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Spell the Month in Books: September

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Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks. To participate, find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! You can share anytime by the end of the month. Some months have additional themes, but feel free to participate however you’d like!

There isn’t a theme set for September (or at least not as far as I’ve seen)… so I’m choosing my own. Since September is traditionally the start of the school year (although where I live, school already started up again in August), my theme for this month is books with a school setting.

Here are my SEPTEMBER books:

S:

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

E:

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

P:

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay


T:

True Biz by Sara Nović

E:

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

M:

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

B:

The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel

E:


Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

R:

Rules at the School by the Sea by Jenny Colgan


Happy September!

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Nationalities In The Title

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books With Nationalities In The Title with the prompt providing example such as The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Mexican Gothic, An American Marriage, etc. Well, clearly I can’t use those! But I did manage to come up with ten others…

  1. The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
  2. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (review)
  3. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
  4. My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith (review)
  5. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende (review)
  6. The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
  7. The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris (review)
  8. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sanchez (review)
  9. A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey (review)
  10. American Hippo by Sarah Gailey (review)

What books made your list this week? Do we have any in common?

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Spell the Month in Books: August

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Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks. To participate, find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! You can share anytime by the end of the month. Some months have additional themes, but feel free to participate however you’d like!

There isn’t a theme set for August (or at least not as far as I’ve seen), so I’m making up my own! August is my son’s birth month… and while he’s a full-grown young adult now, I have so many happy memories of reading books together throughout his childhood. So, in honor of my birthday boy, my August theme is… books I read with my kiddo!

Note: It was hard to come up with two U titles that we’ve actually read! So, I fudged a bit with the 2nd U… but I feel like my pick still works!

Here are my AUGUST books:

A:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

U:

The Unseen Guest (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1) by Maryrose Wood

G:

Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman


U:

Great Day for UP by Dr. Seuss

UP! UP! UP!
Great day for UP!

Wake every person, pig and pup,
till EVERYONE on earth is up!

S:

The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson

T:

Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, #1) by Patricia C. Wrede


Happy August! Enjoy the sunshine… and plenty of good books!

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Spell the Month in Books: July

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Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks. To participate, find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! You can share anytime by the end of the month. Some months have additional themes, but feel free to participate however you’d like!

It looks like themes haven’t been added for a while, so I’ll make up my own. For me, July represents spending time outdoors to enjoy gorgeous summer weather, so I searched for books with cover images that fit. (My J book is a hold-over from June… I couldn’t find anything with a summer/outdoor vibe that I liked better!)

A quick note: I’m traveling this week and trying to avoid screens and devices as much as possible! I’ll be pretty limited when it comes to replying to comments and doing some blog-hopping… and I’ll look forward to catching up once I’m back home!

Here are my JULY books:

J:

Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

U:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

L:

The Love Haters by Katherine Center


Y:

You Have a Match by Emma Lord


Happy July! Wishing everyone some terrific outdoor time this month.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Getting fancy: Books with titles in a cursive font

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with Handwriting on the Cover.

The topic got me thinking: Do kids still learn to write in cursive these days? I’m guessing not. I used to have a fairly nice cursive handwriting… and now when I attempt it, it’s mainly a big, messy scrawl. Sigh. I love how quick and easy it is to use a keyboard, but it’s a bit sad to think about handwriting as a lost art.

By the way, did you know that the National Archives is looking for people who can read cursive to volunteer to transcribe historical documents? Sounds like a really fun project… that I’ll bookmark for when I have more free time in my life! Learn more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/

Back to the books! Rather than focusing on actual handwriting, I just started looking through my physical and digital shelves for book titles in cursive fonts… and found more than I expected! Here’s a round-up of 13 that I really like… because I couldn’t decide which to drop to get to ten.

  1. Cinnamon & Gunpowder by Eli Brown
  2. Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
  3. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  4. Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
  5. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
  6. All’s Fair in Love and War by Virginia Heath
  7. The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay
  8. Off the Map by Trish Doller
  9. Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery
  10. Pride by Ibi Zoboi
  11. Reputation by Lex Croucher
  12. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
  13. The One That Got Away by Mike Gayle
  14. Love Lettering by Kate Claybourn

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Spell the Month in Books: June

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Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks. To participate, find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! You can share anytime by the end of the month. Some months have additional themes, but feel free to participate however you’d like!

It looks like themes haven’t been added for a while, so I’ll make up my own. June means the start of summer, and what better way to welcome those sunny, beachy vibes than to highlight books with “summer” in the title? I tried to stick with books I’ve actually read… but ended up having to include a TBR book for the letter N!

