My June Reading, 2023

Some of the books I read in June. Click through to read what I thought about these and about a few additional titles as well. Be sure to check back on the conversation that so often evolves here among readers (and makes my TBR list delightfully and impossibly long!)

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How I Fill My Days? Who’s Asking? (How Am I Answering?)

Someone asked me recently how I fill my days. The unspoken connotations of that question rattled me, I realized later, and my answer sold myself short. Been thinking about how to change that. Maybe you can relate? Click through to read more.

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Change, Generations, and a Scramble of Garden Photos

A story about my grandson and a story about my grandma, connected across the generation by a change to . . . well, you’ll see if you read the post. And I’ll update you on my garden while we’re together. Click through, please.

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Mindful Energy Consumption (Personal Energy, that is, in my 70s)

In a busy week as the visiting Nana-in-charge, Something(s) Had to Give! A post about how I conserve (and spend) my energy so as to be My Best Self . . . illustrated by What I Wore photos and a surprising candid shot of a neighbourhood visitor. Click through to read and see more . . .

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What I Read in May

What will you find in my May Reading post? Romance and survival and trauma and loss; domestic fiction, historical fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, a crime thriller, and a war diary. Books that will take you from the frozen north to India’s heat, from contemporary London, England, Amherst, Massachusetts, and New Delhi, India to wartime France and Italy. Click the link to read more — thanks for stopping by!

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Copyright

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