What I’ve Been Reading (June 2023)

Pictured above are my favourite reads from the past three months. Not all of them got five stars on my personal scale—which is so hard to define, really, I’m not sure why I bother rating things at all. It does make for an easy, at-a-glance reference system, though.

What these books all have in common is how utterly absorbing I found each one. How they drew me in and didn’t let me go until the last page. How I kept thinking about them even after I was done.

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Mom’s Pantry

Early in May, we collected my daughter after her third year of college. After we unpacked the car, my daughter proceeded to the pantry where she hung off the door like she always does to peruse the shelves. She said, “I missed your pantry,” and this story popped into my head. I wrote it for a blog I share with friends but loved it so much, I wanted to post it to my blog too.

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Midlife Crisis

It’s taken me a while to get around to this one—but I’m glad it did because the events of the past twelve months have subtly reshaped my thoughts on this, another favorite trope: the midlife crisis.

If you’re at all familiar with my books, you’ll know that I love writing about middle age—about characters who have already lived, loved, and lost… and are ready to do it all again (maybe with less loss this time around). In fact, that’s pretty much the central theme of This Time Forever where the romantic plots are concerned, but also in regards to the characters’ lives. Without exception, they’re all stuck in place and more than ready for something new.

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