SUMMER RECOMMENDATIONS 🌤 beach reads, summery movies & tv shows and ideas to romanticize summer!
Happy summertime, friends! In today’s video I recommend some summery/beachy books, movies, tv shows and …
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March 2, 2026
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Hi, Desi, if your really like films like Dirty Dancing and Only you, then you are really my sister from another mister ! I LOVE those movies,. Pesonal recommendations from my side are .A. Story with Steve Marin and Victoria Tennant ( his former wife in real life ) a magic story about true love. Funny as well as romantic. And Cocktail with Tom Cruise and Elizabeth Shue in the leading roles. . Even a romantic Love Story. Fun Fact: The parent-trap is one of my traditional christmas movies, it came one year on christmas day on TV and since then i became my tradition , to watch that movie on christmas day
Books recommended by her:
1) Every Summer After (by Sally Fortune)
2) Part of Your World (by Abby Jiminez)
3) The Secret Love Letters of Olivia Moretti (by Jennifer Probst)
4) One Italian Summer (by Rebecca Serle)
5) The Summer of Broken Rules (by K.L. Walther)
6) A Sky Painted Gold (by Laura Wood)
7) Fable (by Adrienne Young)
8) Namesake (by Adrienne Young)
(NOTE: Fabe and Namesake are a diology, so the order is as it is listed above)
9) The Other Bennet Sister (by Janice Hadlow)
10) Jane in Love (by Rachel Givner)
(NOTE: The books on 9 and 10 are recommended for Jane Austen fans)
Thank you for recommending Every Summer After. I paused the Video and purchased the audiobook right away, so delighted that it's set in Ontario. Have you read This Sumner Will Be Different by Carley Fortune too? I ordered it when I was halfway through Every Summer After and thought of you right away because it's set on PEI and there are several Anne of Green Gables references 🥰
Diane Keaton Vibes forever
So gorgeous. Makes me want a Polaroid so I can print lil pics on the go for my journal only.
Hi,can you make Summerween vlog for Halloween lover and Gravity Fall Lover pls.Have a God Summer bye ♡˖*.｡🌻🍉🧺
Beautiful Creatures girlfriend!! The perfect summer movie!
I AM a coastal grandmother- I highly recommend it! ha ha
For me Mamma Mia is the PERFECT summer movie….☀️🌸I love this movie do much….💗
I haven’t seen the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie, but the books are soooooo good!!!
Activities recommended by her:
▪︎Climb tree and read a book
▪︎Go cloud walking
▪︎Make lemonade and watch a movie
▪︎Make a fort and watch a movie
▪︎Have a water day like in Beach,lake or river
▪︎Go for a drive, with a summer playlist with a cone and watch sunset
▪︎Have s'more while watching a horror movie
▪︎Make a blueberry lavender granola bowl for breakfast [ She gave recipe for it btw ]
▪︎Make a berry cake
▪︎Put a cute outfit and go to farmer market
▪︎Watch 80s movies
▪︎Have a "no – phone" day
Movies recommendation by her:
•Mama mia [Season one and two]
•The sisterhood of the travelling pants
•Only you
•Dirty Dancing
•The parent trap [I have watched this and i highly recommend]
•To catch a Thief
•The last song
•Cheaper by the dozen 2
•Hannah Montana [ I watched this i felt it was boring but u can try ]
•Aquamarine [I have watched this too and its a bit cringe but its good]
Its summer in Australia now…this is such a beautiful page and I love how your videos for each season bring about a fresh appreciation for them.
here are 5 MOVIES I think fits the vibes
Under the Tuscan Sun it's a beautiful movie set in italy, with lovely characters and uplifting energy, found family, independent women
It's Complicated with alec baldwin, meryl streep and steve martin
Moonrise kingdom by wes anderson, two young teens in love decide to runaway together and camp in a hidden beach, with trails, small island, camp scouts, and summer rain, also bruce willis and bill murray
talented mr ripley – either the alain delon or the jude law one, great mystery set in italy and old money vibes
Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez
no phone days have helped immensely
Mamma Mia is also a great summer movie I watch it every summer and the Notebook they go to the beach in one scene and it’s set in the summer
"Call me by your name". It is my favorite movie. Height of summer in a small Italian town and two young men falling in love. This kind of love is the most intense. The one that you will remember your whole life. I cried so much in the end. The book is also great. Quite explicit, so not a teen movie or book for sure.
Stop normalizing the grind and normalize this kind of life
The parent trap is basically a book written by Erich Kästner: Das doppelte Lottchen.
I love your taste in books and films! I recently bought Every Summer After and I really look forward to reading it; I love lakes! I also read One Italian Summer and I absolutely hated it because of the main character. I also have To Catch A Thief on my to watch list. It seems like such a summer movie! Love you Desi ❤
This summer I’ve put in an application to volunteer at a local animal sanctuary and I feel like one morning a week I can help out and get to know their individual little personalities ❤
This year is my first year driving. I have a little green sage fiat 500 and it feels so vintage to drive! This makes me feel so happy this summer, I’m 37 and took a long while to get here driving. Every time I get in the car I feel so excited and play inspiring imaginative music and drive along the coast where I live. I live on a coastal island called the Isle of Wight in the uk. Queen Victoria used to live here and there is alot of Victorian era buildings here
I live dirty dancing. I remember watching it as a kid with my friends family 😅 and loving it. I recently started playing the songs and grease for my 9 year old daughter and she loved them!
The spoon you were using with your blueberry lavender granola reminds me of the spoon on the cover of The Golden Spoon, which I’m currently reading. Also, have you heard of the TV Show called Summerland? It’s starring a younger Zac Efron and Jesse McCartney, and one of the Panabaker sisters from Disney Channel. I’m surprised it’s not in your recommendations! It was one of my obsessive favorites while it was airing. It was probably on the CW
❤❤❤❤❤❤ summer has just gotten so exciting! Thanks for sharing, I grew up in RI and spent time at the beach and walking thru nature. You’ve reminded me of all those pleasures!
probably the most wholesome and satisfying youtube video I've watched this year
Now and then is my number one summer movie. So many great memories ❤
My list is now and then, the parent trap, Independence Day, Dennis the menace, Jurassic park, jaws, beaches, splash and I know I’m missing a ton.
Just finished 'The Queen of Diamonds' by Jason Diggle. The ending made my jaw drop – Awesome book and thoroughly recommended.
A good book for the “Dirty Dancing” vibes is “Meet Me At the Lake”.
I’m enjoying your videos so much! I’m an autumn and spring girlie who does struggle a lot in summer. This video inspired me a lot! I’m working on setting up a reading nook on my back patio that’s very inspired by Practical Magic…which is a summer and autumn movie in my mind! Also embracing coastal grandma 100% 🐚 💙 ☀️
I’ve never watched your channel before but I LOVED this video!!!
I like The Last Song as well. Any thing Nicholas Sparks is beachy and summery I find
Two other great Summery movies are : Roman Holiday and Sabrina (90's version).🤗👍