I've mentioned before that I love to read - I don't smoke, I don't drink (except the occasional mixed drink at a party), but reading is my addiction, always has been. Summers are the perfect time for someone like me as it's perfectly natural to have a book (or an eReader) at all times - while at the park with the kids, at the beach, while camping or cottaging. Here are some of the made in Canada  books on my Summer list and available from Buy Canadian First member Indigo Books and Music Inc:

Room from author Emma Donoghue is about five-year-old-Jack. Jack's world is contained within an 11x11 foot space called Room where he and his Ma live after she was kidnapped seven years earlier while walking through her college campus at age 19. Described as disturbing, thrilling, and emotionally compelling, Room is the perfect book for a long afternoon at the beach or a late night a the cottage because this is one book you won't be able to put down.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, is a great one to pick up this Summer and be ready for the movie adaptation to come out on DVD later this year. Water for Elephants is told as a series of memories by Jacob Jankowski, a "ninety or ninety-three year-old" man as he puts it, who lives in a nursing home. It wasn't always this way though. Jacon Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one and that's where the real story is. Described as being full of rich descriptions and action, Water for Elephants is a real 5 star book.

A Trick of the Light from author Louise Penny will be available at the end of the Summer. This is a new installment in her series featuring mysteries set in Quebec and centred on the work of Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Now is the time to pick up her earlier award-winning books if you haven't already, to be prepared for the release of A Trick of the Light on August 30th.

This past weekend during our camping trip I enjoyed pulling a book out for those few quiet moments (Exit Strategy by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong). What's on your Summer Reads list?

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