June: A Novel

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As I have said, the house is falling down around Cassie. She has overdue bills coming in that she pays no attention to and phone calls she never answers. She has no family, as her parents died when she was 8 and her grandmother raised her. There are things with her grandmother that have her on this downward spiral as well. Okjökull glacier was the first of Iceland’s glaciers to lose its official status as a glacier. What was once a 50-square-kilometre ice cap is now just one square kilometre of dead ice. In 2019, the Icelandic writer and filmmaker Magnason was asked to write the text for a memorial to Okjökull: “I wondered at the absurdity of the task. How do you say goodbye to a glacier?” From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. Everyone is hiding something and everyone is morally compromised, from the retired couple whose solicitude masks deep resentment on both sides to the child who torments a Glaswegian girl with a foreign-sounding name: “You’re supposed to have left, you know, people like you, did you not get the message?”

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In the present we meet Cassandra Danvers, a photographer who has just returned to her small hometown following a traumatic break-up in New York. Also, she has recently suffered the loss of her beloved grandmother June, who raised her following the deaths of her parents when she was just a child. Cassie is in denial about just about everything in her life. Depressed and grieving, she has squirreled herself away in “Two Oaks” the old mansion left to her by her grandmother. The house is in poor repair with leaks, critters, and many layers of grime. Cassie lives in this three story house by herself relishing her self-inflicted solitude. She seldom leaves and neglects her surroundings including the mail which is piling up inside the door. I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz A Belgian feminist classic I would like to thank Blogging For Books for a print copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.*

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Breasts and Eggs is Kawakami’s first full-length novel to reach English-language readers. Section one is compact and ferocious. It moves in a tightening circle as Natsuko’s sister, Makiko, an ageing hostess, makes a visit to Tokyo: “I’ve been thinking about getting breast implants.” She arrives with Midoriko, her 12-year-old daughter, who refuses to speak. All three are alarmed by their lives and bodies. For Midoriko, hatred of her changing body threatens to become hatred of her mother, the source of her life and symbol of the intolerable condition of being female. Suspicion of exercise is entirely natural, as the evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman points out in this entertaining and informative book. When interviewed, modern hunter-gatherer peoples are mystified as to why westerners should be obsessed with running long distances and lifting heavy weights when they don’t have to. The difference, of course, is that we don’t automatically get enough physical activity in an ordinary day – but learning from modern hunter-gatherers, along with facts about the evolution of the human skeleton, can give us some clues as to how to do so in a healthier and perhaps even fun way. This has been a busy morning for me, perusing all the June releases!!!!! When really, I probably should have been reading or walking (between breaks in the rain). Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

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I enjoyed reading about the author’s personal connection, inspiration, and research behind the novel--personally, a lover of preservation and historic properties. Highly recommend June as well as Bittersweet! I am trying to think of any flaws, but I can't. I guessed at a few of the plot twists, but only narrowly before they happened, and it certainly didn't ruin my enjoyment of the story whatsoever. Cassie can be a frustrating character at times (read your mail, darn-it), but it's only because she's so well-created. Overall, this is really a beautiful, suspenseful book that brings you into its world. I highly recommend it. 4.5 stars.Just in time for summer comes a touching novel perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart or A Man Called Ove. When Lenni, a dying 17-year-old girl, meets Margot, an 83-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery, at the art room of a Glasgow hospital, an unlikely friendship blooms. Together, they decide to make 100 paintings to celebrate the 100 years they have lived between them. Cronin’s debut novel is heartwarming and sweet, playing on your emotions as it weaves between grief and joy, loss and love, and all the things that make up a life. how its told in away that you get both Cassie's story which takes place's in 2015 as well as her Grandmother June's story which take's place doing the nineteen fifties

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Like so much British writing on Germany, Kampfner’s fine Why the Germans Do It Better is also a book about Britain. We need to see, in effect, post-Brexit Britain in a German mirror, not in a fantasy global one. This mirror does not flatter: Kampfner sees a Britain “mired in monolingual mediocrity, its reference points extending to the US and not much further”. It borrows and it shops, and lives in a nostalgic dreamworld. The author's writing style is beautiful. There were so many details about the book that were just perfect to me. The different things going on with the house. How the house seemed to have a mind of it's own. Even when she wrote about Cassie taking pictures (she's an artist) and how she would capture different things. I could picture each thing in my mind. I really loved the picture taking parts because I love the kind of pictures Cassie takes.But in a postscript written last year, he draws hope from Iceland’s success in confronting the challenge of Covid-19: “the crisis has shown us the importance of understanding science and applying it to future realities.” There might still be time to save the glaciers. Cassandra (Cassie) Danvers, Granddaughter-(now an orphan) a twenty-five-year old struggling artist and photographer, is going through a quarter-life crisis. Leaving New York, she has moved to an old family estate, she has inherited from her late grandmother, June. Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.”