Beach Reading

I have to admit that I go totally antisocial on a vacation like the beach trip. I have a hard time turning off my brain and just sitting (for hours on end on the beach), so my deal is, if we aren't going to DO things, I'm going to READ things. LOTS of things. I read FAST. So here's my beach trip reading list, divided into two sections:

Brain Cell Promoting:
Into Thin Air, a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster, by John Krakauer
The cassoulet saved our marriage: true tales of food, family and how we learned to eat
Love, Water, Memory, by Jenny Shortridge
Calling Me Home, Julie Kibler
Escape from Camp 14, one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West, by Blaine Harden

Brain Cell Deleting: 
Silver Girl, The Beach Club, and Nantucket Nights, by Elin Hilderbrand (She's a perfect beach trip author)
The Perfect Hope, by Nora Roberts (Shut up, it's a BEACH TRIP)

And we've got a few books on cd for the 32 hour total trip:
The Hunger Games, book one
Ender's Game (a favorite from 7th grade and the movie is coming out this summer!)
Dad is Fat, by Jim Gaffigan. Stand-up on family life as a book, read by the author? Yes please.

Plus I've got a couple missional communities books from church that I haven't cracked yet, so I might dive into those. Between Brian and I, we're probably bringing fifteen books. I mean, we need a whole suitecase just for our reading materials.

This being a time of the Seven fasts right now, I'd also like to point out that this canon of materials is comprised entirely from the library. I love you library! You're my favorite!