Welcome to Litsy!

And the celebrations continue…July Littens, you‘re up next! 🎂🎂🎂🩷 Looking forward to all the birthdays coming up next month. 😊

If you‘d like to be added to the #birthdayfairies calendar and receive a little extra #birthdaylove on your special day, just send your Litsy handle and your birthdate to litsybirthdays@gmail.com.

Get your party hats ready, July babies!! 🥳🥳

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#WondrousWednesday
☀️Many challenges but one of them is #Summerween- love it because you read basically thrillers/horror/books set in fall
☀️Didn‘t read anything spectacular because I only read 6 books but Exiles by Jane Harper was a good sequel. Also These Ghosts Are Family
☀️I will say that in general, I enjoyed the 6 books read in June, nothing was “worst”.

Thank you @Eggs ❤️🥰📚

#bookspin
#july2023

And these will be the other #Bookspin books from #10 - 25! @TheAromaofBooks

I want to continue my shelf Challenge in July so these will be my #1-9 books. #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

This is my July 2022 #BookSpinBingo I will participate in two readathons besides my regular book clubs reading: Jane Austen‘s Readathon which is during the whole minth. It has 6 prompts but I will try to complete at least 3 of them. The other one is the Summerween Readathon. Let‘s see how much reading I can do 📚 🤗
@TheAromaOfBooks

#bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo #july2022

This imagined turn in South African history is a truly clever way to explore the nature of power in a colonised nation. Gordimer‘s style is a bit dense, and as such this novel demands quite a lot of clear headspace to absorb. I don‘t think I had enough mental space to truly appreciate the nuances of everything Gordimer was doing here. It‘s an interesting novel that for me, could have been executed more accessibly.

July in review! Felt good to knock a bunch of books out as summer nears it's end.

Happy, Happy Birthday @Blerdgal_Fenix !!! Our last #LitsyLove birthday for July. We hope you have a fantastic day filled with special things and plenty of time with friends & family. ❗️💕😊📚🎈🎂🎉🎶🎁☀️🌸 #LitsyLoveBirthdayCrew

Happy, Happy Birthday @Littlewolf1 !!! Hope you have a fantastic day and you get lots of books, reading time, and CAKE!! ❗️💕😊📚🎶🎂🎈🎉🎁🌸☀️

My goals for July #AnyWayYouReadathon are:
1. Finish book Summer by the Tides-Done
2. Finish book Todo Esto Te Daré
3. Read The Night Swim
4. Start another book in my tbr list

@kimmypete1 @Eggbeater @MidnightBookGirl

#JulyJourneys
@Eggs & @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#USIndependence 🇺🇸

Happy, Happy Birthday @cozypunk !!! We hope you have a wonderful day filled with all the things you love, especially cake!! 💕❗️😊📚🎶🎉🎂☀️🎈🌸🎁📚

Get ready to celebrate with these July babies! Please send them a note or a card or comment on their birthday post to help them celebrate their special day! #LitsyLoveBirthdayCrew #litsylovebirthdays22

How is 2021 halfway through?!! I‘m flabbergasted! 🤣

So many great Littens celebrating in July!!! Can‘t wait to celebrate with them! 🎉🎉🎉 If you‘d like your birthday (whenever it might be 😊) added to the Litsy calendar, send your birthdate (only your own please) and your Litsy handle to litsybirthdays@gmail.com , and the #BirthdayFairies will gather more glitter and #BirthdayLove just for YOU!! ✨✨✨✨

PARTY ON!!! 🎈🎈🎈

Look at all of the lovely Littens celebrating their birthdays in July!

If you‘d like to be added to the list to receive some #birthdaylove greetings on your special day, simply send your Litsy handle and birthday date to litsybirthdays@gmail.com. Encourage your friends to email too!

The Birthday Fairies can‘t wait to celebrate with you all!

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I was expecting a lot more from this novel. For the amount of good press this novel got, I was just kind of bored with it and I found Maureen to be a little bit annoying.

Resharing for @LitsyBirthdays ....

Here‘s the July birthday calendar (so far...)! If you‘d like to join in and be sent #birthdaylove on your special day then send your Litsy handle and birth date to litsybirthdays@gmail.com.

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I was expecting much more from this novel. Promising to be an exploration of the relationships between blacks and whites during wartimes in South Africa, this novel‘s style detracted from the deeper meanings lurking in the book. I understand what Gordimer was going for, but her writing style just didn‘t work for me. Subject and topic was great though.

I didn't manage to crack 3 of the ARCs on my #julytbr but what're you gonna do, right? Best reads of the month were Hunger & The Skeptical Vegan.

#julystats #julyrecap

#julytbr

Need to finish Danse Macabre & Tune In.

Bottom row includes one #audioread, 3 #netgalley #ARCs, and the first book for #whodunitbymail

It's the last day of June (and maybe already July where you are). Hope you've had a great month of reading (and other things)! Posting this again for anyone who missed it. Hope you join in! #jubilantjuly

As we head into the last week of June, there's going to be a whole lot of "where did June go?" and "how is it nearly July already?" (maybe that's just me). Anyway I hope your June has been going great and I look forward to July partly because it's my birthday month and we have vacation plans!

Come join me in #jubilantjuly and tag me! Looking forward to your posts!

Thanks to @lynneamch and @merelybookish for letting me borrow ideas!

#yellowcovers #riotgrams

I am moving to a new town, so I went to the local HPB bookstore to check it out. As I walked in I said, I don't need any books right now I just want to see what it is like. Well, it's a good one...(more books to move).

I did not like the way in which this book was written. Everytime I think that I've finally gotten what is happening, a sentence comes in that just confuses me again. The idea and plot of the novel is good but the style was just not to my liking. Maybe if I were to have read it for my own enjoyment rather than school, I might have liked it more.
My Rating: 1.5/5 Stars ⭐💫

#LitsyAtoZ: J = July's People
This was my first experience with Nadine Gordimer and I really enjoyed it. I did a combo of audio and ebook. Don't do the audio -it was rather dry and dull. The book explores racial tensions and interdependencies between blacks and whites in South Africa. A complex and interesting book.