with this scene of their dad.

So So I'm gonna say about that.

Um, yeah, I would say that this book was not boring at all in any part.

So that's kind of a rarity, because there's so many books I get like halfway through, and I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is a snooze fest.

But this one was awesome.

So for all my fashion people out there, I would definitely suggests Z a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.

You got to read so much about all of Zelda's style as she is the original flapper.

She's the wife of F.

Scott Fitzgerald.

Um, I have read a few books by F.

Scott Fitzgerald, and I really liked him and appreciated him until I read this book and it made me totally Team Zelda.

That is a thing like, people take teams over this marriage, and, um, there's probably some people out there.

They're like, read this book instead, you'll feel differently, but this is just where I am today.

Um, it was very interesting, had a lot to do about mental health issues as well, because she had issues with bipolar and there were a lot of different things that back then they couldn't treat.

They couldn't even identify her issues that she was having very correctly, um, and help her in those ways.

She so a lot of her treatments kind of made things worse for her as well.

But there was so much else going on in her life that you get to really see and understand.

Aside from those things, she was really an amazing author.

She was really the inspiration, the muse behind everything that F.

Scott Fitzgerald wrote.

And she was an amazing artist.

And she, you know, she was just so well known for all of the things that she would put herself in and she really throw herself into things like ballet was another one.

I think that you really get to see the difference in her style when she was growing up in the South and then also as like, she got older and she's meeting with Scott and they're going to parties and moving to urban places.

Her style just completely transforms.

So that was a really cool thing to read about, and I got to connect with Theresa and Fowler, the author, off this book over Instagram.

So that was just kind of a cool thing that happened for me reading this.

All right.

Book number four Judith Kinghorn has some awesome books.

And this was the 1st 1 I read from her, which is the last summer for anybody who likes the notebook.

You would love this book because it's almost verbatim.

There were some points in it that I'm like, OK, this was directly from the notebook, but it didn't make me love it any less.

Like I absolutely love the notebook.

And I loved the last summer there written differently, though, as far as characters and environments, It's a girl named Claressa Granville.

Yep.

I read this in a really long time ago.

Um, Crystal cool.

Arisa Granville.

Um, she's really drawn to Tom Cuff Bert, the housekeeper's handsome son.

So I will leave you with that much detail.

You can probably fill in the rest if you know about the notebook.

But this book I read so fast and I'm just really not a fast reader.

I just ate this one up.

Stayed up late, so I can't recommend this one enough.

Okay, so this is the last one.

But then I'm gonna talk about a bonus one in a second.

So stay tuned.

But this one is stars over clearly by Loretta Ellsworth.

I read this one last year, and it is so perfect for summer because it's about the Midwest in America.

World War two again.

And, um, it was so interesting to read it because it was about Iowa, and I just have not read many books about Iowa.

There's not many out there, Um, said this one.

I learned a lot about the perspective of World War Two.

If from the Americans to standpoint, a lot of times when I read World War Two, it's in Europe, Germany, all of those things.

But this one, um, you have a lot of Americans taking initiative over in the World War, and they were actually prisoner of war camps.

So one of the prisoners of war is helping out on a family farm.

And a little girl named Lorraine was not that little like high school.

I guess, um, she gets to, like, really meet the prisoners of war, and there's one that she just really, you know, they catch each other's eye.

And she understands a lot about his point of view, too, because He was just kind of thrown in to be a soldier, and he wasn't a very good one.

So they kind of connected.

Hi, I'm not gonna tell you the rest, but it was just so interesting.

And it's based around a building that I don't even remember what building it was anymore.

But it was really famous in Iowa Buddy Holly's thing there before he died.

So yeah, that place had a lot to do with just all of these romances.

That would happen in real life.

It's a real place and you get to, like, see it I went on Instagram and it's a real place.

It was fun to like, See, after I read the book So that was really awesome.

Stars over Clear Lake has a couple different meanings.

Ah, it's metaphorical in a lot of ways.

And it was just a really beautiful book, the very heart warming.

So I had to include it as one of my favorites.

So my next book that I'm reading is Jane Eyre.

My friend gave this book to me, so thank you, Rachel.

And I'm really excited to read this.

It's one of those classics that I just never got around to reading, so yeah, I'm really excited to read it.

Um, if you guys want to read it along with me this summer, then please do, and we can just talk about it.

I don't know how yet, but I'll figure that out.

All right, guys, Thank you so much for watching this.

It was so much fun to talk about books once in a while.

Um, I usually talk about fashion, but it's been fun to, like, break out of the mold a little bit and just talk about all the things that I've been reading.

And hopefully some of these will serve you well, while you are vacationing with you guys later.

Bye.