If You Can’t Travel to Paris … Read About It!

In a few days, I will be catching a flight to … Luxembourg City! Now why on earth would I fly into this small, overlooked city-state when flying into a nearby major city like Paris or Frankfurt would be a cheaper alternative? Because Paris is going downhill. Kind of. I had originally booked a direct ticket to Paris, but after news that ISIS was issuing more threats towards the West during Ramadan (I was going to be in Paris during Ramadan), my already-worried mom freaked out, I freaked out, and we decided that Paris was not the place to be when ISIS was issuing a major threat to the West. So, we booked a flight for me straight from Paris to Luxembourg City to avoid all the Paris madness.

Beach Reads

I’m usually open to any genre, any type of book. But when it comes to beachside reading, I admit that I’m drawn to easy, fluid reads. Books that you can let your mind gloss over but still feel captivated by the plot, books read purely for entertainment. Maybe it’s the hot sun turning my brain to mush, but those are the kind of books I like to read at the beach. As we have been in Sicily for the past week, we’ve spent A LOT of time at the beach, and that means A LOT of time to read some pretty relaxing but captivating, borderline sappy, books. With my Kindle in hand, these are the books I’ve been reading this week.