A summer without a lazy weekend by the pool, or on the back porch with a Sarah Kate Lynch novel is a summer I don’t want to have. This summer I’m doing a reread. The Wedding Bees: Great lazy weekend read.

We’re back again. We will always be back. Ms. Lynch is and ever will be one of my all time favorite authors. She cannot write enough novels for me. I am so lost in the people and situations – the lives that she gives breath to with pen, and page, and binding. There is a magic, a moment of transcendence I remember from the first story I read as a child, that is harder and harder to regain when we lose part of the magical thinking of childhood. With her novels I transcend myself, I am in this world that exists only on page, spun out from her imagination.

The Wedding Bees I can say, without hesitation, is where my desire to have an apiary really took root. There was of course Sherlock Holmes and his country retirement. But the depth of research put into The Wedding Bees is as fathomless as the as the characters Ms. Lynch, brings so effortlessly to life.

A story can’t stand without plot, but without beautiful characterization it’s not worth reading. In The Wedding Bees beautiful characters are at the center of the story. People whose lives Sugar Wallace pops into, inspiring, and encouraging them to seize their life’s potential, until she finally meets a group of people that encourages her to grasp her own happiness.

The Wedding Bees is a story of possibility. Nothing fits into an early summer afternoon read so well as possibility.

Have you read a book that felt full of possibility?