Reading Binge

I finished another book today. Once in awhile I go on a reading binge. This is one of those times. Reading is one of my escapes. Today I felt the need to escape.
I used to have this other life. I am not going to pretend I liked it better than my current life. For 31 years I lived somewhere else. When the nice weather starts, I miss my old yard. I had an area enclosed by a privacy fence. For years, I had some kind of above ground pool. It got smaller as the years passed and the kids left. It was always my favorite place to be. Laying on an air mattress looking at a blue sky. My neighbors had a big beautiful tree I liked to look at. It was so peaceful. My little world. Could not even begin to guess how many books I read in or next to the pool. Sitting in the sun and reading. Floating in a pool and relaxing. No privacy in my backyard now. No pool. Not even a place to sit and read without the possibility of being watched by all the neighbors. Don't get me wrong. There are more positives about my new life than negatives. Today I felt like mourning the loss of my pool. That explains why two books were finished today.
There was also a pattern in the titles of my books. I feel like I read this book before. I did not recognize all of it. Parts of it felt familiar. Usually, if I have already read a book I know on the first page. This was not the case. If I did not read it before, I read a similar story. That can happen when someone reads as many books as I read. Here is a short synopsis from the back of the book:
Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. This summer will not be like any other. When prominent attorney Arch Newton dies in a plane crash his beautiful widow, Beth, can hardly keep things together. She decides that she must continue the family tradition of going to Nantucket, and at the same time fulfill a promise that Arch made before he died.
This is a good story. It is filled with the theme of first loves and love lost. There are teenagers that fall in love for the first time. Adults that never got over their first love. Plus the main character dealing with the loss of her husband. It is a nice story. Easy to read. Hard to put down. Great book to take on vacation. Obviously, it was a good book to lose myself in this afternoon.