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Here‘s my #BookSpinBingo card for June!
My #Bookspin book Is Travels with Charley and
my #doublespin book is The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan.
I made my board by stamping on a printed Bingo card, and writing with Zebra Clickart markers.
Thank you @TheAromaofBooks !

This one was so good! It may be one of my favorites of the year! Its about siblings that didn‘t know each other existed and they all embark on a road trip to find and confront their dad. The wit and humor was perfect. It was an easy read but still had a lot of heart.

A YA retelling of Thelma and Louise, where two teens with horrible home lives decide to split town and go somewhere where they can live on their own terms. Some things were improbable, but not really outlandishly so. If you can just go along for the ride, it‘s entertaining enough!

#readordonate
#bookspinbingo
#read2025

Started this one on my lunch break. I can already tell that I‘m going to like it!

Yesterday, once we seemed to clear the weather and traffic, I remembered I had this book on my phone from Libby. Good choice for a road trip!

It‘s also a good choice for #hyggehourreadathon because there‘s something very cozy to me about armchair travel.

My husband made chicken cordon bleu for dinner, and it was delicious! Now I‘m settled in with my book and the Yankees-Dodgers on TV. Trying very hard to ignore the news.

I‘m afraid this one is headed back to the library unread. A road trip novel isn‘t appealing this soon after reading the ultimate feel good road trip book, The Road to Tender Hearts. Maybe I‘ll pick it up later and give it a fair chance.

Run for the Hills, by Kevin Wilson (2025)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: Very different people become an unlikely family discover they share the same father and embark on a cross-country road trip to find him and ask why he abandoned them all to forge very different lives for himself.

Review: Wilson is the king of profound but off-kilter fiction, and this is no exception. Cont.

I‘ve been using Libro.fm solely for this year and partially for a few more, and I‘ve hit a point of having the same number of finished and unfinished books. 😁🎉 Still not anywhere close to the 900+ I own on Audible, but I love supporting my local bookstore.

I‘m really enjoying Run for the Hills! Fun fact: Marin Ireland narrates both it and My Friends. I like her as a narrator. She‘s one that will swing me to the audio side.

1. Trivia last night didn‘t earn us any prizes, but I got a book recommendation.
2. I created my list of 14 books and in the process streamlined my StoryGraph tags.
3. Last Friday: program on aging which included a cooking demo, peonies seen during my walk at the lake, town hall with my congresswoman.
4. She liked my USNA shirt. Annapolis is part of the district as well as where she lives.
5. Cookout on Saturday. More in comments.
#5joysfriday