Eldertalk | Injured Book Lady's May Wrapup / June TBR @Eldertalk | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
If you want to know more about what I thought of these books, please refer to my reviews at Goodreads. When I finish a book I review it there first so that's usually written when my mind is still full of the details of the book. By the time I get around to mentioning a book in an end-of-month wrapup video I'm already in the process of forgetting a lot of what I read, so coming up with a good review is a mental struggle. Sorry, that's the human condition and I'm 68 not 16. So... check out my Goodreads reviews if you want to know more of what I really thought about a book.
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New Goodreads friends welcome!

About my injury - if it hadn't been on my face I probably wouldn't have mentioned it - but since it was so obvious, I thought I'd better say something.

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#popsugarreadingchallenge
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BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO

Books I finished or DNF'ed
The Matchlock Gun, by Walter D. Edmonds, 1942 Newbery Medal Winner
Ramona and Her Mother, by Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary, 1982 Newbery Honor Book
What Hearts, by Bruce Brooks, 1993 Newbery Honor Book
We Dream of Space, by Erin Entrada Kelly, 2021 Newbery Honor Book
Wish in the Dark, by Christina Soontornvat, 2021 Newbery Honor Book
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt, 1965 Newbery Honor Book
Blizzard, by Jim Murphy
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Murmur of Bees, by Sofia Segovia, DNF
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (read this in January/February 2021)
Genuine Fraud, by E. Lockhart, DNF
Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Hiding in the Light, by Rifqa Bary
Writing Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon
A New Song, by Jan Karon (Mitford #5)

Still reading...
Mistaken Identity, by multiple authors (Hardback)
The Divine Comedy, by Dante (Paperback)
Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis (Paperback)
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin, 2013 Newbery Honor Book (Paperback)
The World Rushed In, by JS Holliday (Paperback)
Think Thin, Be Thin, by Hemering and Hales (Paperback)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (Kindle)

***Pastoral June Readalong:***
Hosted by Angie @Literary Labors
youtube.com/watch?v=NTYph76m4is

Group Read: Lark Rise to Candleford, by Flora Thompson (Kindle)
1. Pastoral image on the cover:
The Valley of Little Rivers, by Wally Coleman (Paperback)
2. A book with a rural setting:
Incident at Hawk's Hill, by Allen W. Eckert, 1972 Newbery Honor Book (Paperback)
3. A children's book
The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw, 1997 Newbery Honor Book (Paperback)

**Coffee and Books May/June Challenge @Goodreads**
9. Read a book set in a foreign country:
The Endless Steppe, by Esther Hautzig (Paperback)
Thank you Erion @Book Zealots for this book!
7. A book less than 200 pages:
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Kindle)

Also on my June TBR list...
Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers (Paperback)
Ramona Forever, by Beverly Cleary (Paperback)
Ramona's World, by Beverly Cleary (Paperback)
A Common Life by Jan Karon (Kindle)

Forgot to mention... also on my TBR for June...
The Ohlone Way, by Malcolm Margolin (Native American history/Kindle)
The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck (Classic/Audiobook)

I may have to add more audiobooks after finishing The Wayward Bus - I always like to have an audiobook in progress.

My book blog: lindajomartin.com

Goodreads: goodreads.com/lindajm