June: A Novel

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In the months after the US declares war on Iraq, an American Muslim teenage girl and her family must navigate identity, friendship, love, and heartache. Shadi has enough going on to have to deal with bigotry, too. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has disappeared. She tries to keep it all inside, but when her heart is also broken, she finally explodes. Bewitched by a Vampire: A Fated Mates Vampire / Witch Paranormal Romance (Eternal Mates Paranormal Romance Series Book 21) Situated in a small town in Ohio, the house has seen a lot of life, love, and heartbreak. The author has taken the liberty of making “Two Oaks” sentient. A charmingly fanciful ploy that might not be accepted by some readers, but was welcomed by this one. I’ve always imagined that really old houses must have memories… Thanks to Crown Publishing, NetGalley and TLC Book Tours for providing me with a digital ARC of this novel in exchange for my unbiased review. I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.”

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June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.” June” is written with a dual time line: the present and 1955. Eerily for me, the 1955 time line mirrored the exact dates I was reading the novel. I guess the calendar that year was the same as 2016. When it was Friday, June 3rd in 1955 I was reading it on Friday, June 3rd, 2016! Cool! As the basis of an identity narrative for the 21st century, I found this utterly compelling. I couldn’t put the book down, and at times I laughed out loud. I also cried. For more than 170 years, the Palm House has provided the ultimate spectacle at Kew, a “masterpiece of design” that forms the focal point of the gardens. This hot and humid space offers an experience that is memorable because it is so physical. It transports you instantly from west London to what Teltscher describes as “a tropical dreamscape, more vivid, more intense, more alive than the everyday world”.

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As I mentioned earlier, the characterization in this novel was top notch. As were the use of apt and charming descriptive phrases. I loved the language of the novel with many of the sentences almost artistic in their rendering. (“on her bicycle, she turned in to the Elm Grove Cemetery, speeding past those gray headboards of eternal rest”) and (“her lustrous hair had grown thin and her face had been swallowed by a conspiracy of chins.”) Oh, I hope you enjoy Malibu Rising. I really enjoyed the family dynamic between the sibings. I think I would have rated it 5 stars, but in the middle TJR follows too many tangents with side characters at the party, which definitely dragged the story down a bit. In case you’re new to Booklist Queen, every month I cover all the hottest new book releases. I try to read as many new book releases as I can to give you an honest perspective on what to read and what to skip.

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Painted battleship grey, the Palm House survived the bombing of London during the second world war. Incredibly, it was almost demolished in the 1950s due to its poor state of repair. In the 1980s it was restored after being dismantled like “an immense Meccano kit”. But the humidity means that a further restoration is due. In this age of climate crisis it is needed more than ever to teach new generations about the importance of rainforests and endangered palms. Years ago Hollywood came to their small town for the filming of the movie “Erie Canal”, and lives became entangled which would forever change the course of their lives. What makes this suspense even more intriguing---in addition to June, Carrie, Lindie, is the gothic type ongoing mystery between the many secondary characters. This is so good, Southern fans will think they are in the Deep South with the sordid past.I received a complimentary copy of this book from Harper. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. But in a postscript written last year, he draws hope from Iceland’s success in confronting the challenge of Covid-19: “the crisis has shown us the importance of understanding science and applying it to future realities.” There might still be time to save the glaciers.

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From 2015 (present) day to 1955 (past), a multi-layered complex coming-of-age tale of redemption, love, loss and family. Norah is a reluctant if expansive narrator, pushing herself to consider intractable things. She is already the author of five novels, in which, she says, there is not much sex or violence: people “just realise things and feel a little sad”. But the story “shouting out to be written” is that of her famous mother, who went crazy and shot an influential film producer in the foot. Magnason’s relationship with Iceland’s glaciers is personal. In 1956, his grandparents spent their honeymoon on the vast Vatnajökull glacier while on an expedition of the Icelandic Glaciological Society. His grandmother still remembers its distinctive smell, “a glacier scent”. She tells him “when you’re up on Vatnajökull, everything disappears; you forget everything. An infinite vastness. An absolute dream.”Three decades on, when Tara develops dementia, the adult Antara takes her into her home. It’s Antara’s internal conflict that forms the novel’s central theme: how do you take care of a mother who once failed to take care of you? Antara examines the question with a self-inspection so unflinching that it makes you catch your breath. “I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure,” she admits coolly. and how it also show's you how difficult it was to being a woman who dressed like a man and loved women in the nineteen fifties and that it wasn't exactly a walk in the park and how far we came to day. I loved this author's first book with a passion and I just knew this one would be wonderful, too. And...it was. It's 2023 today and we're already being prepared for the upcoming changes. People should get used to it.”

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At night, Cassie dreamed of colorful people and events occurring in the house, but her days were troubled by the encroaching weeds in the garden and the mail piling up in the foyer.Oh my goodness, I feel like may is a HUGE month for books I’m interested in. Like nearly everyone I cannot wait for Malibu Rising. Also looking forward to The Maidens, though your review makes me pause. Also interested in Somebody’s Daughter, One Last Stop (I adored red white and royal blue) and 100 Years of Lennon and Margot. Plus I think The Plot also comes out this month, though not on your list. Holy cow! It was so popular that the number of visitors doubled in 1849 to 138,000. Access to Kew Gardens was free, though you had to be “respectably attired”. As one newspaper said of the palms it contained, “we live in a wonderful age when these gigantic children of the sun can be induced to live and flourish among us”. Fans of Karen White and T. Greenwood -literary, historical, mystery, and domestic suspense fans will devour! This is my first novel by this author. This story takes place in dual time frames. I liked the story line. It also had a couple of twists that had me saying, "Very nice." I always like it when I can be surprised. The house as a character was a little weird, but it was a minor role and it was basically used to help move the story forward. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”