#MMDBookClub 2022 Summer Reading Guide

Since I am originally from Michigan, this story held a lot of meaning and memories for me. But you don‘t have to be familiar with the area to enjoy this amazing young adult mystery.

Eighteen-year-old Daunis has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, she puts her future on hold.

According to #StoryGraph, this month @suvata mainly read:
• fiction books that are emotional, reflective, informative and mysterious
• typically chooses medium-paced books that are 300-499 pages long

Read in June 2022 ...
#suvataReads #Bookly #BooklyApp #Bookstagram #MMDBookClub

#LitsyFunandGames
Hmmm … What will end up being my favorite book for 2022?
This is getting harder and harder each month. #SoManyGoodBooks
Thanks to @chasjjlee for designing the template.
#bookstagram #modernmrsdarcybookclub #BestBookIn2022

Just a reminder from #LMPBC ...

Welcome to Round 15!

Hopefully you have picked out the book you want to share by now. It‘s time to start reading and marking-up passages you want to highlight. Be creative and don‘t forget to introduce yourself in the front of the book. I will send out a few reminders during the month and then a final one at the end of the month to remind you to mail it out to the next person in line.

Happy Reading!

• ModernMrsDarcy.com 2022 Summer Reading Guide #MMDSummerReading #MMDBookClub

This debut novel is told over 70 years from the shifting perspectives of Hazel, her daughters‘, Miriam and August, and Miriam‘s daughter, Joan. The book jumps back and forth through time as it slowly unveils the legacy each generation passes down to the next.

Ready ... Set ... Mail! #LMPBC

It‘s that time again. Please return all Round 14 books ASAP. Round 15 starts July 1st. Hope y‘all had fun. Thank you to everyone who participated.

#LMPBC Round 15 UPDATE

Emails have been sent to everyone participating in Round 15. The email includes name, email address, postal address, and Litsy name for everyone in your group.

Groups J and S only had three member each. I still mailed the information in case you want to participate with a three person rotation.

Happy reading 📖

There are only TWO days left to sign up for Round 15 of #LMPBC? It starts on July 1st.

Details and sign up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080444AEAD2CA0FF2-litsy15

Each group must have a minimum of three people. Four is ideal but you can make it work with three by spreading out the mailing dates between yourselves. There are a few groups that only have two people so, you need at least one more person in order to participate.

• ModernMrsDarcy.com 2022 Summer Reading Guide #MMDSummerReading #MMDBookClub

I really like this author‘s style. Most of the time I couldn‘t decide whether I even liked the characters. They made me laugh, cry, get angry, and reflect my own relationships. Ultimately, I adored them. In any event, the book was thought-provoking and entertaining.

#LMPBC Round 14 - #GroupA
@Jerdencon @smalldogs_bigbooks2419

@suvata has mailed a book to @IndoorDame

Thanks, y‘all. It was a fun round.

• Read in June 2022 for Litsy Markup Postal Book Club #LMPBC Round 14 - Group A

Interesting historical book about New York City society in the early 1900s and of the lifetime fear of a woman “passing” in a world made up of rich white men. Belle was a remarkable person.

Great book to wrap up #LMPBC Round 14

#LMPBC Round 15

1 week left to sign up. 25 spots left.

Details and sign up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080444AEAD2CA0FF2-litsy15

I would say this is very accurate. #StoryGraph

I probably should have waited until “Austen in August” but I have no self-control.

Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen? John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction.

DNF - abandoned at 20%

Although I appreciated the Cape Cod history of the late 1960s and all the cultural references of the time, I just couldn‘t get past the brutality of this serial killer. I particularly enjoyed the rivalry between Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. But the chapters about Joe Costa and his murder sprees actually made me rather sick to my stomach. I decided to stop reading at 20% because it just wasn‘t worth torturing myself.

Expected publication date is August 2, 2022.

Not only was this book a fun read but it was also quite informative. I had no idea how much prep work goes into narrating an audiobook. The characters were real and relatable. Oh, I also learned the difference between the book classification of romance vs. women‘s literature. If you want to know, you‘ll just have to read this book. You won‘t be sorry.

Book 3 of 3 in The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series

I‘m going to miss these characters.

Life‘s always an adventure for the Athena Club . . . especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll, and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished — and so has Mary‘s friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!

@sprainedbrain @persephone1408

Hey there, I tried to send you an email with your group information but both of your email addresses bounced Please contact me with the correct email so I can send you your list. 🤷‍♀️

#LMPBC Round 15 - #GroupP
@suvata @AllureOfBeauty @Kappadeemom
@BeckyWithTheGoodBooks

Looks like our group is all set. Yay!

#LMPBC Round 15 - #GroupP
@suvata @AllureOfBeauty @Kappadeemom
@BeckyWithTheGoodBooks

UPDATED

1️⃣ Victorian London
2️⃣ Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3️⃣ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

🏷 @sprainedbrain @Kappadeemom @Andrew65

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

#LMPBC Round 15 - #GroupP
@suvata @AllureOfBeauty @Kappadeemom
@BeckyWithTheGoodBooks

Graphic Updated

🕐 Reminder: There are only about two weeks left to mail your final #LMPBC Round 14 book by the end of June. If you have a problem doing that, please contact your other teammates to let them know what is going on. Round 15 begins July 1st.

Heartbreaking 💔 Unconscionable ‼️

From: Beyond the Book
In Take My Hand, the protagonist Civil Townsend works at a family planning center in Montgomery, Alabama in 1973. She visits a Black family and administers birth control shots to two sisters, ages 11 and 13, at the behest of her supervisor, a man who later orders the girls to be sterilized. This story is based on the real-life involuntary sterilization of Mary Alice and Minnie Relf.

