SummerWinterReads

The Summer We Came To Life | Deborah Cloyed

Day 20 #JuneBookBugs #summerwinterreads Catching up on yesterday's photo challenge prompts. With the lack of breezes & increased humidity this week, I think I would prefer reading about winter weather rather than summer, but here are three of each from my Goodreads 'read' & #TBR stacks. One day I WILL read Winter People... (How many times have I said that?!) 🌞❄️📚

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amywithbooks I loved The Winter People. It's a good book for around Halloween (which is my favorite time to read horror books- I usually binge on horror in October!) 8y

mcctrish Winter People is really good, Jennifer McMahon has to be good to to get me to read out of my comfort zone 8y

asiriusreader The Winger People is so creepy! Loved that one! 8y

southerninlaw I have the top three on my TBR list - but now I'm adding the bottom three too! 8y

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rubyslippersreads

The Long Winter | Laura Ingalls Wilder

This cover is truer to the story than the jolly snowball fight scene I've seen before. #summerwinterreads #junebookbugs

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LeahBergen Or it should have just one big "hay twist" on the cover. ? I was both fascinated and appalled at that when I was a kid! 8y

rubyslippersreads Really! 😄 I was even more appalled rereading it as an adult. I'm surprised they survived. 8y

Zelma I have never seen alternate covers for these books. Very nice! 8y

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Purrfectpages

Summerland: A Novel | Elin Hilderbrand

I couldn't decide which direction to go in for #summerwinterreads so I ended up picking two books that fit the theme by the same author. #junebookbugs

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️ Elin Hilderbrand 8y

litmuggle I loved her Christmas series i can't wait to read more of her other books 8y

MemoirsForMe I have Here's to Us on my #TBR. Been wanted to read her books too. 8y

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Jas16

The Winter of Our Discontent | John Steinbeck

#summerwinterreads #junebookbugs

While I do have a weakness for holiday books, I will read whatever whenever including Christmas books in summer.

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FairyHighRoad

The Vacationers: A Novel | Emma Straub

Some more TBR books - my #SummerWinterReads ☀️ ❄️ #junebookbugs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love Wintrt Garden!! 8y

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Jess_Read_This

Lost Lake | Sarah Addison Allen

"After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end." -Lost Lake

"The Icelandic tradition of reading a new book on Christmas Eve, and into the early hours of the morning, had been important in his family's home" -Snow Blind

#SummerWinterReads #JuneBookBugs #SummerRead #WinterRead #NordicNoir #SarahAddisonAllen #RagnarJonaddon #Recommend

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Cathythoughts Yes I've read Ragnar Jonassons books set in Iceland. Very good ! He has a new one , White Blind, coming out in September. I really like our hero, Ari Thor. And The Icelandic setting is interesting, especially the town cut off except for a tunnel & when it snows, cut off completely. I love the flow of his writing. 👍 8y

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts I can't wait for the new one! He's definitely a favorite author of mine. When Ari buys himself a book on Christmas Eve it just broke my heart. That quote and scene really stood out in Snow Blind for me. 8y

Cathythoughts What about Lost Lake ? I have never read this author? 8y

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Cathythoughts I have the new Ari Thor ordered on my kindle. It's out in September, great to find a fellow fan 👍👍 8y

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts She's totally different than Ragnar Jonasson. Not even the same genre. She has a whimsical writing style and incorporates a few magical circumstances in her modern day stories set in the South. Each book usually involves a family tragedy, secret, and the eventual overcoming of the circumstance and finding love along the way. She does have a gorgeous writing style though. Just very different than Jonasson's. 8y

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts I love that it comes out In September! I last heard October! But I was going to order a print copy from Book Depository. (edited) 8y

Cathythoughts Cathythoughts@Jess_Read_This This is my attempt at tagging ( not so up to date on all this, however, live & learn ). I will give Allen a try soon and get back to you 😉 8y

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts Oh neat! This one is one of her newer ones. My favorites are really her older books-I'll tag them here.

The Sugar Queen

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts I really liked Garden Spells.

Garden Spells

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts

Peach Keeper

Jess_Read_This @Cathythoughts Let me know what you think of whichever one you try! She's got a few more but I tagged the ones that stood out for me.

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Cathythoughts Great. Thankyou. I've stacked Garden Spells. However, as soon as I finish It ( longer than War & Peace I'd say ) I'm onto Pachinko, and then I'll take up Garden Spells. The joys of Litsy !! I'm finding great books 👍 8y

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LeahBergen

King Richard the Third | William Shakespeare

I haven't been able to get this line out of my head since reading today's prompt. 😄
#SummerWinterReads
#JuneBookBugs

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writerlibrarian Such a good one. 👊🏻 8y

rubyslippersreads I thought of that too, although as a #Ricardian, I can't support Shakespeare's version. 😄 8y

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PurpleyPumpkin

The Hating Game: A Novel | Sally Thorne

Some books I'm hoping to read this summer and some that I plan on reading around Christmas. #summerwinterreads #day20 #junebookbugs

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Roselyn_Reads I've heard great things about The Hating Game 8y

Zelma I love those Christmas covers! 😍 8y

aizekj I love, love, love The Hating Game! Definitely one of the best books I read last year. 8y

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AmandaL I loved The Hating Game too! 8y

RealLifeReading I have that copy of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus but really want to get the rest of those books! 8y

PurpleyPumpkin @Silent_Whispers Me too! I'm looking forward to it. 😉 8y

PurpleyPumpkin @Zelma I found this series last Christmas and had to buy them all! They're published by Penguin for their Christmas Classics series. 8y

PurpleyPumpkin @aizekj @AmandaL Glad to hear it! I'll be reading it soon... 8y

PurpleyPumpkin @RealLifeReading I already had one story by other publishers, but had to buy it again to complete this series. I'm glad I did. 👍🏽 (edited) 8y

erzascarletbookgasm So there are four in this Christmas series? I have all except the Santa Claus one, must search for it. Nice! 8y

MrBook You're a long-term planner! 🙌🏻 8y

Purrfectpages The Hating Game is surprisingly good! 8y

Zarac121 The hating game is awesome!! 8y

rubyslippersreads @Purrfectpages @AmandaL @aizekj Glad you liked it so much, since I'll be reading it for an IRL book club. 😀 8y

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Brie

One Summer: America, 1927 | Bill Bryson

Sometimes I like to theme read, so I read both of the Bill Bryson books during the summer; the woods one while I was vacationing near part of the Appalachian trail. When I think of winter I think of the holidays, and I can't resist a good murder mystery themed Christmas story. #summerwinterreads #junebookbugs

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