Summerland: A Novel | 
#ThoughtfulThursday with a spin! You can only keep 4; which would you choose?
🏖The Beach 🧋Iced Coffee 📖Paperbacks 🏕Camping
It‘s not summer to me without these!
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#sliceofsummerswap in the mail.
pickAnother tearjerker from EH! This one deals with the aftermath of a car crash on grad night in Nantucket, where promising student Penny gets killed and her twin brother is in critical condition. It was sad but compelling and I couldn‘t put it down. 4⭐️
#ElinHilderbrand
#audiobook
#Nantucket
so-soI‘m usually good with Elin‘s many characters and POVs, but there were too many to develop empathy here. On grad night soon-to-be seniors speed into an Ill-fated situation where the driver dies. 17-yo teens and 40-yo parents grapple with individual guilt over the death. Maybe if the focus stayed on either teenagers or parents I‘d have some feels here. Penny, girl, wtf? She wasn‘t even one of the MCs unless in this case MC = many characters ;)
My first time with #BookSpinBingo
Here‘s my card. I‘ve started two books today. 🤓
I‘m hoping to knock several of these TBRs off my stacks.
panEh, not my favorite of hers. The setting is lovely, the characters are complex and the topics are relevant but it still fell short for me. so many sad events, lot of angst-ing around without much growth. And while I‘m usually fine with an unlikeable character or 2, must all of them be valid and annoying? And fat shaming. I don‘t want to spoil anything but I wish had known about these: TW for suicide, infant death, infidelity.
Jumping into to a summer read! I always love heading to Nantucket with Elin Hildebrand ❤️
Elin Hilderbrand‘s covers always look like sunshine no matter what the book is about. #Sunshine #BloomingBibliophiles
pickPoignant and moving. I didn't like most of the characters they were too woe-is-me. Only Hobby and Jake were the exceptions and they carried the story.
Saturday night plans: a cuppa and a book that's been on my #MtTBR since 2016
❤️New York 🗽 and Florida ☀️
🧡Fresh Fruit 🍉 🍇🍓🍊🍏🍌🍒🥝🍍 & cheese 🧀
💛Reading 📖, Taking walks 🚶🏻♀️, and hanging with pals on patios! 🥰☀️
💚Beer🍺, Wine🍷, Margaritas🍹, Iced Tea & water 💧
💙 I don‘t wear a ton of accessories so I guess...my sunglasses 🕶
💜Founders Brewing Beer Garden 😍
Anyone who wants to play and hasn‘t been tagged, “Tag, you‘re it!” 😘😘
#summersantagoespostal #summersantasurvey
1. Yes!! Often buy books based on just the cover. 2. Sometimes! Only when there is a cool breeze. 3. I like to stop at the end of the chapter. 4. Always! 5. Of course!
@SilversReviews
pickA sad story exploring how surviving teens & adults move on after a teenager committed suicide.
Gonna give this baby a try and take a break from current read.
I think im going to love her summer books just as much as her Winter series. I've not been able to put this book down.
Forgot to post my #beachinbookswap mailing receipt on Saturday. I also forgot to put the # on the package. @cobwebmoth be on the lookout the next couple of days!
A day after finishing (and enjoying) my first Elin Hilderbrand, another is waiting in the Lake Wobegon Trail Little Free Library. Hope it lives up to my first. 😊 #fate #beachreads 👙☀️🌊
I couldn't decide which direction to go in for #summerwinterreads so I ended up picking two books that fit the theme by the same author. #junebookbugs
Elin Hilderbrand is the Queen of #SummerReads ☀️#riotgrams
I was pleasantly surprised that I actually read books with all four seasons in the titles. #marchintoreading
Was going to wait for the morning, but I'm not tired so #24in48 here we go! Hoping to be done with this book finally, it's been dragging on 🙄🙄🙄
panUgh- I'm annoyed and angry after finishing this book that went nowhere. Thought I would at least enjoy a "lighter" beach read- intoned by the false cover. ⭐️⭐️
pickI was expecting a casual beach read for lunch breaks and whenever I didn't want to think too hard... Instead I got death, mental illness, addiction, and dysfunctional families aka exactly my repartee. Perfect (for me) this summer.
Giving this a try. Have not read anything by her before.
Won this on the SJCPLS' Facebook page :) Not exactly my regular fare but I love winning a book nonetheless. :D
