what are you reading for july?

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Let It Snow by Nancy Thayer.
It was about a woman who runs a toy store on Nantucket. She befriends a nine year old girl who is shopping in the store. Then she meets the girl's uncle.
It was cheesy and predictable. As cheesy and predictable as one of those hallmark Christmas movies. I love those cheesy and predictable movies, and I loved this book.
I picked it up at the thrift shop a while back.

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I'm reading James and enjoying it but looking forward to my next read, Forever by Pete Hamill.

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The God of the Woods. I’m 100 pages in, and so far really like it. Also read Sandwich and James this month.

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Anonymous wrote:The Storied Life of A.J. Fickery by Gabrielle Zevin.
It is about a guy who runs a bookstore. Someone abandons a toddler in the store and he decides to raise it.
I finished it a couple days ago. I thought it was good.

I liked it, too. Very sweet book. And I LOVED her most recent book, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Absolutely loved it! It’s not much like AJ Fickery - in fact, each of Zevin’s books are quite different from each other. But if you liked AJ Fickery, I’d recommend trying T and T and T.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 3/4 through Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo and really like it. The next ones I have on deck are The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan and Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodessr-Akner (both coming out in subsequent weeks). I just finished Same Time Next Summer by Anna Monaghan and loved it.

Halfway through Same as It Ever Was too and also enjoying it. Her writing is sharp and descriptive. I didn’t know there was a new J. Courtney Sullivan and Taffy BA coming out, that’s great!

Just finished, Same as It Ever Was. I was bored out of my mind with this insufferable 500 page novel! I disliked the central character, Julia, one of the most unsympathetic protagonists I’ve ever encountered. So much navel gazing. I could care less what happens to this miserable, unhappy woman.

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Anonymous wrote:Just got a ping that a new book by one of my favorite writers came off waitlist!!!! That’s such an exciting feeling. Just in time, because I’d been reading some real duds lately.

Good Material, Dolly Alderton

Ugh. I finished this, and it was fine, but I thought it suffered from the same problem as Fleischman is in Trouble, in that it drags you along with a really annoying man for 90% of the book before flipping the switch to the far more sympathetic female character.

Clever, but I'd rather not spend my time reading about a real douche canoe.

(Still love Ghosts more than anything)

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I’m on an Ishiguro kick and now reading “The Buried Giant.”

Not so sure about this one…

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished The Ministry of Time, about a government agency in London that has stumbled into time travel technology. It is also a romance. Funny, interesting, maybe a little confusing in some of its plotting (or maybe I read too much of it late at night as I was falling asleep) but I recommend it.

This sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the tip!

PP here - I just finished this on audiobook on Spotify - highly recommend. I agree that there are a few loose ends, but it's a really interesting concept and well-executed.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m on an Ishiguro kick and now reading “The Buried Giant.”

Not so sure about this one…

I find Ishiguro really hit or miss despite so much critical acclaim.

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Anonymous wrote:The Storied Life of A.J. Fickery by Gabrielle Zevin.
It is about a guy who runs a bookstore. Someone abandons a toddler in the store and he decides to raise it.
I finished it a couple days ago. I thought it was good.

I liked it, too. Very sweet book. And I LOVED her most recent book, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Absolutely loved it! It’s not much like AJ Fickery - in fact, each of Zevin’s books are quite different from each other. But if you liked AJ Fickery, I’d recommend trying T and T and T.

Oh yes, I am interested in reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow as well. I plan to read it once the waiting list is not a mile long. Surely that will happen at some point this decade! Gabrielle Zevin has written a few other books that interest me as well. Young Jane Young and Elsewhere sound interesting to me.

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I just finished "Dear Mrs. Bird" by A.J. Pearce.
It is about a 22 year old woman who gets hired at a magazine in London in 1940. She naively expected that she would be a war correspondent, but instead learns she has been hired to type things up for an advice columnist. The advice columnist is an older woman who refuses to answer any letters of a personal nature. The typist feel sorry for the people who write in and secretly occasionally writes the people back personally and signs the letters as though they were from the columnist.

I thought it was really really really good. Like stay up all night reading and then call in sick to work the next day because you haven't slept at all good.
I downloaded it from my library website.

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I’m reading Knife by Salman Rushdie.

I’m very glad that he survived the attempt on his life and hope he continues writing, but I don’t really care for this book.

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I'm reading God Complex by Rachael Allen, Faber Books.

It's a collection of poems about a failed relationship. Recently nominated for a Forward Prize. Quite brilliant.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m reading Knife by Salman Rushdie.

I’m very glad that he survived the attempt on his life and hope he continues writing, but I don’t really care for this book.

Oh Jesus me too. I had to read it and put it down for a while, pick it up again etc.