You know those days when you don't feel like watching TV or being online and all you want to do is cuddle up with a book? I totally get that way, except sometimes the book I'm reading is too long, or too wordy, or too much for the moment I'm in. That's when it's the perfect time to pull out a book like
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen. Set in North Carolina, the book revolves around Willa Jackson and the estate her family had to give up many years before she was even born. It's a story about women, societies, group-think, love, and...magic. Yes, magic. It's a good book--nothing life changing or poignant--but, it's good. It would make a perfect beach read. I could even see it being a book club book, but like I said, it's pretty quick, and the story just rolls along (hopping back and forth between older times and the current time), with no hard-hitting phrases or words. It's a sweet story, for sure, and in a way it sort of reminded me of
The Help.
If you like reading about the South, check out an awesome book,
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore. Set in the 1970s, it follows the story of Catherine, a small town Georgia girl who wants nothing more than to get out of town. However, as soon as she leaves a tragedy pulls her back, and she starts to see her life, and town, through new eyes. What I loved about Looking for Salvation was that there was a certain innocence to it; you really could feel that she grows in the book, and becomes a woman from the small daughter of a Baptist preacher that she once was. Another great beach or travel read...also a good book club choice.
