Summer Reading List
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My list has gotten a little out of order, and I’ve had a couple surprise additions. Well, maybe not such a surprise, as I requested these extra titles from NetGalley, but they weren’t put on the SRL because I didn’t know if I was going to be blessed by the Book Gods. (Spoiler: I was.)…
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Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC of Julie Gerstenblatt’s new book The Stargazer of Nantucket. Any book associated with nineteenth century seafaring is going to catch my eye, fiction or nonfiction. Julie Gerstenblatt’s newest book had all of the elements that I feel make a good sea story: the adventure and…
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Book two of my SRL is Chera Hammons’ stunning poetry collection Birds of America. Thank you NetGalley and Random House for the ARC of Birds of America. It is greatly appreciated! It is rare that I rate a book five stars, but this is a truly beautiful collection of poetry and more than deserves it.…
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Book one of my Summer Reading List is Sarah Nicole Lemon’s A Dark and Wild Wood, kindly gifted by NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager. A Dark and Wild Wood is due for publication on May 26, 2026. Bluebeard meets the Brothers Grimm in this dark fantasy. I love the protagonist Salome’s personality: she’s strong-minded,…
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Hello Friends! It’s Memorial Day weekend here in the US, and for this reader girl, that means multiple parades (youngest son is a drummer in his high school marching band), pausing to pay respect to people that laid down their lives in service to the country that they believed in, and plenty of time to…
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(This is also a book on my Summer Reading List, so you’re getting a 2 for 1 update!) David Gate’s essay and poetry collection “A Rebellion of Care” is beautiful. Gate writes from the heart, giving readers pieces of himself as he contemplates his life and loves. He reminds us that “joy is an act…
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Hello Friends! Thank you to all of you who come back again and again to read my rambling book posts, I appreciate every one of you. This is the time of year that I post a monster list of books I plan to read over the summer, my self-appointed Summer Reading List. There are 14…
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