{"id":1863,"date":"2011-06-23T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifewithhappiness.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:36:48","slug":"summer-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2011\/06\/summer-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/resources\/summer-reading-list\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Take me to the Summer Reading List!\" src=\"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/files\/2011\/06\/srl2010.gif\" alt=\"Sun, Sand, &amp; Summer Reading\" width=\"170\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #9400d3\"> Jim Smith&#8217;s 12th Annual<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #9400d3\"> Summer Reading List<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #9400d3\">Is now online!<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>It&#8217;s the first full day of summer&#8230; <\/strong>and aren&#8217;t you excited about the long, warm summer evenings ahead, where the evenings are long and breezy and you can sit on your porch with some cool lemonade and a good book?\u00a0 (or in my case, iced coffee or dark beer, and my iPad!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>To help you focus on some great reads, I&#8217;m sharing my 12th annual compilation. <\/strong>(the past few years are there, too, if you want to catch up).\u00a0 Read the books, or maybe just read the list, so you&#8217;ll know what other people are talking about! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Have you noticed how books, in just the past 12 months, have become  almost quaint? <\/strong>Borders is closing stores right and left. Libraries are  migrating to new platforms for sharing e-books. A gadzillion reading  devices (Nook, Kindle, Kobe, iPad\u2026) are in the hands of people who,  until last summer, read ACTUAL BOOKS. And Amazon announced that e-books  now officially outsell hard copy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>The fragmentation of readership is doing to bestseller  lists what cable did to the networks. <\/strong>It\u2019s tough to find a book that  LOTS of people recommend, because there were a million new titles  published last year, each with a readership of about 500 people. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Since the world of reading\u2019s gone all weird on us, I  decided that this year is as good as any for changing the format of my  Summer Reading List. <\/strong>This year I mix a bit of new with some  classic old. Some titles come up year after year as new readers discover  great works from past years, so I dug into my archives for the best of  the past 11 years. Then I added in a few new entries, and I offer the  list for your consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To view the list, click on the icon above or on this URL:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a title=\"Take me to the SRL!\" href=\"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/resources\/summer-reading-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/resources\/2011_Books.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Happy Summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first full day of summer&#8230; and aren&#8217;t you excited about the long, warm summer evenings ahead, where the evenings are long and breezy and you can sit on your porch with some cool lemonade and a good book?  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