Being in law school usually leaves me with zero time for reading for pleasure. During the school year, I gather book titles that I want to read during the summer and as soon as finals are done, I pull out the iPad and get to reading. I am currently reading three books at once – I have trouble sticking to one book at a time, but when you have to wait months to read, you want to get into as many books as you can at once.
The Ultimate Beginner’s Running Guide is a very straightforward book which shares what you need to get started with running (very little) and even provides running plans you can follow and ways to track your mileage. It also goes through the proper running for and gives tips about how prevent common injuries which keep beginners from sticking to it.
The New Rules of Lifting for Women is an amazing book which dispells all the myths surrounding lifting weights for women. Most women stray away from weights out of fear that they will get “bulky” and women’s magazines are full of workouts for “long and lean” muscles, but there is no way to lengthen your muscles and using light weight only builds endurance, but doesn’t build muscle so you won’t see any real results. I’m only on the second chapter of this book, but I already feel that I’ve learned a ton!
Eat Food. Not too Much. Mostly Plants…and food doesn’t mean something that came out of a package either. This book shows how our diets have changed, mostly for the worst, over hundreds of years and how we can dispel all the myths surrounding nutrition to create a healthy diet for ourselves.
My mom read this book while she was on vacation and when she came back she told me and Tommy that we both have to read it. The book basically states that it sill teach you secrets of how to make your money work for you. Tommy is reading it first, and he says that he is finding it really interesting so far.
Last but not least is the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy. I am honestly a little scared to read these book after all the reviews that I’ve heard of them, but at the same time I feel like I need to read them to see what all the hype is about.
What’s on your summer reading list?
I have SO MANY books on my summer reading list! The one I’m most excited for is Emily Giffin’s WHERE WE BELONG. She’s my absolute favorite author and I am counting down until the novel is released on July 24th!
I just read the first chapter preview on her website and it looks great!
I still need to read the last two books of the Hunger Games series. I’ve been waiting for the second one to come in from the library but it’s been taking months already! I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet and just buy the last two. I definitely need reading material for my honeymoon.
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I loved the Hunger Games books! I read them while I was on vacation last year, and they are great vacation reading books!
I’d like to read the running one as well as In Defense of Food – I own NROLFW and it’s great!
I’m still struggling to get through a book I started months ago called The Passage. I need to make more time for reading.
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I\’m loving NROLFW. I hope to learn a lot from it! I want muscles!:)
Looks like a great group of books! I would love to read the lifting book for women, not that I am scared of lifting I just want to learn more!
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Me too! That\’s why I picked it up, it\’s an interesting read.
That is an awesome group of books that I will most definitely be pulling from. 🙂 My reading list is composed of anything that the library has. 50 shades has a waitlist for a million years, so it looks like I’ll never read them!