From New York Times' opinion, I'm Carlos Lozada.

I'm Michele Cabo.

I'm Ross Douthit, and I'm Lydia Pullgrain.

And this is Matter of Opinion Summer Reading Edition.

So if this summer you take even a few vacation days, maybe relax at the local pool, get

away to the beach, you might take a book or two along to pass the time, and we are here

to help.

We're going to talk about some of our favorite summer reads, books we love that we hope will

make it into your beach bag.

And also let's get into our own reading plans for the summer.

Who wants to go first?

How about you, Michele?

Okay.

I'm jumping right in here, and I am shunning all of the high brow potential and going for

killer beach reading.

A woman after my own heart.

There you go.

This works perfectly with umbrella drinks and lots of centen.

So it's a series of murder mysteries centered on four British pensioners.

And it's known as the Thursday Murder Club Books, which is the name of the first installment

of this.

Now, I am not a fan of the mystery genre generally, but I have a friend who is who basically

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