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eskoch28
The Pairing | Casey McQuiston
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Here is my #juneofarc wrap up! Link for reviews. Cole and Laila and the honeymoon were audiobooks and the pairing was a Kindle!

The pairing was the standout, but Cole and Laila was also lovely. The honeymoon was meh in the extreme

https://mylifewithinthepages.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/june-netgalley-wrap-up/

@BookmarkTavern

BookmarkTavern Woohoo! Excellent progress! 4mo
eskoch28 @BookmarkTavern definitely! I got through half of my backlog 🙌🙌🙌 4mo
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BookmarkTavern
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#MonthlyRoundup for June! Such a good month! So many unexpected good reads! 3 ARCs finished for #JuneOfARC and 8 read total! 🎉🎉🎉

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julesG
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After a successful #JuneOfARC I was wondering what to do for July - I want to continue eroding #MountARC.

Thanks @Kappadeemom for posting about #CampNetGalley.

And now that I've signed up there's a high chance I'll ignore all ARCs and just read whatever else looks interesting.

Ruthiella You know yourself so well! 😆 4mo
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Kappadeemom
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Anyone else download #CampNetGalley?

julesG @BookmarkTavern - I was wondering what to do after #JuneOfARC 4mo
BookmarkTavern Oh this looks fun! 🤩 4mo
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BookmarkTavern
Look to the Sun | Emmie Mears
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Good morning my #JuneOfARC littens, and thank you for coming along with me on this journey to work on our NetGalley backlogs!

We‘ve finished the month, and so I‘m wondering if there‘s any old ARC you read that you really want to recommend!

I was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed the tagged book! It ended up being much more hopeful than I had thought!

eskoch28 I spent the whole month fighting with my netgalley app 😭😭😭 but I got an audiobook and a digital book read! I'll make a post afterwhile 4mo
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I really enjoyed my non-fiction read and it wasn‘t old, but the next Flavia book by Alan Bradley was entertaining 😄 4mo
julesG I managed five ARCs 🎉 - my favourite was the tagged. About to be published. 4mo
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julesG Can't count, it was six. Just 152 more to read. 😉 4mo
MonicaLoves2Read I loved Paul Dorian's Pitch Dark. Of course, I love the series. Loved Linda Castillo's next one in the Kate Burkholder Series, Burning, also 4mo
BookmarkTavern @eskoch28 Good on you for persevering! @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Wonderful! @julesG Wow! Congrats! @Monica5 Sounds great! 4mo
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julesG
Book of Elsewhere | China Miville, Keanu Reeves
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#ShadowCat is doing yoga. Guess he needed some time on the mat.

I'll give him a few more minutes and continue with the tagged #ARC.

#NetGalley #MountARC
#CatsOfLitsy

Leftcoastzen Cat on a mat !😻👏😁 4mo
Jari-chan 😻😻😻 4mo
dabbe @Leftcoastzen #catmat! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
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AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 4mo
JessClark78 🖤 4mo
RaeLovesToRead If this is what "yoga" entails then turns out I do yoga all the time! ? 4mo
julesG @RaeLovesToRead lopsided corpse pose - one of his and my favourites 4mo
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julesG
Bump | Sidney Karger
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#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Wyatt and Biz have been a couple for quite some time. At the beginning of the book their relationship has hit a rough patch, despite this the two of them decide to have a child together via surrogacy. Fast forward to over a year later, the two still haven‘t repaired their relationship, but are embarking on a road trip from New York to California to be present at their child‘s birth.

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julesG The novel seems to be perfect for Pride Month. I just didn‘t like that the relationship problems of the two MCs were built on miscommunication and problems with their wider family. Not to mention that having a child is no way to fix a relationship.

This story might actually work better as a film than a novel.

4mo
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julesG
Ne'er Duke Well | Alexandra Vasti
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Pickpick

#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC
Expected publication: 23 July 2024

This Friends-To-Lovers romance reminded me of "Romancing Mister Bridgerton". A friend, in this case Lady Selina, is trying to help Lord Peter to find a suitable wife. He needs a respectable wife, because he wants to gain guardianship of his siblings and knows the judge presiding over his case has a grudge against him. By the time this book is set, Selina and Peter have known each ⬇️

julesG other for several years and there already is a lot of chemistry between them. I would have loved to see more of their encounters from the beginning of their friendship, their earlier chemistry. Still, Selina is adamant that one of the three ladies she picked for Peter would be much better suited than herself; she's hiding a huge secret from the 'ton' (yes, Lady Whistledown huge).⬇️ 4mo
julesG I liked the two MCs, they felt fully fleshed out. The reasons for their actions and also for Selina's secret are well-explained and made sense to me. The reader gets to see them realising their feelings for each other, the complications and how they overcome them. (Again, it has parallels to Romancing Mr Bridgerton - or maybe I just drew them since I recently re-read the book and watched the show.)⬇️ 4mo
julesG The secondary characters were great. I really want to know more about the individual quirks of the other three ladies and see them find their matches. And any sequel needs more Lu and Freddie, as well as aunt Judith and Thomasina. 4mo
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CarolynM Sounds good. I‘ll look out for it🙂 4mo
BookmarkTavern Sounds very sweet! 💖 4mo
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julesG
My Brother's Keeper | Tim Powers
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A supposedly spooky Brontë-esque story.

I think it would have worked better with any no-name family rather than the the Brontës.

Do not expect Brontë-esque prose either.

#NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
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julesG
Pole Position | Rebecca J. Caffery
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#ARC #MountARC #NetGalley

#MM #SportsRomance

Published already.

Unlikeable characters. Fanfiction writing. Lots of telling. Lots of things that needed editing and further development. And why invent words for F1 and F2, but then use actual teams and drivers' names from F1? Also, I'm just a lay-person when it comes to racing, but even I know the author got a lot of the terminology and procedures of racing wrong.

dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
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