Here are June's #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks 😊

#WhereAreYouMonday
Today I was, both physically and figuratively, in the Navajo Nation (reservation) and at Four Corners Monument. 🧡
Pictured: the Shiprock monadnock
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May wrap up; I can't believe it's June already! A lot of these were good. My favorite is tagged.

Our roadtrip starts today! Yay, family vacay!
But first, I got up early for a (very) little alone time and to get a start on this pretty book.

This was sweet and adorable and romantic- with some underlying deep topics- and I loved it! Wish I hadn't waited so long to read it

@Jerdencon and @TheAromaofBooks I mailed two #TravelingThrills books to Denise today- the tagged and The Last To Disappear 😊

I was hooked early and the mysteries kept me turning pages. But I didn't connect with any of the characters and I had to force myself to finish. It wasn't bad but I didn't actually care about what was going on.
This is has excellent reviews everywhere so maybe it's me.

I'm getting invested in this, so I'm reading a little when I should be focused on working. 🙃 Or, if not working, cleaning my desk off so I have more than 1 square foot of work space! I'm starting to feel squeezed between the computer monitors on one side and a wall of books on the other. 😬

I've been meaning to read her for ages and I really wish I hadn't waited so long because I loved this! Both Hannah's and Mallory's stories engaged me from the beginning and kept me interested all the way through.
I'm off to investigate her blacklist.

This was a fast, entertaining read. It was exactly what I was in the mood for yesterday so it's a pick for me.

Tried #backporchreading but it is cold today. 🥶 So now I'm inside to start this book.

There's much love for this book but it didn't quite click for me. There was a lot I liked, especially the descriptions of island, the ocean, & the animals. I even liked all of the main characters, which I thought was impressive for so many. But it all became #toomuch - every one of those 5 characters was burdened with grief & secrets. And the sense of oppression, while well written, wasn't for me. Still, I was mostly enjoying it till the end. 😩

My long weekend has started and I could not be more delighted. 😊
I'm enjoying my back porch while starting this book.

#WhereAreYouMonday
The tagged book started in North Carolina and is currently at Bletchley Park, with plans to end up in Germany. The shores of WDS are on a remote island, closer to Antarctica than anywhere else. Enjoying both, so far.
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What's in a name? Potentially quite a lot! This is good. Not feel-good- because some of it is difficult to read- but interesting, well written, and thought-provoking. I'll watch for more by this author.

It's porch reading season again! 🥰 Starting this while enjoying tea and a breeze.

A little pre- work reading this morning, and a million flowers on our snowball bush, started the day off right. This is good, so far, but some scenes are hard to read.

Finished this during the grandbaby's swim lesson.
I really enjoy Heller's writing. His love for nature, his self sufficient MC, and musings on human nature, literature, and poetry are all very appealing to me and I would have been satisfied if that's all the book offered. I can see a version of this where Jack manages to heal a bit while working as a fishing guide for the über wealthy on a beautiful river for a few weeks. But almost immediately

#WhereAreYouMonday
This is NF about Shakespeare and scholarship questions about his plays so I'm "in" 1600 England. So far it's interesting.
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A little bit of reading time before we go watch the grandbaby in his final soccer game of the season. 😊

I can‘t explain my lack of interest but I‘m having to force myself to read this so I‘m giving up #next

There were parts of this I enjoyed along with parts I really disliked. I ended up skimming the last third because I was pretty tired of Ammalie by then.

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Lapland where the brother of a murdered woman both helps and interferes with the police investigation while everyone wonders if the murder is connected to three other women who have disappeared in the last 20 years.
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I'm starting my #BookSpin this fine Sunday morning (I ❤️ weekends)

Saturday morning reading 😊

Here are my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin reads for May
@TheAromaofBooks 😊

My April wrap up. Swept Away, The Family Experiment, and The Austen Sisters were my favorites.

