Brrrrr! Cold Books and Movies for Hot Weather

The weather outside is a sunny 99 degrees and as I was outside running errands in this weather, I did my best to imagine myself cold. My dad always told us kids to do that whenever we complained about the heat. So I recalled this past winter when the thermometer dipped below freezing and my fingers and cheeks ached with cold. I longed for a bright and balmy summer day. I sought out beach reads and fun-in-the-sun movies like The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and Dirty Dancing.

Well call me fickle, but now that the sweat is trickling down my back, I'd like to escape to a winter wonderland. If you are like-minded and need a mental chill, take a snow day and check out one of these to watch:

• Fargo
• Better Off Dead
• The Day After Tomorrow
• Smilla's Sense of Snow
• The Shining

or these to read:

• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• 61 Hours by Lee Child
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbo 

Settle in, grab a popsicle, and imagine yourself cold.

What other books and movies give you frostbite?