Thank you, thank you all for your fantastic responses to Emma and I keeping 20 books going. The number of sign-ups and comments on the planning post is just brilliant.
If you still need to pick up the logos for the different numbers of books, or the bingo card, do visit the original post HERE.
🩱🍦🍹🏝️🩴😎 HAPPY SUMMER READING! 😎🩴🍹🏝️🍦🩱
Now here’s the place for your JUNE reviews...
OK, as you know I jumped the gun ever so slightly and started reviewing the first three of my 20 Books of Summer before June started (I was afraid I might forget otherwise). Am about to review the fourth, so will add that link when it’s available. It’s just that I think I may not be able to do much in August, so trying to be ahead of the game.
How exciting! I can’t wait to start reading some of the books I have selected. 🥳📚✨
Exciting! I am about half-way through my first book, whcih I’m really pleased with as it’s a biggie!
Just finished my first Books of Summer choice and it was a cracking start – a debut short story collection from a New Zealand writer, Eva Wyles. Published this year by Influx Press and well worth picking up.
Linked my first two reviews!
OOopsie, I put Small Island down twice. Clearly, I can’t remember or read properly… So embarrassing!
It happens to us all! 😀
Book two finished, and another belter – an imagining of the 18 months of exile spent by Benito Juárez in New Orleans before he went home to Mexico and became the country’s first indigenous president.
I’m onto my sixth title and it’s not yet the end of June so I may have to up my 10 Books of Summer goal! Thanks both of you for taking up the mantle of this aestival literary fest. 🙂
I finished my third book tonight, which is a memoir by a woman of African and White British heritage. She has lived a remarkable life – the first woman of colour to be President of the Students Union at Leicester University and a seasoned activist, campaigner and development facilitator working around the world, advocating for women of colour. The memoir is both joyful and sobering.
I just read your review. It must have been hard for her when she was a kid, but what an inspiring woman.
I just posted my first review of one of my 20 Books of Summer but neglected to note the title. It was Death by Accident by Bill Crider. I will try to add the title next time.
I have read 5 books for my list which isn’t very many, and this is the first one I have reviewed. All of them have been good reads.
TracyK at Bitter Tea and Mystery
I read 6 books off my list and reviewed 2 of them which I’ve linked above.
I am counting 3 books for June – A Novel Murder by EC Nevin (ebook, review)
You’ve Awoken Her by Ann Dávila Cardinal (physical, TBR, review)
Deep End by Ali Hazelwoodv (physical, TBR)
Can’t believe I hadn’t posted my reviews here previously—whoops! Doing that now (and on the July roundup post…)
Say, will this linky party stay open after September 1, because I’m almost finished with another book, but won’t be able to post my review before September 2.
It certainly will for another week.