#LMPBC Round 15 - #GroupP
@suvata @AllureOfBeauty @Kappadeemom
@BeckyWithTheGoodBooks

Yay! Our group filled up. I would like to read The Lies I Tell. It just came out so I hope no one has read it yet. If so, I will come up with a different book. Let me know what book you would like to read with the group and I will update the graphic as needed.

OK, now I‘m getting excited for another round.

Interest appears to be waning in this club. This may be the final round of #LMPBC. There are still about two weeks left to join. It starts on July 1st.

Details and sign up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080444AEAD2CA0FF2-litsy15

#LMPBC Round 15 - #GroupP
We need one more reader in our Psychological Thriller group.
Sign up for Group P at:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080444AEAD2CA0FF2-litsy15

This was a very interesting book that brought to mind two famous quotes:

“You don‘t know what you don‘t know.”
~ John F. Kennedy

“Think different.”
~ From an old Apple ad featuring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Think Again delves into the territory of cognitive errors, biases, prejudices, and mental blind spots. It explores our failure to change our ideas once we have established them.

Two books arrived today. Don‘t you just love book mail?
#bookstagram #botm

• ModernMrsDarcy.com 2022 Summer Reading Guide #MMDSummerReading #MMDBookClub

I am not a hardcore Sci-Fi fan but I did enjoy this book. I didn‘t love it, but I certainly liked it enough to give it 3 stars. I would recommend to the right person.

Fleeing her old life, Rosemary Harper joins the multi-species crew of the Wayfarer as a file clerk, and follows them on their various missions throughout the galaxy.

As she woke up in the pod, she remembered three things.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Are y‘all ready for Round 15 of #LMPBC? It starts on July 1st.

Details and sign up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080444AEAD2CA0FF2-litsy15

When you fill out the comments, it is a good idea to mention what types of books you like to read. That way, people who like the same genre can try to be in the same group. Reserve your spot now!

Parings will be sent to you periodically during the sign up process as the groups fill up.

• ModernMrsDarcy.com 2022 Summer Reading Guide #MMDSummerReading #MMDBookClub

Fantastic crime investigation about an investigation by an “average” woman who helped expose a major college football team sex scandal. Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is mesmerizing story.

I loved is a memoir. Sometimes it had me in tears both from laughing and from crying. It is the story of family, love, and letting go.

“Bomb Shelter is a gorgeous, gut-wrenching memoir that drew me in immediately. Mary Laura Philpott puts words to the human condition in a life-affirming, joyful, and surprisingly funny way — even as she leaves readers in tears. I‘m blown away.”
Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Great reminder from the folks at #BooklyApp

Expected publication date: 6/28/2022

Interesting premise and a thoroughly enjoyable book.

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy is a fictional story that spans across seven generations of Chinese women. Epigenetics is the main theme which suggests that earlier generations, who have experienced trauma, fears, unusual proclivities etc, can have these issues passed on to future generations without changing their DNA.

This book was beautifully written but so sad. Like watching a train wreck, I couldn‘t stop watching (reading).

Sally spends much of that summer at the pool, watching in confusion and excitement as her older sister, Kathy, falls deeper in love with Billy—until a tragedy leaves Sally's life forever intertwined with his.

In Dial A For Aunties we are introduced to Meddy Chan and her large close-knit Asian family who run a family wedding vendor business. In Four Aunties And A Wedding, Meddy is now getting married to the handsome Nathan. Rumor has it that the new wedding planners are mafioso and planning a hit at the wedding. The Aunties spring into action in their madcap, slapstick style. Again … the Aunties save the day. This series is so much fun.

#Litsy Fun and Games
Hmmm … What will end up being my favorite book for 2022?
This is getting harder and harder each month. #SoManyGoodBooks
Thanks to @chasjjlee for designing the template.
#bookstagram #modernmrsdarcybookclub #BestBookIn2022

Read in May 2022 ...
#suvataReads #Bookly #BooklyApp #Bookstagram #MMDBookClub

Ready ... Set ... Mail! #LMPBC

If you haven‘t already done so, it‘s time to mail your Round 14 book to the next person. If you did, “good job“! If you didn‘t, “Hurry up and do so”. If you are unable to mail it at this time, please contact the members of your group to let them know when they can expect it.

Yet another intense thriller from from the dynamic duo of GREER HENDRICKS and SARAH PEKKANEN.

You are Not Alone is a psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. It only took 22 seconds to dramatically alter Shay Miller‘s life. While she is book smart (and continuously records statistics and data), she is not people smart which leads her to be easily manipulated and taken advantage of.

From the heavy-handed Dictatorial governments of North Africa to the megalomaniacal one in North Korea, the high-paced action flies thick and fast! And the US plays the pivotal role of an uncomfortable but powerful ally to some of these regimes. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and a delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable.

• Thank you to Random House and NetGalley for providing this Advance Reading Copy. Expected publication date is October 18, 2022.

A collection of nine short stories. I hate to say this because I‘ve always enjoyed George Saunders in the past. It felt like homework, grueling homework, trying to get through these stories. They were OK, but I can honestly say that none of them are memorable or outstanding.

#LMPBC Round 14 - #GroupA
@Jerdencon @smalldogs_bigbooks2419

@suvata has mailed a book to @IndoorDame

• TBR since July 11, 2018

Yay! This is my last TBR book from 2018. Now, on to my 2019 TBR (plus current books, of course).

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a 2018 novel by American author Ottessa Moshfegh. Moshfegh's second novel, it is set in New York City in 2000 and 2001 and follows an unnamed protagonist as she gradually escalates her use of prescription medications in an attempt to sleep for an entire year.

Epigraph from:
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
by Ottessa Moshfegh