books I read this month / thoughts

What I read in June 2024

Look at that page number! So even!

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman (sad)

Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler (interesting)

Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones (ok)

The Note by Alafair Burke (blah)

While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi (really uneven)

This Motherless Land by Nikki May (fun family saga)

Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie (ok)

The Examiner by Janice Hallett (uneven)

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard (eh)

There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch (strange)

The New Girl by Nora Valters (quick, forgettable)

Here for You by Nora Valters (quick, forgettable)

Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius by Carrie Courogen (interesting)

Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron (too close to home with all of the elder care and housing!)

Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir by Sara Glass (a mess)

Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie (ok)

Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (gossipy!)

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney (ok)

One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon (really poor retelling of the Stepford Wives)

Christa Comes Out of Her Shell by Abbi Waxman (boring)

The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper(interesting)

Sandwich by Catherine Newman (good)

Middle of the Night by Riley Sager (like a Hardy Boys book for adults!)

What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris (ok, close to home!)

Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie (ok)

1974: A Personal History by Francine Prose (I don’t quite understand the point)

A Finer End by Deborah Crombie (so bad I switched to reading it from audio so I could finish it)

Reunion by Elise Juska (eh)

A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo (solid!)

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