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I‘ll probably never get reviews posted for August, I‘m still behind for July but I managed to read 20 books, which surprised me given my schedule & energy level for the month. Many were short books & I made 8 day trips in the month which gives me about 90 minutes per trip of reading + airport commute time.

Finished books for #SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR #CampLitsy2025 #ChildrensClassicRead2025 #AuthorAMonth ⬇️

#CharacterCharm Day 30: Augusta Baker educated herself and became the first Black person to earn a degree from SUNY Albany in library sciences and information studies. As the first Black #Librarian, she curated the James Weldon Johnson Memorial collection in 1944 to find uplifting stories about people of color. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-r3d

Really enjoyed this one.

☀️July's Reads☀️

I need books with very low stakes!

I had picked this up for a breezy beach read and while I didn‘t finish it on vacation, I enjoyed this a lot! The characters were great! The male lead dreamy. It did have some heavy moments to it I wasn‘t expecting that honestly hit a little close to home which made me lose a touch of the escapism. But I still loved it and while I‘ve always wanted to go to Ireland, this made me want to even more

#Sewing 🧵🪡📍

#JuneSpecials ☀️🌸⛱️🦩🍉 🌻🩱🧴🕶️🌊🐚

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Such a cute book. My son picked this out to have me read to him today. Sweet Penelope wants so much to be a librarian. She just has one little BIG problem. A good book to show children (and adults, hopefully) that sometimes we need to get creative to make our dreams and talents match.

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Soft pick - 3/5
Alia, librarian in Basra, Iraq, does her best to save the books of her library from being destroyed by the raging war.
Why soft pick? Not a fan of the illustrations and of the writing style.

I finished five books over Memorial Day weekend (all but one I had already started and was in various stages of completion before Friday). But #JumpStartSummer gave me an excuse to buckle down and finish them! All of these were good in different ways. And I still have a big stack of books to get me though early summer!