Current Newsletter: Read These Next! June Books

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Kimberly Todd, Square Books in Oxford,
•  Suzanne Lucey, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Kayla Saxon, M. Judson Booksellers in Greenville, South Carolina
• Laura Taylor, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Florida
• Leah Fallon, Birch Tree Bookstore in Leesburg, Virginia
• Bianca Eckhoff, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Mandy Harris, Angel Wings Bookstore in Stem, North Carolina
• Barb Rascon, Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina
• Jodi Laidlaw, Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Sarai Rivera, Spellbound Bookstore in Sanford, Florida
• Kelli Dynia, Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda, Florida
• Meghan Haile, The Lynx in Gainesville, Florida
• Sam Miller, Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky
• Jennifer Jones, Bookmiser in Marietta, Georgia
• Morgan DePerno, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Rae Ann Parker, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee
• Rayna Nielsen, Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana

Book Buzz Feature: The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
I like my stories to be immersive. I am a visual person when writing and reading. So to me, it’s all part of the characterization: the way that they wear clothes, what the clothes look like, what they look like. I also want it to be a lived-in world. So let’s talk about getting dirty. Let’s talk about taking baths. Let’s think about chapped lips. When I watch particularly fantasy content, I almost look for these things because it is a layer of grittiness that I like, a texture in a story, that I feel is real. The Knight and the Moth was really fun, like gossamer versus armor. You can look into themes of these things too and apply them to the story, or you can decide to read them very literally.

― Rachel Gillig, Interview, Harper’s Bazaar

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
A beautiful book that made my heart ache in the best ways. Another masterpiece from Applegate that teaches us a little about ourselves while weaving a tree and the community where it lives.
― by Rayna Nielsen, Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana

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