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."

Reading Log as of July 09, 2025 - In Five Years

 

I’m currently still on Y for the A to Z and Back Again alphabet challenge so reading In Five Years by Rebecca Serle which has captured my attention. Not easy to do these days.

“Where do you see yourself in five years?

When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan.

But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It’s the same night—December 15—but 2025, five years in the future.

After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can’t shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn’t the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind.

That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.”

So Dannie skips ahead five years in the future for one hour, meets a man, who she'll meet later, whose in love with her best friend who is dying. What does she do? 4 Stars