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Summer = water play = more independent play 🙌🏻🙌🏻. This is my little @creamandamber and library book stack from my weekend bookish errands 📚. Dear Mrs. Bird and Dear Edward are used. I've been looking for a used copy of Dear Edward to have on my shelves because it was a favorite read for me! Stumbling upon the copy of Dear Mrs. Bird is perfect because I'm getting an ARC of @ajpearcewrites's upcoming book and wanted to read Mrs Bird first. Then I found the @katherinecenter book at the library and couldn't resist!

Have you read any of these?

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Gorgeous weather to do a #floralflatlayformay challenge outside! Question: do you garden? We have a little garden where we try to grow some veggies (and pick them before rodents decide to feast), and I'm planning to plant some flowers around my Little Free Library 😊.

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It was an absolutely gorgeous morning for book browsing @creamandamber 📚💜

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Happy FriYAY! I've got a #lastnownext stack to share today. Finished Moms Don't Have Time To, started The Lost Apothecary last night, and No Hiding in Boise will be next. I have to say, I stayed up later than usual last night reading because I could NOT put The Lost Apothecary down. I'm sitting here at work daydreaming about getting to read more tonight 🤩.

So, that's what I'm reading this weekend! How about you?

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You know what I realized today? This pretty book that has been sitting unread on my shelf for years is by the author of The Beach Read, Emily Henry. I haven't read that one either 😅 but have heard a lot! Have you read A MILLION JUNES?

Synopsis:
In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O'Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except to say it began with a cherry tree.

Eighteen-year-old Jack “June” O’Donnell doesn't need a better reason than that. She's an O'Donnell to her core, just like her late father was, and O'Donnells stay away from Angerts. Period.

But when Saul Angert, the son of June's father's mortal enemy, returns to town after three mysterious years away, June can't seem to avoid him. Soon the unthinkable happens: She finds she doesn't exactly hate the gruff, sarcastic boy she was born to loathe.

Saul’s arrival sparks a chain reaction, and as the magic, ghosts, and coywolves of Five Fingers conspire to reveal the truth about the dark moment that started the feud, June must question everything she knows about her family and the father she adored. And she must decide whether it's finally time for her—and all of the O'Donnells before her—to let go.

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Do you tend toward minimalism (except maybe for books 😜)? I do not. I wish I did, because my house is pretty small and it would be so helpful to have less stuff. Thanks to @celadonbooks for sending me LOVE PEOPLE, USE THINGS by @joshuafieldsmillburn and @ryannicodemus for my Little Free Library! I will definitely try to read this one before it goes out there on June 1.

I paired this one with The Little Book of Living Small by @laura.alice.fenton, which has inspired me to make several steps in the right direction!

Synopsis:
Imagine a life with less: less stuff, less clutter, less stress and debt and discontent--a life with fewer distractions. Now, imagine a life with more: more time, more meaningful relationships, more growth and contribution and contentment--a life of passion, unencumbered by the trappings of the chaotic world around you. What you're imagining is an intentional life. And to get there, you'll have to let go of some clutter that's in the way.

In Love People, Use Things, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus move past simple decluttering to show how minimalism makes room to reevaluate and heal the seven essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money, values, creativity, and people. They use their own experiences--and those of the people they have met along the minimalist journey--to provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life.

Because once you have less, you can make room for the right kind of more.

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Guys. This book was so dang fun! I fully encourage picking this one up.

The story features three middle-aged girlfriends who used to live together, but something wedged Sam (our main character) and Holly apart, while they both stayed friends with Katie. Now, Katie is sick and needs her dog, who is halfway across the country and will only travel by car. So, Sam and Holly agree to team up to go get the pup.

What follows is equally hilarious, heartbreaking, and heartwarming, all at once. I think it's rare to find such a fantastic balance of humor with seriousness like this. The fraught friendships reminded me a little of Kristin Hannah, the writing style reminded me of Katherine Center, and the humor...all Ann Garvin.

I loved I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK and wasn't sure I wanted it to end! Giving it 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Mother's Day is a weird day for me.

I've struggled a bit about how much to share on this account about my personal struggles, but reading has been an extremely important part of my healing and I know I'm not the only person going through this. So, share I must 💜.

My mom died suddenly and unexpectedly in 2014 at the age of 54. Just over 2 years later, my first baby, Jonah, was stillborn at 30 weeks after a valiant fight with a heart condition. Reading (and writing about it) during this time was just absolutely essential to my surviving so much pain. Especially memoir! There's something so cathartic about reading what traumas others have lived through.

My beautiful rainbow baby girl, Halley, is now 4 months away from turning 3. She makes mother's day a heck of a lot easier to endure, but this day will never cease to be a kind-of-sucky-yet-also-nice day for me.

So, on this day, I send my heart to anyone else feeling negative or conflicting feelings. It's okay to feel however you feel 💜.

Note: The pictures are of me as a baby and my mom, and my daughter 🌈.

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  Excerpt Tour: The Stepsisters by Susan Mallery
  
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