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I've recently gotten super into reading this summer.

To me, summer reads are meant to be fun and fast.

I'm pretty big in a sci-fi and general mysteries like that.

I'm John Glyn Hill. This is explained it to me, and I think one of the best parts of summer

is Love Island.

I love to call myself a sensitive gangster, so I'm crying again.

But that's over now. So it's time for the second best part. Grabbing a book and sitting

outside by someone's pool. Usually I go for the It Book of the summer, think you're

Britt Bennett or Emma Klein, or a medium to spicy romance novel, something along the lines of

Jasmine Guillory or Talia Hippert. It's fun. It's an escape from the Doom Scroll and it just feels right.

But how did summer reading become such a thing?

Before we dive into that, we wanted to hear from some readers about why and what they read in

the summer.

So we sent our producer Avashai Artsy on a quest to find readers.

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