TELL ME TUESDAY
NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
LAST. NOW. NEXT.
JUNE READING WRAP-UP
*tidbits*
TELL ME TUESDAY is a floating feature, depending on your reading style, where you tell us what you read last, what you are reading now, what you will be reading next from your TBR pile, and why.
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I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!
ONE BOOK A WEEK
I'm still trying to keep my reading down to one book a week
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For the last two years I have been trying to cut my reading back to one book a week, but this year I am usually six or seven books behind that goal. Life is a fickle thing. I'm only five books behind this month!
★★★★★
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
HISTORICAL FICTION
JAMAICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE
JAMAICAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
FAMILY
Published 2022 - Libby Borrow
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This story is real and gritty. It was a heart-wrenching and nerve-rattling ride. It's wonderful and insightful. This was my first book for Carib-A-Thon and also Caribbean-American Heritage Month.
★★
MIDDLE GRADE
SERIES ONE
FANTASY
MAGIC
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
BULLYING
Published 2021 - Owned Ebook
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The very beginning and very end of this book were delightful. The start of the story was whimsical and I was happy to have found a Middle Grade which seemed written with the younger end of that readership in mind. It felt like a great bridge between beginner chapter books and MG; that was until there was gun violence. This seems to be a regular thing with British MG authors as of late, and well... to me it's disturbing. After the gun violence scene the reading level jumped up and some of the themes became more like Young Adult. The last quarter of the story, minus the very end, was crammed full of gross imagery just for grossness sake. It's too bad because the magical system was creative and fresh, and it pointed out that tomboys are just girls who like to do "boy things" and like "boy clothes" because it's easier to do those boy things in what's considered boy clothes, it doesn't need to mean they want to actually be a boy.
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The ebook I purchased was on sale for 99¢ and it irked me to the point that I deleted it from my Kindle library. Heh.
★★★★★
LITERARY FICTION
HISTORICAL FICTION
STANDALONE
JAMAICAN CULTURE
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Publiśhed 2011 - Own Ebook
★★★★★
YOUNG ADULT
STANDALONE
HISTORICAL FICTION
ANTIGUA
Published1985 - Kindle Unlimited
JUNE READING WRAP-UP
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BOOKS READ
FIVE
ARCS
NONE
PHYSICAL BOOKS
NONE
EBOOKS
FIVE
AUDIOBOOKS
NONE
MANGA - GRAPHIC NOVELS - COMICS
NONE
MIDDLE GRADE
ONE
YOUNG ADULT
ONE
ADULT FICTION
TWO
NONFICTION
ONE
RE-READ
NONE
FAVORITE JUNE READ
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2024
YEAR TO DATE TOTALS
BOOKS READ
20
(six books behind schedule)
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NONFICTION 3/12
MIDDLE GRADE 2/6
NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS I/4
MUSIC 2/6
PLAYS 0/4
BACKLIST ARCS 0/4
CLASSICS 1/3
RE-READS 1/3
FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 1/12
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MIDDLE GRADE - 2
YOUNG ADULT - 3
ADULT FICTION - 12
NONFICTION - 3
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GRAPHIC NOVELS/MANGA - 0
AUDIOBOOKS - 8
EBOOKS - 11
PHYSICAL COPIES - 0
BORROWED - 11
ARCS - 3
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I will say the US book was more than a bit of a disappointment, ha ha, and Canada's made perfect sense.
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