For Your Consideration: Tablet's Summer Reading List

After months and months of gloom, warmth and sunshine has returned to New York City. Melt away winter funk, you grimy, soul-sucking cannibal; into the sewer you go. Summer, as they say, is coming.

Though this time of year means different things for different people, there’s a pervasive leaning—especially in areas that experience four seasons—toward wanting to take a break, a vacation; as a friend of mine likes to say, people find their “chill castles.” Some people head to the beach where they can bake their skin, shovel the Earth’s sediment with a pail, and ride waves. Some people prefer to find the shade of a deciduous tree, against which they can stare up through its leaves and think about stuff or zone out entirely. Some people camp, rising with dawn then settling down at dusk. Some people simply seek air conditioning.

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