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so today I want to talk about my top 5
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 too all of these are
really great they're like my top 5 books
of all time essentially so let's get
started 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
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon is world war
two 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 Cregg 'no dune
and she has to well she 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 those 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 1743 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 not be considered a witch
for knowing so much and especially as
nurse the girl Diana Gabaldon who wrote
this series has so many degrees and
they're all so different from each other
like marine biology and 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 5 now of the Outlander series and I
just keep reading them because they're
just so amazing and I'm in love with
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 real so yes I would
say definitely get involved with some
Outlander while you're on vacation the
audiobooks 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 Hanna I talked a
little bit about this a few months ago
onto this channel so I won't go too much
in depth with it but World War two
France there's two sisters that are very
different from each other that the war
really tests 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 be tested and and you have to
like decide how important your ideals
are to you so that's really what I think
this book is about it also made me
blubber with the scene of their dad so
that's all I'm gonna say about that 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 snoozefest but
this one was awesome so for all my
fashion people out there I would
definitely suggest see 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 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 there's
probably some people out there that are
like read this book instead you'll feel
differently but this is just where I am
today 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 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'd
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 Therese and Fowler the author of
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 first one
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 okay 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
they're written differently though as
far as characters and environments it's
a girl named Clarissa Granville yep I
read this a really long time ago
krisily Clarissa Granville she's really
drawn to Tom Cuthbert the housekeepers
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 upstate
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 Clear Lake 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 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 so this one I
learned a lot about the perspective of
World War two from the Americans
standpoint a lot of times when I read
World War two it's in Europe Germany all
of those things but this one you have a
lot of Americans taking initiative over
in the World War II 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 well she's not that little like
high school I guess 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 connects
and 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 it after I read the book
so that was really awesome stars over
Clear Lake has a couple different
meanings it's metaphorical in a lot of
ways and it was just a really beautiful
book the very heartwarming 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
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 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
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 and I'll
see you guys later bye