Sunday is the ideal day to dedicate yourself to reading. Perhaps light, carefree books that help relieve the tiredness of the week just gone by and instill the right energy for the one that is about to arrive.
If you are looking for the right work to read on your summer Sundays, continue reading our article. Below we suggest five books, all recently released, perfect to read on summer Sundays: relaxing, exciting, original and full of positivity. Here they are!
5 books to read recommended for a summer Sunday
“
If you are looking for funny, touching books with an unexpected ending, you are in the right place.
Mrs. Quinn, who is not yet famous, has had a beautiful life full of love and sweetness. Why, then, at the age of seventy-seven, did you decide to enroll in a cooking competition? Because it is not written anywhere that there is an age limit for dreaming.
You have to be brave and Jenny, convinced that she isn’t up to it, signs up but doesn’t tell anyone. It’s the second time she’s kept something from her husband, but the first of her sixty-year-old secrets could have devastating consequences if it comes to light.
Transported into an unknown world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny enjoys a new independence which, however, combined with the stress of the competition, begins to dig up old and painful memories.
“The Garden Against Time” by Olivia Laing
For a relaxing but slightly different reading than usual, among the books we suggest today, “The Garden Against Time” is the most suitable. Especially if you are looking for relaxation and psychophysical relaxation on your summer Sundays.
Olivia Laing is forty-two years old when she becomes the owner of a garden for the first time.
It is a long-neglected garden, as the knots of vines covering the red bricks, rotting fruit trees and faded roses seem to indicate.
Until that moment, her botanical aspiration had only manifested itself in a recurring dream: a door that leads to an unknown place, in which she, weightless, finds herself inhabiting a new territory, rich in potential.
In reality, the work of caring for this enclosed space in Suffolk takes on the contours of change.
Moving between real and imaginary gardens, from Milton’s verses to John Clare’s elegies, from a war shelter in Val d’Orcia to William Morris’s fertile vision of a total Eden, Olivia Laing discovers that among the beds of daffodils and rosemary rebel outposts exist and the common dreams of all humanity are hidden.
“Role playing games” by Gabriella Genisi
For a more dynamic read, we recommend the spin-off of the book series starring Lolita Lobosco.
Giancarlo Caruso, the charming Sicilian deputy commissioner serving in Padua who readers met in After Much Nebbia and in the subsequent books of Lolita Lobosco’s investigations, after a sabbatical year spent in Puglia and the failure of his relationship with the most famous commissioner in Italy, accepts the position of first manager at the Manfredonia police station, in the province of Foggia, despite having several critical issues.
The beauty of the landscape, in fact, clashes with a criminal system that strangles the entire territory. Arriving in Capitanata, in an attempt to forget Lolita, Caruso embarks on a couple of wrong stories, until a complicated case lands on his desk.
In Siponto, a seaside hamlet of Manfredonia, a body was found in a villa by the sea sitting in an armchair in front of the TV…
“Tomorrow, tomorrow” by Francesca Giannone
After the success of “La portalettere”, Francesca Giannone returns with one of the most “summer” books of this short review.
Salento, 1959. Lorenzo and Agnese have lost everything. And they understand it when, with the sad eyes that he has carried with him all his life, the father announces that he has sold the family soap factory, an inheritance that he experienced as a condemnation.
For Lorenzo and Agnese, however, that factory that their grandfather created from nothing, which smells of talc, floral essences and vegetable oils, and which occupies their every thought, was the certainty of a peaceful present and the promise of a future. to be traced together, united. So the idea of remaining there as simple workers under an arrogant new master is devastating for both of them.
“You Are Here” by David Nicholls
Finally, if you are looking for exciting, profound and hopeful books, we recommend reading the new book by the author of the best-seller “One day”.
Marnie is thirty-eight years old and feels like life is slipping through her fingers. Little by little, friends have gone their own ways – marriages, children – and now live in Hastings or Stevenage, Cardiff or York, while she remained in London, with the only company of her books, liters of tea and a remote control which he must not share with anyone.
Michael is forty-two years old and doesn’t know how to put the pieces of his life back together, which was shattered when his wife left him. Although his profession leads him to always find himself surrounded by people, mostly high school students in whose little heads he tries to inculcate geography, his only comfort is long solitary walks on the moors…
© Reproduction Reserved
