Goodreads Monday is a really simple weekly meme, hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog, where you choose a book at random from your Goodreads TBR and explain why you want to read it. This meme is also an opportunity to share any progress you have made on your current books, Goodreads Reading Challenge or anything else Goodreads related.
This week’s pick is: One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
I never anticipated Charlie Florek.
Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.
Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.
Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.
Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.
Why do I want to read it?:
I had never considered reading Carley Fortune, until recently. Now I have almost finished listening to Sam and Percy’s romance Every Other Summer, I want to read the Sam’s brother Charlie’s story and everything else by this author.
This week’s reading progress:
I read a novella series by Alice Hoffman – Once Upon a Bookshop Stories – which has four short stories, each around 35-40 pages each. I also read the first Finlay Donovan novel and I plan on reading the rest over the next few months. I really enjoyed it but I did have a sinking feeling in my stomach as I was reading, wondering how Finlay would get out of the mess she had made.
2025 Goodreads Reading Challenge: 64/75 books (85%)
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