Summer Reading List

So I have a TON of books that have piled up for reading this summer. Here they are, and a ranking if I've read any of them so far.

The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan *****
Fragile Eternity - Melissa Marr ****
Suck It Up - Brian Meehl ****
Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick *****
Radiant Shadows - Melissa Marr ****
The Oracle Betrayed - Catherine Fisher ***
International Librarianship - Robert D. Stueart *****
The Keys to the Kingdom - The entire Garth Nix series (7 books)
The Warrior Heir - Cinda Williams Chima
The Sorceress - Michael Scott
The Black Book of Secrets - F.E. Higgins
The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick***
The Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
Old Magic - Marianne Curley***
Evermore - Alyson Noel
Oracles of Delphi Keep - Victoria Laurie
Death's Daughter - Amber Benson****
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer
Savor the Moment - Nora Roberts
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
Skullduggery - Aaron Elkins
Heat Wave - Richard Castle****

As you can see, I haven't really gotten to too many of the books on this list. I'm hoping to get through all of them by the time fall semester starts at the end of August.

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. :D

Summer in Missouri

Summer here in Missouri is VERY different than summer in Walla Walla, WA! Today it is 88 degrees outside, but feels like it's 106 degrees! I'm just glad we have a pool at our apartment complex. Now, WW normally gets warm by now, but for some reason this summer they seem to be having a strange, rainy summer...very weird. 

One thing that I completely LOVE here are the thunder and lightning storms in the evenings!!!! They are so BEAUTIFUL! 

Pre-lightning photo w/o camera flash



During lightning photo w/o camera flash



The pictures totally don't do the storm justice! The whole sky was brought to life at 2 am by the thunder and lightning. It looked like it was daytime with the amount of lightning in the sky! :)