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I read 5 books for #booked2023 during the second quarter of the year. My Calamity Jane was alright, but my least favorite of the bunch.

1 My Calamity Jane #AnyPartOfATrilogy

3 Last Night at the Telegraph Club #QuietYABook

4 I See You #BookDescribedWithTheWordsStretchTwistOrBalance

5 Station Eleven. #AboutAPandemic

11 The Lost Summers of Newport #SetIn2plusTimePeriods

@cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae

This is a book about two Pakistani kids growing up in the States and trying to survive. Noor and Sal are ex-friends who are brought back together after Sal's mother dies and Sal is willing to do anything to keep the family business going. Noor just wants to escape to college.
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#Booked2023 #quietyabook @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae @Cinfhen

I loved this uplifting story of a young woman from the Dominican Republic who finds herself through her love of poetry. It‘s YA, but this mature reader felt all the feels for X and her struggles.The themes of questioning religion(Catholicism) and mother/ daughter conflict spoke to me.Thank you Litsy for bringing this to my attention! Thank you #booked2023 for including the prompt #quietyabook.
I listened to the audio which was wonderful!

Not going to say anything to avoid spoiling things for the #SundayBuddyRead group. A low pick for me for this #QuietYABook #Booked23 #EpostolaryNovel #bigfabbeatles #PleaseMrPostman #52Books #Withadedication #Pantone #Persimmon

@Clwojick @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @alisiakae @CSeydel

This classic has been on my shelf for a while, and it was worth the read. The narrator is perhaps a little too self-aware, but the story itself was heartfelt and full of feels.
Using this for #quietyabook for #booked2023
#192025 #1948

This was an interesting one to be reading opposite Spare. While Harry feels he‘s in an gilded cage, Francisco lives in a real one. Based on a true story, his father was wrongly arrested and he and his 8-year-old sister live in a men‘s prison. In #Bolivia, if children have nowhere else to go, they can live in prison with their parents. At 17, Francisco struggles to understand why while trying to finish high school and care for his sister.