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Books I've Read - June 2026

June 4, 2026

 

Hello friends, and happy June!  I'd love to share with you the books I've read recently.






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I loved this book set in Italy at the Amalfi coast.  It's about how three people need an escape from their daily lives and form friendships while on vacation.  This makes me want to take a trip back to Italy for the summer!   



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I was looking for a book to read and I saw that this was recommended by the library and a halfway-to-Halloween book.  I started reading this, but could not finish it as it was too slow for me.  I'm a little disappointed, but if I don't like the book I'm reading or I'm bored, I will not waste my time finishing it.



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I enjoyed this fun read, that made me laugh at times.  The main character in this book has a funny personality.  

“Ocean’s Eleven meets The Devil Wears Prada” (The Skimm) in this hilarious, razor-sharp debut novel about a group of overeducated and underpaid women who decide they’ve finally had enough...

Rule #1: All important men have assistants. Rule #2: Men rule the world. Still. Rule #3: There is enough money. There is so much money.
  



If you have book recommendations, please let me know.


I will share this post at the monthly book link-up party, Share Your Shelf.  It's held on the first Thursday of each month.  Slices of Life
 

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Julie
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Books I've Read - June 2026

Books I've Read - May 2026

May 7, 2026

 


Hello friends, and happy May! 


This was a good reading month for me, and I'd love to share those books with you.





Most of the books that I've read are from the library using the Libby app.  I love that I can read popular books that I can just download onto my Kindle.   
   


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I enjoyed reading about this family drama that is set after a car accident.  This story kept me on my toes.




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My daughter bought this book to read and lent it to me.  It's a cute rom-com that is set in Italy.  It was such fun to read about being in Italy for 24 hours for a wedding and everything that takes place in that time.  I enjoyed hearing about all of the places they visited and the food.  The book even has a recipe to make an Italian dish. 
 


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I enjoyed this book and other books by this author.  It's about a sort of writing competition for two authors who are trying to get and write about a reclusive woman's life.




If you have book recommendations, please let me know.


I will share this post at the monthly book link-up party, Share Your Shelf.  It's held on the first Thursday of each month.  Slices of Life
 

Click HERE to see the blog parties I will be linking up to.


Julie
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Books I've Read - May 2026

Books I've Read April 2026

April 2, 2026

 


Hello friends and happy April. 😀🌸  


I'd love to share with you the books I've read recently.




All the books that I'v read, are from the library using my the Libby app.  I love that I can read popular books that I can just down load onto my Kindle.      



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I enjoyed reading about the small-town romance and all the characters in Dream Harbor.  This is book 4 of 6 and a book series.  I've read other books by this author and enjoyed this easy read.



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This is book 5 of 6 of the Dream Harbor series.  I tried to read this book, but found it boring and didn't enjoy it.  I returned this book to the library.  



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I enjoyed this book about a girl's weekend that goes bad.  It kept me guessing the whole time, and I couldn't put it down.  



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This is a cute love story that takes place in France.  I enjoyed this light read and would recommend this book. 



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This is book 1 of 3 in a book series.  I love reading books by this author and her summer reads.  I loved this story, and it kept me on my toes.  I was sorry that the ending of this book came to a stop.  I have to continue to read the next book in this series.



If you have book recommendations, please let me know.


I will share this post at the monthly book link-up party, Share Your Shelf.  It's held on the first Thursday of each month.  Slices of Life
 

Click HERE to see the blog parties I will be linking up to.


Julie
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Books I've Read April 2026

Books I've Read - March 2026

March 5, 2026

 

Hello blog friends.  Due to the recent snowstorm and blizzard, I've been reading more than usual.  I'd love to share the books that I've recently read.






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This is my first time reading a book by this author, and she has written a wonderful mystery.  I enjoyed the characters, and I'm hoping there will be a series of these books. 



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This is book three in the Maid's series.  I enjoyed this book just as much as the other two books.  If you like a mystery this is a good one.



