Welcome to Booking Through Thursday, a weekly bookish meme about books and reading for everyone who loves both. Booking Through Thursday was first hosted by Deb. With permission, I’ve restarted it in 2026.
This week’s prompt:
In honor of all the upcoming spring breaks—and breaks in general—what kinds of books do you like to read while on vacation?
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What kinds of books do you like to read on vacation?
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I don’t know if I have a type of book I read on vacation. I think the best part of vacation reading is the anticipation of so much reading, whether that comes true or not.
Way back in the day, when we headed out to the Oregon coast over the summer, when my dad had a break from teaching, we always made at least one stop at a used bookstore. And used bookstores along the coast were used books, shells, stuff-you-don’t-need-but-is-cool-anyway, more shells (many not even from the Pacific coast), swimsuits, towels, all covered with a layer of sand.
It was the best.
So, I’d say, my favorite vacation reading is finding those hidden (if sand-covered) gems.
100% agreed! The best part of a vacation is making connections, discovering new things, adventures! Your treks out to the Oregon coast sound wonderful!
It’s been so long since we’ve been on anything like a proper vacation — there have been too many overnight trips to pick up our child from university, too many out of state emergencies and funerals that ate our vacation time, and now there’s the 94-year-old who lives with us — that I barely remember what I used to read when we were lakeside (vacation = lakeside as far as I’m concerned). There may have been stacks of magazines — Vogue, Allure, Style, Gardening Illustrated, maybe a back issue or two of the New Yorker, Cooks Illustrated, etc. — and almost certainly a memoir I’d had my eye on or a new release in a favorite mystery series, etc. Certainly nothing challenging. My goals during a vacation were to swim, walk the beach, collect rocks & shells, read, live on cheese and crackers and dips… I have a hunch that were I to have a vacation now, these goals would remain unchanged.
Vacations are a distant, fond memory. Haven’t taken one in decades. 🙁 If I were ever lucky enough to experience something like that again, I’d probably read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I’ve heard great things!
I’m thinking I might have to pick up Project Hail Mary this summer. I’ve been hearing good things as well.