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This is just an awesome spot to sit and read 📚. My in-laws live in the woods and this front porch is surrounded by flowers, buzzing bees 🐝, and hummingbirds. Plus, there are several great babysitters here so I can grab a couple moments to myself 🎉.

Besides reading, I'm going to be watching lots of Olympics today. I love watching as much as possible while they're on! Do you watch a lot of the Olympics too? I think gymnastics is my favorite but I love watching it all.

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Good morning ☀️ I'm at my in-laws' house, so I have a #somethingborrowed stack today 😄. Think a #somethingborrowedstack challenge would catch on? 😆 It's going to be oh so hot here today, so we might just go jump in a lake 🩱.

Are you having a hotter-than-usual summer where you live?

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This book is just exactly what I needed. I am SUCH a mood reader and after two heavier books, this is just a breath of light, fresh air. I'm reading Dear Mrs. Bird before I pick up Pearce's upcoming release, YOURS CHEERFULLY, which follows one of the same characters. I'm only just over 50 pages in, but I can already recommend this for when you need to smile and enjoy something fun.

Do you have to read light stuff between heavier stuff too? What's your favorite "light stuff"?

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Who is an author that has been on your radar forever, but you just haven't managed to get to yet? Kate Morton is that author for me. If you've read her, please tell me your favorite!

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I won a book 🎉
Always pumped to win a book, but this one sounds amazing so I'm super jazzed 👐.

What's the last book you won? Also, any other memoir lovers here?

Phosphorescense Synopsis:
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times.

Over the last decade, we have become better at knowing what brings us contentment, well-being and joy. We know, for example, that there are a few core truths to science of happiness. We know that being kind and altruistic makes us happy, that turning off devices, talking to people, forging relationships, living with meaning and delving into the concerns of others offer our best chance at achieving happiness. But how do we retain happiness? It often slips out of our hands as quickly as we find it. So, when we are exposed to, or learn, good things, how do we continue to burn with them?

And more than that, when our world goes dark, when we're overwhelmed by illness or heartbreak, loss or pain, how do we survive, stay alive or even bloom? In the muck and grit of a daily existence full of disappointments and a disturbing lack of control over many of the things that matter most - finite relationships, fragile health, fraying economies, a planet in peril - how do we find, nurture and carry our own inner, living light - a light to ward off the darkness?

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Which author do you own the most of? At 6, @kristinhannahauthor takes the title for me 🏆. Well, except for the Harry Potter boxed set I have...not counting that one 🙃. I've only read three of these and hope to read the rest soon!

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Happy weekend! I made a paperback #spellthedayinbooks stack to celebrate the weekend 🎉. We're going to a neighboring town's festival today. Hopefully it's not too hot 🥵. What are you up to this weekend? Reading anything great?

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Oh hi! Popping on to share my current read - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by @deepa.anappara. This is my book club's pick for July! Synopsis below. Enjoying it so far 😊. In other bookish news, I was approved via NetGalley for Anthony Doerr's upcoming Cloud Cuckoo Land and I am PUMPED! All the Light We Cannot See is one of my top books of all time and I cannot wait to read his new one 😄😄.

Djinn Patrol synopsis:
Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, below a smoggy sky that doesn’t let through a single blade of sunlight, and all the way at the end of the Purple metro line lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. From his doorway, he can spot the glittering lights of the city’s fancy high-rises, and though his mother works as a maid in one, to him they seem a thousand miles away.

Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.

But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again.

Drawing on real incidents and a spate of disappearances in metropolitan India.

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  July 19, 2021
  
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  July 1, 2021
  
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  June 21, 2021
  
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  Review: Read Aloud Stories with Fred Collection
  
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  Best Books Set in the 1920s (The Ultimate…
  
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  July 8, 2021
  
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