Goodbye June. Hello steamy July! Here in the US, the month of firecrackers and BBQ (and some would say beer). If you’re not in America, you can toast to our health. (Heaven knows we need it!)
It always concerns me when I see what was a fawn (now a wayward teenage deer) wondering around carelessly by herself. Now I know why! Today the doe with her new baby was spotted scarfing up mulberries down by my fairy garden. The fawn still had all her spots. So cute. And fortunately, neither mother nor baby checked out my veggie garden. Well, they are too late anyway–the bunnies got the fresh, tender edibles while somehow avoiding the kale. I’d have gladly traded them the kale for the Swiss chard!
Still concentrating on outside activities, the three “gardens,” fairy, veggie, and flower bed along with inside projects, I did manage to get in eleven reviews. Several author requests, one for Sage’s Book Tours, several for Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours, books from NetGalley, and one audiobook. If you missed any of these reviews, please see the links below.
Those were some great books, including several with my five stars! Links to the June reviews:
Pysanky Promise – Cathy Witbeck
Murder She Uncovered – Peg Cochran
Sam Wick Rapid Thriller series – Chase Austin
The Alchemist of Lost Souls – Mary Lawrence
When Sally Comes Marching Home – Richard Milton
Across the River – Richard Snodgrass
The Image Seeker – Amanda Hughes
A Fantasy Writers’ Handbook by Richie Billing
Mistaken Identity Crisis – James J Cudney
The Hiding Place – CJ Tudor
Digging Up History – Sheila Connolly
My Goodreads Challenge is on track. The NetGalley Challenge, however, is definitely OFF track. In a desperate frenzy to get somewhat back ON track, I went to NetGalley and requested eleven books, received two on “Read Now” (Rewind and Fatal Cajun Festival) and placed Denali by Ben Moon on their Wish list. Any chance of getting that one? Here are the two I’ll be starting now:
Of the eight remaining requested, received today approval for three, Tracking Game, 29 Seconds, and A Cold Trail. Hopefully, if all are accepted for download, it won’t blow me out of the 80 percentile! Do you see something here you’ve read?
Awaiting request approval:
July is, once again, an eclectic mix of genres that include everything from a cozy mystery to thrillers. Of course, these won’t all be July reads, the #tbr is spread over several months with two of these releasing in November and one in 2020. I received four notices of “Loans” available from my library audiobook requests and, slammed, managed to get through two before the other two fell off the list and back into the library. I posted the audiobook review for The Hidden Place (see link above) and just finished another called The Road Home by Richard Paul Evans. And guess what? It’s the third in the series. But it is excellent! I’ll be reviewing that one shortly.
One short note with WordPress, again (or still), most of the bloggers I follow have to be refollowed every time I visit. I’m not sure how this happens and last time I corrected worked for two days before it reverted. I do like hearing from all of you and will continue to try and find you and refollow.
As always, please share with me your ideas for great reads and thank you so much for taking the time to read and like my posts and leave those comments. They are SOOO appreciated!
©2019 V Williams
Have you ever made up a list on the WP Reader? You can add blogs to a list without following them and then see their posts by clicking on the list.That means (I think) they still come up even if for some reason the “follow” is lost.
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Made a list? No, but that is how I go to find you and the others I follow. Nina at cozy pages pointed it out to me. Still so much I didn’t know. Scrolling the reader does help. It annoys me, however, that I can’t ever get notifications of your posts. Thank you for your help..
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Steamy July made me think you are reading erotica… And I scrolled faster than I have ever to see the book with semi naked pic… Alas… Unless they are masked
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Sorry Shalini, my steamy is temps. No erotica for me. You are feeling better these days, yes?
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Sounds like June was a very busy month. I need to do a month end post as well. Thanks for the post on books you received as I had missed the Margaret Mizushima one. Have a great July and hopefully the deer won’t find you veggies. The bunnies ate my broccoli, but left everything else.
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Those owl things I put in the garden don’t bother those rabbits at all. And yes, when I saw mizushima’s book I jumped on it. Love her k9 series.
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Oh! And was going to say so far the deer are concentrating on the mulberries. Those trees are down in the fairy garden.
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Better the deer than birds. I had mulberries and was constantly cleaning up purple bird poop on my patio. 😆
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Yes! Have seen it on the sidewalks when we walk the dog.
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