Ashley Cornelius

And I have a very low threshold for crying.

Like I will cry pretty easily in any book or movie.

And I don't want to be crying the whole way through.

But when I was looking at these books, like a moment of sadness and intense emotion is

turns out to be something that really makes something more memorable for me and stick with me.

But I do like the lighter and anything also that connects just to like summer camp or places that I travel for the summer.

Those are things that just bring me into what I guess I call this a summer mindset of being on break or vacation.

Yeah, let's do this.

So the first one is The River by Peter Heller.

And I actually find this super interesting because I was just flipping through the summer 2022 reading guide and saw The River.

And I was like, oh, that has to be it.

But it wasn't until I was setting stuff up last night that I realized that I had actually read it in the summer of 2019.

And I think I really got it just from the minimalist guide from that year.

And then I think you just had like put in a few like older books into the 2022 Summer Reading Guide.

So it was there.

And I even had a note on it saying, oh, I loved this one, but I didn't catch it until last night.

So I really read it earlier.

So in The River by Peter Heller, there's two college friends are spending a few weeks in a very remote river trip.

And starting with this fast-moving wildfire, their trip takes this dramatic turn from this peaceful time on the river and outdoors to this survival mode.

And I just loved this book because of the gorgeous descriptions of their life on the river.