Welcome to July! I have a writing retreat (more on the specifics tomorrow) and a reading retreat this month, and I start my new job..soon-ish? Other than my regularly scheduled festivities, those are the things I’m looking forward to the most. I think *knocks on wood* that my schedule is easier this month outside of work (which is good, because it is absolutely nuts at work), so I should have a lot of reading time.
Book Clubs
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub – First book club read of the month, and also satisfies the Girlxoxo Keyword Challenge (keyword: this).
- Solito by Javier Zamora
- FTR’s choose your own adventure this month is romance, so I’m going with either The Scandalous Letters of V and J by Felicia Davin or This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (or both). The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen is described by Modern Mrs. Darcy as “part You’ve Got Mail, part Pushing Daisies, and part The Princess Bride,” so I feel like I need to read it as soon as possible, too.
- For the Rise and Shine book club, I’m trying to decide between a few to match our theme of novels set outside the U.S. A couple that I have at home are Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, but I have also wanted to read The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa and The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy for a while.
- Will They or Won’t They by Ava Wilder
- How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
- Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
MMD
- The Murder of Mr. Wickham so I can follow up with The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray. I realize the second one is the only one that’s technically on MMD’s minimalist list, and that she says it can stand alone, but I just cannot bring myself to read a series out of order.
- Similarly, I’m also going to read Here For It: Or, How To Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas before I read his newest collection of essays, which is on the MMD challenge, when it comes out in August.
- The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle – I intend to get lost in the nostalgia of the objects the main character finds right along with her.
- The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty – I haven’t read a good pirate tale in a while. I’m really looking forward to it.
TBR/Collection
Dewey’s Reverse Readathon is scheduled for July 21-22, so I will probably have some time to finish up a few things I’ve started in the past couple of months but have not finished.
- The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
- Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
That should keep me busy! I hope you have a great July.
M. Suzanne Terry 
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