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I think I misunderstood the theme of this month. What books make me happy? Most of the time I am closest to happy when I am reading, so it doesn't really matter to me what I read. Actually shopping for new books and thinking about what to read next makes me happy. With that in mind, I am adding a few books to the TBR.TBR of happy, happy, happy:
- Notes to John by Joan Didion - will read in July, hopefully
-The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin - hope to get to this one sometime
-Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love edited by Andrew Blauer - sigh, didn't get to this one
-The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams - sigh, my TBR was too long
Currently reading (not on theme):
- A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary by Virginia Woolf
Finished reading
- Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman, finished 6/5/25, 5 stars (last month's theme)
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl - finished reading, 6/8/25, 4 stars (happy and fun)
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen, finished 6/21/2025, 4 stars (happy to read, fun, serious)
-The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg, finished 6/13/25, 5 stars (reading Elizabeth Berg always makes me happy)
- The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff - finished 6/15/25, 5 stars (loved reading this book!)
-Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, finished 6/24/2025, 5 stars
-Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - finished 6/20/25, 5 stars
June Jubilee 2025Cozy mysteries make me happy
Mayhem in Christmas River Meg Muldoon 6/2/25
Mousse, Murder and Mayhem Amber Crewes 6/6/25
Cruise Millions A.R. Winters 6/13/25
Mining, Mayhem and Murder Martina Dalton 6/11/25
Kittens and Killers Jinty James 6/4/25
Artful Deception Ellen Le Teace 6/5/25
Forever Liesl Charmian Carr 6/12/25
A Final Brush with Murder Daisy Belle 6/15/25
A Body at the Book Fair Ellie Alexander 6/16/25
Could not be a more Apropos month theme for me, because June is always SciFi Summer at Seasons of Reading Readathon!🚀🚀🚀🛸🛸🛸 This June I plan to focus on Chinese Science Fiction! Plus some British and American SF as well, including Stephen Baxter, Adrian Tchaikovsky (who has 2 new releases on June 3!), Michael Mammay, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, and Israeli (Noam Josephides).Theme Icon = 🚀🛸
Titles Accomplished:
In Progress:
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3. GRONE: Legends of the Known Arc Book 1 🔭🪐🌝
Titles Read:
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6. WIFE NO 19 [1875] Mount TBR. NF. 😊Memoir.
7. MONSTER IN THE LAKE. NG ARC 😊Current Children.
8. DEATH AT THE SANATORIUM. 😊Iceland. Libby Virtual.
9. SNEAK PEEK FOR HEMLOCK & SILVER. own, new. 😊
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12. SLOT MACHINE FEVER DREAMS. Chris Bohjalian. OBSESSION Series. KU Virtual.
13. BLOWBACK. NG ARC Mount TBR.
14. 🛸SINOPTICON. Kindle and NG ARC Mount TBR.
15. 🛸DADDY'S WORLD. WJW. own new.
16. ARE WE READY FOR A PET? Edelweiss ARC Children
17. NO...I'M A FLAMINGO. Edelweiss ARC Children.
18. 🛸DINOSAURS. WJW. own new.
19. FARTING FISH. Edelweiss ARC Children.
20. MEOWY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. Edelweiss ARC Children.
21. SCRAP QUILTS FROM CRUMBS... Edelweiss ARC.
22. NEW WAYS TO CROCHET. Edelweiss ARC.
23. SIMPLE MEAL SOLUTIONS FOR INSULIN RESISTANCE. Edelweiss ARC.
24. 🛸MY FIRST SPACE DISCOVERIES. Edelweiss ARC Children.
25. 🛸MY TEACHER IS AN ANDROID. NG ARC Children.
26. THE PRESIDENT'S BRAIN IS MISSING. Hoopla Virtual. SF.
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. 28. 🛸THE FIRST ROBOT PRESIDENT. NG ARC MOUNT TBR.
29. 🛸NEW ADVENTURES IN SPACE OPERA. NG ARC MOUNT TBR.
30. 🛸NEW VOICES IN CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION. Mount TBR.
31. 🛸HANDY PANDAS..Edelweiss ARC Children
32. 🛸THE DAY I HAD A SPACESHIP..Edelweiss ARC Children.
33. 🛸PERSEIDS AND OTHER STORIES. Hoopla Virtual.
34. F. MILLIE AND THE GOAT. Children. Hoopla Virtual Bonus borrow.
35. GILBERT IS NOT AFRAID. Hoopla Virtual Bonus borrow. Children.
36. A FAMILY LIKE OURS. Hoopla Virtual Bonus. Children.
Avid's June Jubilee 2025TBR
Dial A for Aunties
Earls Trip
Stealing Home
Meat Cute: The Hedgehog Incident
Royal Valentine
Haunted Ever After
My Salty Mary
My Vampire Plus-One
Dream On, Ramona Riley
Funny Story
Currently Reading
Fits Theme
TBR List
Shelved on GR
Non-TBR
Not Themed
TBR List
Shelved on GR
Non-TBR
Those that meet the theme are marked with asterisksCurrently reading:
- Black Sheep*
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- This Coven Won't Break
- An Unlikely Proposition*
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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The rest will be:
- Akata Witch
- All the Stars Align*
- All These Bodies
- The Amalfi Curse*
- Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
- The Babysitters Coven
- The Bad Ones
- The Ballad of Darcy and Russell*
- The Bang-Bang Sisters
- Batgirl: Possession
- Beach Read
- Bed and Breakup*
- Begin Again*
- Bemused
- The Bewitching Hour: A Tara Prequel*
- The Book of Elsewhere
- Bunny
- Butcher & Blackbird
- Cake Eater
- Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop*
- Cinema Speculation
- The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore*
- Cold Eternity
- Cuckoo
- Curse of the Werewolves
- Damned
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead*
- A Daughter of Fair Verona*
- The Dead Romantics*
- Dead Silence
- Deadstream
- Direct Descendant*
- The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
- Earls Trip*
- Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
- Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales*
- Every Tom, Dick & Harry
- The Ex Hex*
- The Expectant Detectives*
- Fable for the End of the World
- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It*
- Four Found Dead
- From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi
- From Bad to Cursed*
- The Full Moon Coffee Shop*
- The Gatsby Gambit*
- Ghost Scout's Honor
- Ghost Station
- The Ghosts of Nameless Island: Vol. 1
- The Girl in Question
- Going Bicoastal*
- Hangry Hearts
- Happy Place*
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
- Havoc
- The Honeys
- The House of Last Resort
- How to Seal Your Own Fate*
- How to Survive Your Murder
- I Curse You With Joy
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
- I Need You to Read This*
- I Was a Teenage Slasher
- The Importance of Being Earnest*
- In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
- The Influencers
- Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix
- I.R.L.