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I like reading historical fiction from time to time, and this was a winner.  I loved how it changed from the present to the past.  This was enjoyable read about wartime life and life on Martha's Vineyard in the 1940s.



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This book was a quick read, and I thought it was just Ok.  It kept me on my toes, and I liked that book takes place in Scotland. 
 



If you have book recommendations, please let me know.

I will share this post at the monthly book link-up party, Share Your Shelf.  It's held on the first Thursday of each month.  Slices of Life  




Click HERE to see the blog parties I will be linking up to.


Julie
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Books I've Read - March 2026

Books I've Read in January 2026

February 5, 2026

 


Hello blog friends.  I'd love to share with you the books I've read in so far this year.

 





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I received this book as a Christmas gift from my daughter.  I totally enjoyed reading this book.  It's about Sam and Sadie who meet at kids and then they make and develop video games after meeting again after college.  I liked this book so much that I recommended it for my daughter and husband to read.   




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I've noticed other bloggers raving over this book.  I'm glad it was available to download from my Libby app from the library.  I've enjoyed other books by this author, and I even met her at my daughter's school when my daughter was little.  I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did. 




If you have book recommendations, please let me know.


I will share this post at the monthly book link-up party, Share Your Shelf.  It's held on the first Thursday of each month.  


Slices of Life


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Julie
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Books I've Read in January 2026

Books I've Read - February 2025

February 6, 2025

 

Hello friends and happy February.  It's been so cold out and the perfect time to stay cozy and read some books.  I'd love to share with you the books I read last month.





Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger


Madeline Martin has built a life for herself as the young owner of a thriving business, The Next Chapter Bookshop, despite her tragic childhood and now needing to care for her infirm father. When Harley Granger, a failed novelist turned true crime podcaster, drifts into her shop in the days before Christmas, he seems intent on digging up events that Madeline would much rather forget. She’s the only surviving victim of Evan Handy, the man who was convicted of murdering her best friend Steph, and is suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, also good friends of Madeline’s, who have been missing for nearly a decade. It’s an investigation that has obsessed her father Sheriff James Martin right up until his stroke took his faculties.

Harley Granger has a gift for seeing things that others miss. He wasn’t much of a novelist, but his work as a true crime author and podcaster has earned him fame and wealth―and some serious criticism for his various unethical practices. Still, visiting Little Valley to be closer to his dying father has caused him to look into a case that many people think is closed―and some want reopened. And he has a lot of questions about the night Stephanie Cramer was killed, Ainsley and Sam Wallace disappeared, and Madeline Martin was left for dead, bleeding out on a riverbank.

Since Evan Handy went to jail, three other young women have gone missing, most recently a young college dropout named Lolly. Five young women missing in the same area in a decade. Are they connected? Was Evan Handy innocent after all? Or was there some else there that night? Someone who is still satisfying his dark appetites?

As Christmas approaches and a blizzard bears down, Madeline and her childhood friend Badger return to a past they both hoped was dead―to find the missing Lolly and to answer questions that have haunted them both, discovering that the truth is more terrible and much closer to home than they think.

Coupling a picturesque, cozy setting with a deeply unsettling suspenseful plot, Christmas Presents is a chilling seasonal novella that can be enjoyed all year long.

I love reading a book during the holidays and this was the perfect book for me.  I picked this book to read from the library on the Libby app, on my Kindle.  This book was good and suspenseful, with a few twists.

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid


When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.

Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?

This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game—and searching for a new road to happily ever after.

It's about a married couple who decide to take a break and separate for a year with no contact with each other.  It shows how Lauren handles being separated from her husband and how her family helps her cope and handle the situation.  I enjoyed this book and other books by this author.  I've read Malibu Rising, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones and the Six, Carrie Soto is Back, and loved them all.  

Have you read any good books lately?


I will share this post at the monthly book link-up party Share Your Shelf.  It's held on the first Thursday of each month.  It's run by these bloggers:



Slices of Life
Memphis Bridges
Overflowing With Thanksfulness
The Other Side of the Road


Click HERE to see the blog parties I will be linking up to.


Julie
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