2025 July Reading Wrap Up

 

I read 7 books this month of which 4 were new to me authors for a total of 2464 pages.  The stories ran the gamut from 3 stars to 5 stars. 

my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry by Fredrik Backman -   5 Stars

"Every seven year old deserves a super hero. And whoever disagrees with that need their head examines."  

In Five Years by Rebecca Searle  - 4 Stars

"But all of that is an hour from now. Now, on the other side of midnight, we do not yet know what is coming. So let it be. 

One Last Breath by Laura Griffin - 3 stars 

“She’d been played all along. Once again, the dumb blonde."

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley - 4 stars

“It’s a beautiful building, but there’s something rotten at its heart. Now he’s discovered it he can smell the stench of it everywhere.”

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley - 5 stars

"We're the whole damn cake." Said Bea.

"The whole damn cake." echoed Iona

The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer - 5 Stars 

"It's the first rule of politics. The only time you get hurt is when you forget it's all a game."

Piranesi by Susanna Clark - 4 Stars 

"In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall."