Will Kelly

After a busy fall and spring, I’m looking forward to summertime and going to the pool has been on my mind lately. While the pool was the last thing on my mind during the unseasonably cool Memorial Day weekend, I do look forward to some quality reading time as the summer progresses.

• Word Up! by Marcia Riefer Johnston: This is the one dead tree book I’ve bought this year. I was able to justify because I’m reading everything I can about writing and editing since I’ve been flying solo since last September.
• Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan: It’s by Jim Gaffigan making me think it should be a funny read.
• Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden: I find stories about North Korea to be fascinating and look forward to reading this tale about one man’s escape from a North Korean prison who eventually finds his way to the West.
• APE by Guy Kawasaki: While I’m not sure self publishing in my future, I have respect for Guy Kawasaki and appreciate his insights into book publishing after spending some time as a technical editor during the great computer book over publishing of the nineteen nineties
• The Content Pool by Alan J. Porter: I am a fan of XML Press and hope to learn something from the book about the business use of content to help me pursue corporate writing projects more effectively.
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg: This book is left over from my Summer 2012 Reading List. Habits have always been an area of interest for me. I have no better excuse for not getting to it last summer except that I spent more time on freelance projects than at the pool because I was preparing for a job layoff that eventually hit me the following September.

I always seem to have more time (or perhaps more excuses) for reading during the summer and hopefully that will remain unchanged for Summer 2013.

What books are you planning on reading this summer?