Sentence examples for vacation reading from inspiring English sources

I spent my summer vacation reading four biographies of Mme. de Pompadour in a row.

By Judith Thurman I spent my summer vacation reading four biographies of Mme. de Pompadour in a row.

Still, President Obama's aides were happy to let it be known that his vacation reading list included a biography of the 40th president by Lou Cannon.

That's because high school teachers, eager for their students to read something more challenging this summer than comic books and instant messages, are assigning vacation reading.

Thanks to e-mail, Twitter and the blogosphere, I regularly exchange information with hundreds of people in a single day: scheduling meetings, sharing political gossip, trading edits on a book chapter, planning a family vacation, reading tech punditry.

(Power said at the announcement that she knew she wanted to work for then Senator Obama when he told her that he'd spent "a large chunk of his vacation reading a long, dark book about genocide").

President Obama, spending part of late August in Martha's Vineyard, has a coveted early copy on his stack of vacation reads.

Molly: My earliest and best memories are of coming to Bunch of Grapes and sitting upstairs in the kids section picking out my vacation reads.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads, because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

With its vivid Greek island setting, it was an ideal vacation read; and, at 21, I was just about the perfect age for it, for it's a book about the awful arrogance, but also the wonderful susceptibility, of youth.

Among its many attractions, Manteo has a fantastic independent bookstore, Manteo Booksellers, where you can pick up your vacation read.