Ashley Cornelius
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Podcast Appearances
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.