- It Came from the Trees
- It's a Love/Skate Relationship*
- Julie Chan Is Dead
- Just for the Summer*
- Kill Your Darlings
- Killer House Party
- King of Ashes
- Kingdom of the Wicked
- Kiss the Girl*
- The Lake House
- Listen to Your Sister
- The Lost Story*
- Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
- Love & Olives*
- Love & War*
- Margo's Got Money Troubles
- The Meadowbrook Murders
- Moon Madness*
- Murder at Gulls Nest*
- Murder on a School Night*
- My Salty Mary
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy
- The Nigerwife
- The Night in Question*
- A Novel Love Story*
- Once Bitten, Twice Dead
- One Death at a Time*
- The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
- Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer
- Party of Two*
- People We Meet on Vacation
- The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night
- A Queen's Game
- Queen's Shadow
- The Queer Allies Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Being an Empowering LGBTQIA+ Ally
- Raining Cats and Dogs
- Rani Choudhury Must Die*
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- Rebel Robin
- Ride or Die
- Rise and Divine*
- The Rose Bargain
- Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On
- Snow White: Fair & Sinister Heart
- So Thirsty
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- The Spellshop*
- Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker
- The Starving Saints
- Such Sharp Teeth*
- The Sun Down Motel
- A Tempest of Tea
- Tender Beasts
- They Bloom at Night
- This Is Not a Game
- Tokyo Ever After*
- A Traitorous Heart
- The Treasure Hunters Club*
- Two Sides to Every Murder
- The Unfinished
- The Unmaking of June Farrow
- Voyage of the Damned
- We Kept Her in the Cellar
- Weetzie Bat*
- Whalefall
- What the River Knows
- Where Sleeping Girls Lie
- Who We Are in Real Life
- The Wild Robot*
- Witchlings
- Women Living Deliciously
- Women's Hotel*
- Worth Fighting For
- You Have a Match
- You've Awoken Her
Audiobook options:
- Absolution
- The Case of the Missing Marquess*
- The Changeling
- Dracula
- End of Watch
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
- The Grandest Game
- The Great Gatsby
- Hercule Poirot's Silent Night
- Iris Kelly Doesn't Date*
- Jane Eyre
- Lies and Weddings*
- Natural Beauty
- Never Flinch
- No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding*
- Onyx Storm
- The Perfect Couple*
- Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball
- The Secret Garden*
- The Tainted Cup
- This Ravenous Fate
- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches*
- Wuthering Heights
Ebook options:
- American Rapture
- As Good As Dead
- Atmosphere*
- Below the Grand Hotel
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop*
- Episode Thirteen
- Harley Quinn: Ravenous
- Harley Quinn: Redemption
- My Throat an Open Grave
- The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh*
- The Poppy War
- Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
- Stranger Things: Flight of Icarus
- Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets*
- That's Not My Name
- The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society*
- Witchblood #1
Graphic novel options (all of which fit the theme for me):
- Angel + Spike, Vol. 1: All the Devils Are Here
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- Batter Royale
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- Buffy '97
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow
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- Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones
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- Crumble
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- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library: The Graphic Novel
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- Gotham City: Year One
- Gotham City Sirens: Trigger Happy
- The Haunted Blizzard
- Huda F Are You?: A Graphic Novel
- Huda F Cares?
- Huda F Wants to Know?
- Lore Olympus: Volume Eight
- The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
- Occupy Avengers, Vol. 1: Taking Back Justice
- Over The Garden Wall, Vol. 1
- Over the Garden Wall Vol. 2
- Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat!, Volume 1: Hooked on a Feline
- Plain Jane and the Mermaid
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- Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel
- A Song for You & I
- Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2024-) #1
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- The Tea Dragon Society
- That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
- Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
- The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite
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- Wonder Woman, Volume 8: A Twist of Fate
- Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
Any type of romance makes me happy... And I'm trying to get back into reading...TBR:
Currently Reading:
Finished:
Finished on theme:Finished not on theme:
Currently reading:
I'll be reading 'I was born for this' by Alice Oseman💞
🌸 MY TBR 🌸➽ Top Books I want to read this month!
🌸 PROGRESS 🌸
➽ One Piece: Shokugeki no Sanji ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Volume 74: Ever at Your Side ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ One Piece, Vol. 75: Repaying the Debt ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Never Thought I'd End Up Here ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ Worth a Shot ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Go Luck Yourself ⭐⭐⭐.5
➽ The Strawberry Patch Pancake House ⭐⭐
➽ Do Me a Favor ⭐⭐
I don't think any of these books are 'happy' books but I'm happy to read them because I loved the previous books in the series (except for two books). And I love the Golden Girls.TBR:
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Celebrate the halfway point of the year by reading happy books! (Whatever is "happy" to you is fine)
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