Summer Reading List
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Thank you NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the ARC of Heidi Becker’s debut poetry collection Once Upon a Midnight Scroll! Have you ever read a book and felt like the author had looked into your mind and then wrote down everything they saw there but in a way that made so much more sense…
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Thank you NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the ARC of Lauren Lee Smith’s fantastic book The Night Pool! THIS BOOK. The synopsis sounded interesting, so I requested it. Interesting doesn’t begin to define it. Suspenseful, creepy, disturbing, heartwarming, sad; this book encompasses all of these emotions. Every time I had to put it aside to…
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Thank you NetGalley and ACTE IV for the review copy of “Dear Ophelia.” I understand what the author was trying to do with this book, but it didn’t work. It feels like it is trying to masquerade as a self-help book in verse but is afraid to go onto the dance floor. This is the…
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Thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for the ARC of “The Renoir Girls” by Catherine Ostler. I love Renoir’s work; I think he was a brilliant artist, his paintings have so much depth to them that you can look at them for hours without losing interest. I am familiar with the paintings referenced in this…
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Thank you NetGalley and Random House for the ARC of Fatimah Asghar’s beautiful collection of poetry Daughter of the Mountains. It is greatly appreciated. I can definitively say that Daughter of the Mountains by Fatimah Asghar is the best book I have read so far this year. Asghar’s poetry is absolutely beautiful, full of emotion.…
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Thank you very much NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this ARC of April Davila’s book sit. write. here. Take a book about writing: all the fun, fulfillment, and frustration; add in solid, science-backed benefits of meditation, and season with a dash of humor, and you have April Davila’s excellent book sit. write. here. This…
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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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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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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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