Here, for your laughter and enjoyment, is my Completely Unreasonable Summer Reading List. I really do want to read all these books, not necessarily in this order. Preferably soon.

• Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) (the second half)
• The Iliad (Homer)
• The Making of a Poem (Mark Strand, Eavan Boland)
• Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire (Susan Tan)
• When You Trap a Tiger (Tae Keller)
• This Our Exile (Joshua Hren)
• Freeing Jesus (Diana Butler Bass)
• Monet’s Palate Cookbook (Aileen Bordman and Derek Fell)
• The Five Wounds (Kirstin Valdez Quade)
• Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Adam Minter)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
• Unsheltered (Barbara Kingsolver)
• The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (Sebastian Barry)
• Lost in Thought (Zena Hitz)
• The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
• Poems New and Collected (Wisława Szymborska)
• Wingfeather Series (Andrew Peterson)
• Plus back issues of Image, Evangelization and Culture, and Plough

It’s possible I need to be less ambitious and more focused. It’s highly unlikely I’ll finish anywhere near all of these by the end of July.

But a girl can dream, can’t she?