From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad, I'm Greta Johnson, and this week we are leaning in

to summer goodness.

Solstice is right around the corner, and whether you're living it up at the beach, or you

worked 40 hours this week like me, odds are you're still managing to squeeze in some warm

weather whimsy.

Coming up WXPN's Kristen Curtis is going to share some of her favorite songs of the season,

but first, Summer Bucks.

You knew it was coming, yes, there is a new Taylor Jenkins read novel out, yes Jasmine

Gillerie's newest rom-com will be here in no time, and yes, I will keep telling you

to read Great Circle because it is a really great book, but there is so much more stuff

out there.

And here to yell about great books with me is Liberty Hardy.

She's a senior contributing editor for Book Riot, and host of the All the Books podcast.

She is her own hype person.

She reads hundreds of books a year, and she's here to tell us about some of her faves.

Liberty, hey.

Hello, I am waving my arms in my office.

You just have to trust me, I really am.

I got my foot arms going on.

I'm so excited to talk about these books.

So before we start specific titles, how many books have you read so far?

We're like in June, probably a couple hundred, right?

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