pick🏠 I love how Mary Alice Monroe weaves a friendly let‘s-take-care-of-our-environment message into her stories. This one has a great parallel between loggerhead sea turtles and mother/daughter relationships. And there‘s a beach house! With a dose of girl power and a pinch of romance the story felt well-rounded. I think I‘ll be continuing the series!
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🌴 Taken at our beach house rental in Floribama
pickThis one was so much better than the first book!
First off, I have to preface this review by saying I have seen the second season of the show, so I did know a lot of the plot points going into the book and obviously wasn‘t surprised by some of the things that happened.
This book was much more emotional than the first.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/review-its-not-summer-without-you...
pickFor several years I wanted too visit EH where her Nantucket series began. But when older books are not on my physical shelves it‘s hard to pull them from my TBR. I was thrilled when my June #DoubleSpin challenged me with category: Ebook TBR. Some of this 2000 contemporary writing doesn‘t quite work as contemporary fiction 25 years later, but still it was a fun to read the book where the Nantucket series began.
Currently reading The Beach House in Orange Beach, Alabama. My husband and I are renting a beach house here with my family from Kansas. Today while I was reading by the beach my niece brought me a pina colada so, yes, it was a good day! 🏖️📖🍹💙
pickA cute summer read! Really captures the anticipation and angst of summer romances.
#bookspinbingo
#tbrtarot (I forgot I had this one already on my list for this month, so I‘m using it instead of the book I previously picked out)
#read2025
pickI am a huge fan of the show and of her other series, To All the Boys I‘ve Loved Before, so I figured it was finally time to read this series. This book wasn‘t as exciting as the show, but it was still an enjoyable read.
The first half of the book was a little slow and heavy on flashbacks.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/review-the-summer-i-turned-pretty...
If you‘re going to the beach today be nice to your park staff! #memorialday #beach #summer #kobo
so-soI am very much not the audience this book, but my daughter wanted to listen to it on our drive today. I‘m just too old, but I think I would have liked it more if I read it on a sunny beach instead of on a rainy drive down I-95.
