If you want a perfect beach body, just bring your body to the beach.” Or so said some very wise person with exemplary values. Probably Oprah.
If only it worked that way for books. If you want a perfect beach read, take your time and choose wisely. Or else wind up like me on a recent Hamptons weekend, flipping tearfully through All the Lovers In the Night, Mieko Kawakami’s lonely meditation on drinking too much in Tokyo. My friends who chose better – a Reese Witherspoon book club pick; Sally Rooney – were emotionally capable of reading out the funny bits, even commenting idly on the tide and how popular pickleball is getting.
