Spell the Month in Books - June

Reviews From the Stacks

For 2025 I have decided to have a go at Spell the Month in Books which is hosted at Reviews From the Stacks. The link party opens on the first Saturday of the month, but I won't be posting until after that as I already have other things scheduled every Saturday and for the first two Sundays of the month. I will be sharing this post with Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz.

The idea is that you use the title of books to spell the month name. The theme  for June is Books that you found or currently see at the library! Once again I am grateful to my past self who used to record where her books came from and so I was able to find my books for this prompt. These days I record it in a different place.

So here are my choices for June

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey - This is a coming of age story set in Western Australia. I liked this one but I still haven't read anything more by him!

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - I remember being so moved by this book. 

Naked in Death by J.D. Robb - I read the first 18 books in this series, and then just kind of stopped without really meaning too. It does astonish me that there are currently 60 books in the series with at least another two to come. Given that J D Robb also writes as Nora Roberts, it's pretty astonishing really. (My review)

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell - Oh, this book! When I was doing this post I went back and found my review of this book. Sometimes, when I read old reviews I am surprised by them, and so it was with this review! The book clearly impacted me at the time.(My Review)

July's theme is Set in a fantasy world or fictional place.

Will you be joining us?

Six Degrees of Separation: Trust to Lords of the White Castle

 

Welcome to this month's edition of Six Degrees of Separation, which is a monthly meme hosted by Kate from Books Are My Favourite and Best.  The idea is to start with a specific book and make a series of links from one book to the next using whatever link you can find and see where you end up after six links.  I am also linking this post up with The Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz. 

 

This month the starting point is Trust by Hernan Diaz

My first link is using the surname Diaz. I have chosen the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

From there, my next choice is an Oscar winner, The Lost Thing by Australian author Shaun Tan.

There are many books that we could choose for the word lost. In fact, I once did a whole post just about lost things for Top Ten Tuesday not too long ago.  I have chosen The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde for this post.

My next link is to Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey.

I am once again linking from the surname, this time to Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

And for my last link I am using the word castle to Lords of the White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick

Next month the starting point is Passages by Gail Sheehy.