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I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,

and today I'm recapping the books I read in June.

Guys, I do not know what is happening to me.

I read, if you count the Babysitters Club books, I read 15 if you count the babysitters club books. I read 15 I think books in June

14 in May this is unheard of this is not usual for me. This is not typical

I am exorbitantly behind in posting reviews on

Instagram for this very reason. I also went through a reading, Olivia and I

kept referring to it as a reading slump in June, but really what it was was I just wasn't even in the mood to read.

But I guess I read anyway, because somehow when I sat down to make notes for this episode,

I had a list of 14 or 15 books. when I sat down to make notes for this episode,

I had a list of 14 or 15 books.

So I truly, I can tell you exactly where the kind of slump came

and we'll talk about that, but wow,

I read a lot more than I thought I did and so we're just going to jump right in lest I waste any time

so the first book I finished in June was The Next Great Jane this is a children's chapter book

recommended to me by Olivia it It's by author K.

El Gowing. I loved this book. It takes place in Maine. So I mentioned this book in our

last podcast episode because it immediately made me

want to schedule a vacation. I'm thinking 2021, maybe 2022 for Maine. It is set in Maine. It is about a young girl named Jane who lives there with her dad.

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