It's The Simple Show, and you've got episode 76.

Hi, I'm Tish Oxenwriter, and on The Simple Show, we talk about books, travel, and life at home.

In this episode, I'm joined by my co-host, Haley Stewart.

Hello, Haley.

Hi, Tish.

Hey, all right.

Tell us who you are and what you do.

Sure.

I am a mom of three, and I live in Central Texas, and I'm a writer. I blog at carrots for Micklemish.com, and I co-host the Fountains of Carrots podcast. And I'm a writer and mom living in Central Texas, and you can find me online at the art of simple.net.

This is a books episode. So we are going to talk about our choices for summer reading. It's a little bit of a different episode.

We're each going to share five books, three we've read, and two we haven't.

And I'm really excited about this, Haley, because I think with our combination of 10 books, it's going to be a solid book list. And I'm already thinking about our choices. It's going to be a really nice mix of old and new, easy and more challenging. And to me, that's like what makes the best summer readings. Before we get going, I wanted to ask you, do you feel like you get more reading done in the summer or is it just more of the same when you have kids our age?

I feel like I do. And it's mostly because we usually take a trip to my mom's family reunion in North Carolina and grandparents are there.

And so kids are entertained and I feel like I get time to actually make it through some books and on the drive.

You know, the kids fall asleep and I can read in the car.

So I feel like it kind of jumpstarts my summer reading.

Yeah, I don't know what it is for me because in some ways my life is just more of the same.

The kids are home a little bit more.

You know, we do a school where they're at school three days a week and home two days a week doing homeschool. But the thing is our school also does a six

week on, one week off school schedule year round. So they don't have a super long summer.

They only have July and August as summer. And so in some ways my life is more the same,

but there's something psychological to me about summer that just goes with reading. It's like I just want to read more. And maybe it's because we're here in Texas and it's like just miserably hot outside. So we just get really like, I just want to lay on the couch and read. But I don't know. I just get a lot more reading done, even though I still

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