Help save my sanity with book recommendations

[expectantsteelerfan]

I need a few things to read to help me make it through the rest of the summer so that I don't accidentally drop my kids off at the pool and leave them there until school starts again.  Requirements: Light enough that I won't be annoyed being interrupted by said kids every 5 minutes for a snack, help with something, etc., but engaging enough to pull me right back in after all those interruptions.  My sanity (and my kids) thank you!

[charlatti]

Crazy Rich Asians? I didn’t think I’d like it but it was a good, frothy read. How do you feel about YA and middle grade books?

[tacokick]

Any Liane Moriarty book. Dinner for Seven by Whitney Gaskill was cute and broken up onto small sections.

[mrspez07]

The Wedding Date
anything by Kristin Higgins
Modern Girls by Jennifer S Brown
Books by Jill shalvis
Sarah Addison Allen

[abs]

Fun easy reads: Kristan Higgins, Elin Hilderbrand (most...some are heavier than others), the Mercy Thompson series, A Court of Thorns and Roses series...

I hear you. I have a love/hate relationship with summer. Right now I am ready for August 20th!

[minzy]

For your criteria, I’d recommend You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld (she also wrote Eligible). It’s a newer release of ten engrossing but short stories, so lots of natural breaks for putting it down if you need to. I thought it was great (though two of my friends who I had read it were somehow more “meh”). The stories are about people in middle age, which admittedly may have been extra compelling to me around my birthday/HS reunion.

[expectantsteelerfan]

I've already read Crazy Rich Asians, all of Liane Moriarty's books, most of Kristin Higgins and Elin Hildebrande's, but all the others I've added to my list/requested from the library. Thanks!

[dorothyinAus]

I'm not sure if you're a mystery fan, but James Runcie's Sidney Chambers/Grantchester books are a series of loosely connected short stories, so it's easy to dip in and out, but they are still interesting enough to pull you through to the end of the books. Some of them deal with heavy subjects, but they are not heavy books.

Rita Mae Brown's Mrs. Murphy mysteries are pretty light, fun, quick reads, though she can get a bit preachy in some. The scenes with the animals talking are my favorite parts, and the illustrations just make the books.

I read mainly mysteries, so I'm not much help with other recommendations.

In the non-mystery reads, I found Alexandre Dumas easy to read and really engaging. I tore through The Three Musketeers, Queen Margot, and The Black Tulip. The serial nature of The Three Musketeers made it easy to pick up and put down. I'd also recommend Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation series, though that does require a bit more attention here and there, but they are fun and quick reads as well.

[krystee]

The Mary Higgins Clark/Alafair Burke mysteries are very light and engaging!