Reading My TBR Piles ~ June 2022 Edition #TBR

   

YIKES!!

Look familiar? This is sometimes how my TBR piles/shelves feel to me. I have decided to make a more concerted effort to whittle down my TBR books. These will be books that on not on my review stack, but books that I own. These could be print, e-book, or audio-books, just books that I have been wanting to read. So, on the first Wednesday of each month I'm going to post the books that I read the previous month with the goal to clear off my TBR shelves.

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I haven't posted one of these since March so this is quite a list I guess. Compiling this did make me realize that I'm better at clearing out my audiobooks than my print books. But I guess there's nothing wrong with that. 

What have you recently cleared off of your TBR shelf?

Print

The Dress Shop of Dreams

by Menna van Praag

What a Woman Must Do

by Faith Sullivan

I actually met Ms. Sullivan at a book festival and she autographed this book for me. 💖

Night

(The Night Trilogy #1)

by Elie Wiesel

Heartbreaking!

Audio-book

Hadley & Grace

by Suzanne Redfearn

Used for a reading challenge.

An Unfinished Story

by Boo Walker

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah 

I previously read this and now listened to it. So, so good!

The Bad Place

by Dean Koontz

Nobody does bad like Koontz!

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? May 16, 2022 #IMWAY

        

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Well, we had quite the ending to our week. Big storms were predicted and man did we get them! We ended up with a tornado warning Thursday about 5:30 pm. Some did touch down around us and we experienced a haboob and a derecho (a haboob happens when a thunderstorm spawns such powerful winds that they generate a dust storm that drastically reduces visibility. Meteorologists said that the wall of dust is technically part of a derecho, which is a powerful wind storm extending more than 240 miles, with a line of quickly-moving thunderstorms.) You can all thank me later for the weather lesson. 😁

There were reports of 90+ mph winds in places. Everything went black because of the dust blowing and then we lost power. We were without electricity for about 28 hours. Luckily we still had water. There are trees down everywhere in town. We drove around a bit last night and it is devastating to see all those old trees toppled by the roots. I didn't hear of any injuries, thankfully, just lots of damage.

Video credit: Jack Sloan

https://youtu.be/2nQ6frdJrEg

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The Favor

by Nora Murphy

Pub date May 31

Hadley & Grace

by Suzanne Redfearn

Narrated by Christina Traister, Sarah Naughton, Peter Simonelli 

What I recently finished

The Dress Shop of Dreams

by Menna van Praag

Off of my TBR shelves.

What a Woman Must Do

by Faith Sullivan

Another one from my TBR stash.

What I am going to read next

The Wait

(The Seaside Saga #15)

by Joanne DeMaio

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Book Spotlight Giveaway! The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag

I have sooooo many books! The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy these treasures.

The book I am giving away this week is another one that I found duplicates of when I rearranged my book shelves. Whoops. That must mean I really want to read this one. And I do! I need to move it up my TBR pile–it sounds so good.  

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Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

The Dress Shop of Dreams

The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag 

Ex-library book, 326 pages

Published December 30th 2014 by Ballantine Books

For fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Adriana Trigiani, The Dress Shop of Dreams is a captivating novel of enduring hopes, second chances, and the life-changing magic of true love.

Since her parents’ mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta’s dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta’s charming tiny store appears quite ordinary to passersby, but the colorfully vibrant racks of beaded silks, delicate laces, and jewel-toned velvets hold bewitching secrets: With just a few stitches from Etta’s needle, these gorgeous gowns have the power to free a woman’s deepest desires.

Etta’s dearest wish is to work her magic on her granddaughter. Cora’s studious, unromantic eye has overlooked Walt, the shy bookseller who has been in love with her forever. Determined not to allow Cora to miss her chance at happiness, Etta sews a tiny stitch into Walt’s collar, hoping to give him the courage to confess his feelings to Cora. But magic spells—like true love—can go awry. After Walt is spurred into action, Etta realizes she’s set in motion a series of astonishing events that will transform Cora’s life in extraordinary and unexpected ways.

About the author

Menna van Praag was born in Cambridge, England and studied Modern History at Oxford University. Her first novella - an autobiographical tale about a waitress who aspires to be a writer - Men, Money & Chocolate has been translated into 26 languages. Her first work of literary fiction, The House at the End of Hope Street, was inspired by an idea the author had to set up a house for female artists to give them a year to fulfil their artistic ambitions. 

The Dress Shop of Dreams, is set on the magical street of All Saints Passage where a scientist falls in love with a mysterious man who has a magical voice. The Witches of Cambridge will be released February, 2016. All van Praag's novels are set among the colleges, cafes and bookshops of Cambridge, England. ~ Amazon

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