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I‘m loving all of these #colleenhoover books lately! #goodread #maybenow

🌸Finished The Storyteller and Anna.
🌸Continuing Tenant Hall with #Pemberlittens and the 30 day read of All Will Be Well.
🌸Started Tell the Wolves I‘m Home.
🌸Next Up The Sandcastle Girls.

#bookreport

#MagicalMay #MayStats

A day late because it has been a total *Monday* & I still have to work tonight 😬 but May was a great reading month for me with 12 books total + about 50% of Sense and Sensibility for #PemberLittens #chapteraday plus 2 other #buddyreads #BOTMbuddyread & #MayBeNow

I read:
-5 Print books
-3 Audiobooks
-5 E-books
-12 fiction
-1 non-fiction
-11 women authors
-5 #ARCs for reviews & book tours
The 💜designated my favorites

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I was blown away by this novel. Absolutely moving, as Brunt views the layers of love and loss during the 1980s. June‘s beloved Uncle Finn passes away from AIDS. Finn, her only true friend, left behind so many memories. June grapples with this as she befriends Finn‘s partner, Tony, who also grapples with his devastating loss. I connected with June‘s feelings of loneliness and invisibility. I laughed and cried (lots of tears). So glad I read this!

#MayBeNow
I'm late posting because I've been trying to track down photos, but without a lot of success unfortunately. The two thousand teens was a time when we did a lot of travelling. My husband's work was based in Sydney between 2010 and 2017 so we spent a lot of time there and we were lucky enough to have many fabulous holidays both in Australia and overseas.

My reading views from this weekend. Camping on Kenai Lake, Cooper Landing, AK. Finished the tagged book this morning. I really fell into this story and blew through the whole book between Friday and Sunday. Was sorry to miss the #MayBeNow discussion today, since I just got back from camping.

My #bookreport for the week. I‘ve had a little more time on my hands, as business changes wind down for now. And I just wasn‘t motivated to do any business tasks. Hence ... baking and reading!

#finished 4, 2 of which were super short.
#starting 3 more this week

And the Band 5/5 #nonfictionchallenge2020 #somethinglgbtqia
Tell the Wolves 5/5 #MAYBeNow #buddyreas
A Long Walk 3/5 #irlbookgroup
Play It as It Lays 3.75/5 #setinhollywood #booked2020

My feelings for this kept swinging back and forth. I loved the coming of age story of June and her sister, as they grappled with the messy aftermath accompanying the death of their artist uncle from AIDS in 1980s New York. I felt like the middle had too many moments of intense emotion that began feeling manufactured, but the escalating plot developments in the final third were well executed and did justice to the finely drawn characters.

I always wish Litsy had a way of easily pulling up previous posts you made on a book as I reviewed the audiobook a few years ago on Litsy. The #MAYbeNow #buddyread had me doing a quick reread of the e-book. It‘s still a pick, sensitive, poignant & I loved June & the 80s NYC setting. MAHALO to our hosts for thIs weekend full of fun & discussions.🤗 My discussion partner🐱fell asleep as there weren‘t enough 🐈🐈🐈 for his liking but I enjoyed it!🤣