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July #WrapUp

3 #OffTheShelf2025
3 #Chunkster
1 #FictionalTraveler
2 #SeriesLove2025
4 #BookChain2025
1 #LitsyAtoZ
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
2 #Pantone2025
1 #Classic

Pictured are my August reads, minus my #ThematicCozies & #FictionalTraveler picks.
#OhCanada #AgathaChristieClubR3 #CommissiarioBrunettiSeries #literaryCrew #hashtagbrigade2025 #sundaybuddyread #SheSaid
#adventuresinphilosophy #preorderbookclub #Camplitsy
Probably overreaching,but I am on track with several of the buddyreads. I go back to work 8/24 which obviously will hugely impact my reading time.

Okay, #FictionalTraveler friends, what sizzling locale will you be visiting for our August #SomeplaceHot prompt? I‘m going to Cuba with Next Year in Havana.

I‘ve loved every book by this author that I‘ve read, so I had to make it my choice for August‘s #fictionaltraveler! It‘s set in Key West ☀️

#Read2025

Finished for June‘s #AuthorAMonth & #FictionalTraveler #Water
Thanks to @Soubhiville I read it on SerialReader which I think helped me with its short sections. It has some beautiful writing but not enough plot & too much stream-of-consciousness for me & was hard to keep track of. I got behind in A Room of One‘s Own on SerialReader & I may try to finish it tonight but I don‘t know that I will read more Woolf unless pushed to do so. 😉

This was my first time reading Boyne and it was fantastic!! I‘ll definitely be picking up more of his books. A pretty short book but so powerful and packed with great characters, some many emotions and just simply excellent writing.

My #FictionalTraveler book for July.

Another ebook I‘ve had for a few years. As part of my #ClearMyShelves August focus, I‘m choosing this for #FictionalTraveler

#Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

I‘m trying to catch up on my reviews for June 🤦🏻‍♀️ & this book (the 21st in the Bakeshop Mystery series) was my June pick for #FictionalTraveler #APlaceYoudLikeToVisit (it‘s set in Costa Rico) & it was also a June #Roll100 pick: Any Mystery & an #ARC from the publisher.

An enjoyable entry into the series with Jules & Carlos going to Costa Rica to visit a former colleague‘s family coffee plantation & taking Andy ⬇️

#WhereareyouMonday @Cupcake12
I'm in 1890s Malacca, Malaysia.

#FictionalTraveler June: A place you'd like to visit
(Forestalling August: Someplace hot and November: Asia) @julieclair
#GottaCatchEmAll #Dhelmise or #Goomy @Puddlejumper

#AsianLiterature #spirits #Asia #summertime

I recently finished two delightful magical realism books, and it dawned on me that I could write the same review for each. Both were lighthearted feel-good reads, had characters that I could be friends with, and featured main characters who were trying to leave their past behind and begin to live in the present, trust themselves, and look forward. The Coffee Shop of Curiosities was for my book club. Lost Lake was for July #FictionalTraveler #Water