Here are my JUNE books:

J:

Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

U:

Until Next Summer by Ali Brady

N:

The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson


E:

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune


Happy June! Here’s to blue skies, warm beaches, and gorgeous sunshine-filled days!

If you spelled the month in books, please leave me a link to your post — I’d love to see it!

Spell the Month in Books: May

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Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks. To participate, find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! You can share anytime by the end of the month. Some months have additional themes, but feel free to participate however you’d like!

I didn’t see a theme posted for May, so I decided to go with one of my own. My book list for May is focused on May Flowers… books covers with at least a flower or two! With only three letters to work with, it’s a quick list to put together… although as usual, “Y” books are the hardest to find.

Here are my MAY books:

M:

Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy

A:

The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay

Y:

The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth



Happy May! Wishing everyone a month filled with flowers!

If you spelled the month in books, please leave me a link to your post — I’d love to see it!

Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is April Showers, with the prompt: Interpret this however you’d like: rainy day reads, books that make you cry, books that give you happy tears, books to wash away a bad reading experience, books set in rainy places, books with rain/raindrops/umbrellas on the cover, blue book covers, etc.

I’ve decided to go with the rain theme: “Rain” in the title, or rain on the cover, or a cover/title that’s rain-adjacent (hence the umbrella covers!). Here are my ten:

  1. In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire: Story set in the world of the Wayward Children series
  2. Nothing But the Rain by Naomi Salman: On my TBR
  3. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie: I have a copy of the paperback on my shelf, but haven’t read it yet
  4. Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes: And yet another owned but not read!
  5. Rainwater by Sandra Brown: A book group book from over five years ago
  6. The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer: An umbrella not just on the cover, but important to the plot! (amazing book)
  7. The Umbrella Academy graphic novel series: I’ve read the first volume in this series — this is the image from the Netflix series, but I like the look of it much better than the book cover
  8. Gathering Storm by Maggie Craig: Terrific historical fiction… and storms are rain-adjacent!
  9. Soulless by Gail Carriger: OK, granted, it’s the Parasol Protectorate series… but the cover image looks much more like an umbrella than a parasol to me
  10. Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra: Read with a book group something like 20 years ago! I don’t think I understood more than half of it… but I do like the title and cover

What April Showers books did you feature this week?

Share your link, and I’ll come check out your top 10!

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles That Describe Me/My Life

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Book Titles That Describe Me/My Life, with the prompt: Example titles: Well Traveled could describe you if you like to travel, Hotshot Doc could describe you if you’re an awesome doctor, Falling into Place could describe a life where things are starting to work out, An Infinite Love Story could describe your relationship, It Could Have Been Her could describe a thing you’re happy you avoided or a path you could have taken but didn’t. You can explain your choices or not, and they can be as specific or as abstract as you’d like.

Fun challenge! I searched my bookshelves, and here’s what I’ve come up with:

  1. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree: Coffee and books sum up my life pretty accurately!
  2. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan: My husband is the family cook… and yes, I know how lucky I am!
  3. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune: I love planning vacations, and try to find something new to explore each summer.
  4. Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire: Fields, trails, paths by the beach… get me outside with space to walk and appreciate the views, and I’m happy.
  5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain: I haven’t made it to Camelot, but I’m originally from Connecticut, and even though it still feels like home, I’ve lived far away from there most of my adult life.
  6. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell: My fandoms bring me joy! It’s the little pop culture moments that add a bit of zing.
  7. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan: Sweets are my weakness, and I will never say no to meeting a friend at a bakery
  8. Finding Fraser by KC Dyer: Reading Outlander for the first time, over 15 years ago, not only introduced me to a favorite series and characters but also led me to my book group, which brings me so much joy.
  9. Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire: Dancing has been a big part of my life since childhood! Not in a polished performance — but in the chaotic way that recreational dancing brings people together and provides endless enjoyment and fresh challenges
  10. A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi: Being a mom — even now that my kids are grown — means the world to me.

Do you have book titles that describe your life?

Share your link, and I’ll come check out your top 10!

Spell the Month in Books: April

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Spell the Month in Books is a monthly meme hosted by Jana at Reviews from the Stacks. To participate, find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! You can share anytime by the end of the month. Some months have additional themes, but feel free to participate however you’d like!

This month’s theme is a choice: Easter OR Pastel Covers. I’m going pastels… because I can’t figure out how to do an Easter theme (I don’t think I know of enough books with bunnies on the cover!)

Here are my APRIL books:

A:

Angel’s Peak by Robyn Carr

P:

Pardon My Frenchie by Farrah Rochon

R:

Reputation by Lex Croucher


I:

In the Quick by Kate Hope Day

L:

The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain



I hope everyone is having a great start to April! If you spelled the month in books, please leave me a link to your post — I’d love to see it!