I occasionally enjoy a good conspiracy theory and a mystery that mixes art, science, and religion seems like it should be a surefire hit. But I'd forgotten that I find DB's writing kind of annoying. This one was repetitive and choppy, yet still entertaining. But my biggest compliant was with our hero, Robert. For a scholar/ professor who has made a career out of learning and deciphering the meanings of symbols and ancient languages, he was

I just opened some book mail to discover this atrocity. 😭 I hope it comes off.

I picked up these pretty books at an indie bookstore yesterday then took them with me to Rifle Falls state park. What a gorgeous day! (And I can't wait to start reading both of these.)

Found these cute little stickers at a cute little bookstore in Glenwood Springs- Alpenglow Books and Gifts
The one that's blurry says Banning Books Is Bananas. Which it is. 🍌 Among other things.

Do any of these sound good to you? @TheAromaofBooks @Jerdencon #TravelingThrills
The Mumford isn't in the database

The workweek is a wrap and I have a lovely evening in front of me. 😊
This book is fun, so far (35%), and I absolutely 💚 the cover!

I liked this a lot. There's a lot going on here as we have 5 MCs and the author hits a lot of the main plot points for each of them on their way to finding love with their correct, Austen-ordained, match. This is like a love letter to Austen fans and was a fun read but I wonder if it would work for readers who aren't familiar with all the original books.

#WhereAreYouMonday

I'm at Mansfield Park, a very exclusive resort in Kentucky, where the Austen sisters- Elinor, Elizabeth, Anne, Emma, and Catherine- are bridesmaids for their cousin Fanny's wedding to Edmund.
I'm enjoying it so far but I do find it weird that Edmund's groomsmen are Knightley... and Willoughby, Wickham, Thorpe, and Elliot! 🤯 They have to be included somehow, obvi, but how could they be such friends of Edmund?? 🤔
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This was good. I did not see that ending coming.

Saturday morning reading 🤎

I've been scrolling a lot this morning, which has left me sad/angry/dismayed, so I decided to focus my mood board on things that bring me joy.
Family is first, of course, but here are things I do that make me happy.

#moodboardcontest @dabbe congrats on 200k litfluency! As someone else said- #dabberocks

This is heavy reading but it's well-written and timely.

I get why most of the #NancyDrewBR found this a bit (ok a lot 😂) OOT but I'm pretty sure 10 year old me was delighted by the nonstop adventure. I didn't remember much of the story so I don't think I read this multiple times but I did recall Nancy driving the boat and I have a clear memory of being impressed by that as a kid because I had never seen a girl doing that. Now, as a Colorado kid, I wasn't spending a ton of time

#WhereAreYouMonday

Where is small town Vermont and NYC; when is 1976 and 2019
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Sunday reading. ☺️

Grandson started a puzzle on my coffee table two days ago and hasn't touched it since. Guess I'll have to finish it. 😒

Saffron, a city girl from DC, inherits her uncle's chicken farm in Hawaii. While getting the place ready to sell she encounters- and solves- several mysteries. This is the first in a series so we're introduced to a lot of people in town and given the lay of the land. I'll probably read the next one.

I agree with this. I feel like I read a variety of genres, but, of the blurbs they included, I was definitely more drawn to the thrillers on the list.

#bookhaul from a local used book store

This is what my blind date book turned out to be. Sounds good!

I picked up a mystery book at 2nd & Charles this evening. I'm meeting friends now so I'll wait to unwrap it. I hope it's a good one! 🤞🏻

I gave this till the 30% mark then decided I'd had enough. I couldn't connect with Jaya but I was pretty interested in the ruby bracelet and snippets of Indian history related to it so I figured I'd push through. But the twist that happened on the train to Scotland tipped me over into not caring about the story. #Next

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in St Petersburg and Scotland at the moment.
@Cupcake12

It's been a bit since I've read a John Marrs, and, as was the case with most of his other books, I couldn't stop turning pages. I'm impressed by the way he examines technology and pushes concepts to a plausible- sounding yet troubling point. Here it's possible to create a MetaChild and 6 families compete on a reality show to care for a child, with the winner getting to keep theirs. That's already wild enough but there is a LOT more going on here.