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Book lovers: Listen up.
If you have a summer job, what better way to spend your money than on some new summer reads?And if you're still looking for a summertime gig, what better job for a book fiend than your local bookstore?
Regardless of your predicament, here are the top five reads on my summer list and the only tip you'll need to get that bookstore job (so you can spend more money on books).
Book buys:
On the Road is a '50s classic about the counterculture — think jazz, drugs and more — that makes hipsters seem as straight as Baby Boomers. It's also renowned for being written on a 120-foot typewriter scroll. Tap into this literary classic when you're poolside or biding time on the plane.
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
2. 'Hyperbole and a Half' by Allie BroshBorn from an eponymous online blog, Hyperbole and a Half is unpretentious and hilarious. A journey through the ups and downs of Millennial life, its short stories are both relatable and totally unique.
"Тo me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at eight hundred miles per hour."
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip PullmanRemember the days before dense college texts were all you knew? Shamelessly slip back into the Young Adult genre with this fantasy adventure tale. Even if you've seen The Golden Compass movie, you're going to want to read the first book, and its sequels. Cozy up with a tale of unknown realms, otherworldly magic, glittering cities, and talking animals.
"We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair."
4. Century Trilogy by Ken FollettThis trilogy is an epic with family scandal, politics, and war — which, if you're anything like me, sounds like the perfect literary storm. The first book follows five families in the years of WWI and the Russian Revolution from battlefield to bedroom and riches to rags. Beware: It's close to 1,000 pages, so make sure you've got downtime to get addicted!
"A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out."
5. 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' by Ramona AusubelEmpty bank accounts. Goods taken for granted now gone. A familial fall from grace. An end to stability. Sons and Daughters is this summer's much-raved about new release, and with good reason. Pick this up if you want an imaginative read with a dash of drama and some deep insight on wealth and class in America.
"The long-ago earning of that money — slaves, cotton, rum — and the spending of it, were done. The money had lived its own life, like a relative."
BookRiot has written up a handy little guide listing five tips to help you get that summertime book store job. From getting your foot in the door, to writing the perfect cover letter – make sure you read up before you apply to your local literary hub.
Julia Arciga is a student at George Washington University and a USA TODAY College correspondent.
Source: To the bookworms of summer: Ways to spend -- and earn -- money on books
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