Maybe it’s the public library’s summer reading programs that my brother and I participated in every year as children. Maybe it’s the Pre-AP and AP summer reading assignments that I did – and actually enjoyed – as a teen. Or maybe it’s the summers between semesters in college when I finally got a chance to read something besides textbooks.

The point is this: for whatever reason, I love summer reading. I love it for “all its suggestion of soft breezes and cheap thrills,” as The New York Times ArtsBeat blogger Jennifer Schuessler once described it.

If you are following @LTFtraining on Twitter (and you should be!), you’ll see the hashtag #summerreading appear on our Twitter feed periodically throughout the day. Today, The New York Times’ The Learning Network is hosting a Twitter chat around summer reading lists, plans, or thoughts about summer reading in general. The best tweets will be retweeted by The Times.

LTF English Coordinator Michelle Stie-Buckles, who told me about this event, tweeted this earlier: 

Here are some other ideas by Katherine Schulten to get you started:

• What you want to read — or have to read — this summer.
• Wonderful, or awful, memories of summer reading
• Quotes about summer reading, or about reading in general
• Book recommendations for others
• Tips for getting students to read in the summer
• Links to booklists, contests and other resources
• Summer book-club ideas
• Visuals! Summer-book photos might be worth 1,000 words…
• Summer site-specific recommendations: best beach books, camping books, car-trip audio books, family-reunion books, etc.
• Best places to summer-read, or best things to eat and drink while summer reading