June 2026 - What are you reading?

[Anonymous]

What is everyone reading this month?
What is the book about?
What is your opinion of the book?

[Anonymous]

The Long Ships, by Frans Bengtsson. It's about a Viking and his adventures (originally written in Sweden in the 1940s) and it's a fun page-turner, but based on real history.

[Anonymous]

Great Expectations, a friend recommended it and it was slow and boring but Miss Havisham and Eliza just came on the scene so maybe it gets better.

[Anonymous]

In such a rut.

Am listening to Drift by Rachel Maddow and reading The Martian by Andy Weir.

Both are “easy” books to get me out of a slump but it’s taking me forever. Drift was written awhile ago but is pretty enraging because everything being brought to light in the book is still happening.

[Anonymous]

Nothing yet…..!
But I plan on visiting my local library 📚 later on this wk to get some new books to read & will keep everyone posted!

[Anonymous]

Lonesome Dove for BC - second time through. Quality character development in that one.
Then, Elizabeth Strout's new one - The Things we Never Say.

[Anonymous]

The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity

By Carl Trueman

A modern follow up to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, it seems.

[Anonymous]

I'm listening to "You With the Sad Eyes", Christina Applegate's memoir. It's funny and honest and really sad at parts. I love her and hearing her read/tell the stories is an important part of the experience, I think. It's fairly intense so I only listen to a chapter at a time.

With my eyeballs I'm reading "Annie Knows Everything" by Rachel Wood and I'm wavering about whether to continue. I think I'll stick with it for a while longer. It's a workplace romcom that feels heavier on the "workplace" and not quite enough rom or com but maybe I need to be patient.

[Anonymous]

I'm reading Trust by Hernan Diaz. It won the Pulitzer a few years back. I'm enjoying it a lot. But it's a harder read.

[Anonymous]

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava. I'm loving it so far. But mostly loving that it's a linear narrative. I can't anymore with the back and forth, people and dates, flash backs, parallel worlds or sliding doors like the ten year affair (I just finished that trash). I needed a normal freaking book for once and so I'm loving it thus far.

[Anonymous]

Listening to the Unselected Journals of Emma Lion, based on recommendations seen here. I am on Vol. 3 and not getting the hype. The writing is alright, but nothing really happens. I think I'll bail if things don't pick up by the end of this one.

[Anonymous]

Ugh I also feel slumped. Book club chose Nina Totenberg's bio "Dinners with Ruth" and I am not excited...

please change my mind!

I bought Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, on impulse and I can't get excited enough to start it. Anyone read it? Won the Booker Prize.

[Anonymous]

Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff.

[Anonymous]

Just read two books by two of my favorite writers:
The Shippers by Katherine Center and Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
Both are light rom-com books, but well written.

[Anonymous]

Halfway through Lady Tremaine. A retelling of the stepmother from Cinderella. It's an interesting read but not a page turner.