Another great reading month for me in June. But I am short on time and just want to get my books posted so no dilly dallying today. Here is what I read in June.
Atmosphere – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Great book. A little science/space, a lot of life & love.
It’s the 1980’s and Joan Goodwin, who has been obsessed with space her whole life is selected as one one the first women in to the NASA space shuttle program. There she meets her fellow trainees and friendships and relationships develop. There’s already been so much written about this book, but I do think it is one that the less you know going in, the better off you are.
“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum – Antonia Hylton
I read Madness as part of Sharon MacMahon’s Governor’s bookclub. I finished quickly and we haven’t yet discussed the book or met with the author but I have some thoughts. This is the (true) story of Crownsville Hospital a segregated asylum in Maryland. I found it utterly heartbreaking and somewhat timely as our country decides who will or won’t receive the care that they need. I do recommend this book, but tread lightly. It is a toughie! I am not saying don’t read it, but you may need to take breaks or be in the right headspace.
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Seven Summer Weekends – Jane Rosen
This is the 2nd book in Rosen’s Fire Island series and I found it completely enjoyable. Addison has a major faux paux at work and finds herself jobless just as she inherits her distant aunt’s Fire Island summer home. She winds up heading to the island and her inherited home is next to the widow that we met in book one. Well done beach read, perfect for the summer.
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The Death of Us – Abigail Dean
The Death of Us is a slow moving/slow burn telling of a marriage and lives completely turned upside down one fateful night when a violent serial intruder completely upends everything. This is a multiple timeline novel as we move between that horrible event and many years later as a trial occurs. While I found this incredibly well written, I did get lost in the slowness of it at times.
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How to Win at Travel – Brian Kelly
Written by “The Points Guy” I can’t say I truly learned a lot about traveling with points, but it was well organized and would be a great book for someone to really learn about how to make the most of points.
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Songs of Summer – Jane Rosen
I requested advanced readers copy based title & description and didn’t know it was a sequel of 2 former books. I went ahead and read those first, and loved them both. This one probably could be read as a stand alone since there is so much review of the past, but I was glad I had waited and read the others. I did enjoy the continuing sagas of our Fire Island friends, but 30 year old Maggie is the main character here as she searches for her birth mother. Warm & tender hearted, a good beach read. Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion. Songs of Summer is now available.
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The Ghostwriter – Julie Clark
I did mostly enjoy this lates by Julie Clark but it wan’t my favorite that she has written. It was a little drawn out and perhaps slower than I was craving. Entertaining enough! Thank you to NetGalley and SOURCEbooks Landmark for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review. The Ghostwriter is now available.
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Practice Makes Perfect – Sarah Adams
Enjoyable fluff. I will continue on with the 3rd book in the series, this entire series are great lighter reads to fill in between something more intense.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal – Sarah Adams
This is the 3rd is the Rome, KY series. How do these somewhat famous people keep winding up in Rome, KY? This was my least favorite of the series but still was enjoyable. A bit more spicy than the others. I suspect Meg’s story will be next and will round out this family’s romance series.
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The River is Waiting – Wally Lamb
This book was too sad, too devastating, too everything for me. And Corby’s voice (audio) just didn’t work for me. I know I am in the minority here, but I just didn’t enjoy it really at all. I especially didn’t like the ending.
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