Hello there! Happy Tuesday!

Ahhh, we reached the end of the second quarter of 2025. The reading year is HALFWAY OVER!

It took me a bit to finally get this put together with the whirlwind trips ~ and now I’m on the road AGAIN today! This time I’m heading east across the state for a few nights with my sister-friend Suzanne and (some of) our kids at the beach on Lake Michigan (in the Malibu of the Midwest!), and then a few nights with my girls at a campsite in Door County (the Cape Cod of the Midwest!). If you click those links, you will see I did NOT make those names up.

I can’t wait to tell you all about this trip in the future, but for now, let’s look at a bunch of books …

I went through ALL of the books I read in April, May, and June and found ELEVEN that I didn’t include in any of my other newsletters thus far and that I don’t plan to share elsewhere in the future. Some I haven’t shared because I didn’t have much great to say about them, but others I never shared about because I just had so many other great books to write about that week or I was planning to include them in a roundup that never happened.

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