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Fathers and Sons: Book 8 in the Beach Reading Series
228 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 17, 2026
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Mark Abramson
34 books38 followersMark Abramson was a bartender and producer of events such as "Pier Pressure" and "Men Behind Bars" before writing the "Beach Reading" series set in San Francisco's Castro District. He is also working on a memoir called "Castro Street Diaries." "
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March 4, 2026
Welcome back, old friends!
I have read the previous installments of Mark Abramson's Beach Reading series, so when I learned he was writing a new one--after a good decade or more--I was excited to see what the boys (and girls) were up to.
I thought that after all this time I might need to reread the older books to refresh my memory of the characters and their relationships before I tackled the new volume--and it wouldn't have hurt me to do so--but I jumped in and I was happy to find that the characters and their histories came back to me pretty well. And Abramson refreshes our memories and provides a little history for new readers who don't know the backstories, so it was fun to jump in with both feet and catch up with the characters, almost as if no time had passed at all.
This time around we get to know more about main character Tim Snow's deceased psychic grandmother as Tim finds her diary and reads what she wrote many years earlier. The book was mostly just a lot of fun, but I have to admit to being caught off guard and tearing up at one moment toward the end of the book in a scene that included a surprise guest at a wedding. I'm just an old softie, I guess.
I have read the previous installments of Mark Abramson's Beach Reading series, so when I learned he was writing a new one--after a good decade or more--I was excited to see what the boys (and girls) were up to.
I thought that after all this time I might need to reread the older books to refresh my memory of the characters and their relationships before I tackled the new volume--and it wouldn't have hurt me to do so--but I jumped in and I was happy to find that the characters and their histories came back to me pretty well. And Abramson refreshes our memories and provides a little history for new readers who don't know the backstories, so it was fun to jump in with both feet and catch up with the characters, almost as if no time had passed at all.
This time around we get to know more about main character Tim Snow's deceased psychic grandmother as Tim finds her diary and reads what she wrote many years earlier. The book was mostly just a lot of fun, but I have to admit to being caught off guard and tearing up at one moment toward the end of the book in a scene that included a surprise guest at a wedding. I'm just an old softie, I guess.
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