June: A Novel

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Three decades on, when Tara develops dementia, the adult Antara takes her into her home. It’s Antara’s internal conflict that forms the novel’s central theme: how do you take care of a mother who once failed to take care of you? Antara examines the question with a self-inspection so unflinching that it makes you catch your breath. “I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure,” she admits coolly. Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew Kate Teltscher Rich biography of Kew Garden's Palm House Publishers love to do big June releases just in time for summer. I have to say, Malibu Rising won’t disappoint!

June: A Novel: Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda: 9780553447705

Also, I need to fill my book of the month Debut Darling and Genre badges. Malibu Rising is Historical Fiction. The 80s is Historical Fiction. That makes me Ancient History, lol. I am missing Mystery, Thriller & Romance. 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. Tara is a restless and discontented young woman in 1980s India, who becomes so enthralled by a guru at a local ashram that she neglects her baby and abandons her marriage. She is absent and unrepentant, thoughtless of her daughter Antara, who later dispassionately describes how she “would disappear every day, dripping with milk, leaving me unfed”. Out of her Depth: a reunited lovers, hot holiday contemporary romance (Millionaires and Makeovers Book 2)Painted battleship grey, the Palm House survived the bombing of London during the second world war. Incredibly, it was almost demolished in the 1950s due to its poor state of repair. In the 1980s it was restored after being dismantled like “an immense Meccano kit”. But the humidity means that a further restoration is due. In this age of climate crisis it is needed more than ever to teach new generations about the importance of rainforests and endangered palms.

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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. Leave the World Behind was written before the coronavirus crisis and yet it taps brilliantly into the feeling of generalised panic that has attached itself to the virus and seems to mingle fears about the climate, inequality, racism and our over-reliance on technology. As the reader moves through the book, a new voice interjects, an omniscient narrator who begins to allow us gradual access to the terrifying events taking place across America.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. She doesn't know why, nor do the movie star's daughters, one of whom is a very popular movie star herself. Thus the book takes on two parallel tales, that of the modern day Cassie and a tale of the past, June's story. As the basis of an identity narrative for the 21st century, I found this utterly compelling. I couldn’t put the book down, and at times I laughed out loud. I also cried. 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. That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.”

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When I did come to the end I could not help but have tears in my eyes. There were so many things that happened, so many revelations, secrets, murder... the list goes on and it made for a perfect story. But this is my opinion, you need to read it for yourself. And I leave you with one extra excerpt of the dream people.... This is my first novel by this author. This story takes place in dual time frames. I liked the story line. It also had a couple of twists that had me saying, "Very nice." I always like it when I can be surprised. The house as a character was a little weird, but it was a minor role and it was basically used to help move the story forward. An old historic mansion estate, a small rural Ohio Midwestern town, memories, dreams, scandal, ---and a granddaughter some sixty years later, seeking answers in reference to her family’s past. What better month to read a novel titled June? It's the first real month of summer, and that typically means easy, often mindless beach reading. All that's required is a good story to keep readers engrossed. Mysteries often fit the bill perfectly.Oh my goodness, I feel like may is a HUGE month for books I’m interested in. Like nearly everyone I cannot wait for Malibu Rising. Also looking forward to The Maidens, though your review makes me pause. Also interested in Somebody’s Daughter, One Last Stop (I adored red white and royal blue) and 100 Years of Lennon and Margot. Plus I think The Plot also comes out this month, though not on your list. Holy cow! Barnes is as attentive to what he can’t know as what he can. Highlighting the limitations of fact and empathy, his book flirts occasionally with the tone of his novel Flaubert’s Parrot, foregrounding the writer’s present and the difficulties of accessing the past, feeling the way to where truth might lie.

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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.” In the months after the US declares war on Iraq, an American Muslim teenage girl and her family must navigate identity, friendship, love, and heartache. Shadi has enough going on to have to deal with bigotry, too. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has disappeared. She tries to keep it all inside, but when her heart is also broken, she finally explodes. In her afterword to a new edition of Bette Howland’s 1978 story collection, Blue in Chicago, Honor Moore writes of “the exhausting formulaic epithet” that is “a lost woman writer”. I know what she means. All my life, “lost” women writers have suddenly reappeared, brought down from the attics where they languished, yellowing quietly. When I was young, I found this exciting: the green spines of my Virago Classics transmitted to me nothing but energy and pride. But with every year that passes, the idea of the lost woman grows more wearying. It’s not only that there are so many. The gap between disappearance and re-emergence is shrinking, something that suggests, at best, a certain collective carelessness on our part and, at worst, that the patriarchy is still snoring quietly away in its favourite library chair. Soon she begins having dreams of earlier days in this house. A house with a past. Did she really ever know June, her grandmother? Houses don’t always dream. In fact, most don’t. But once again, Two Oaks was dreaming of the girls—the one called June, who looked like a woman, and the one called Lindie, who looked like a boy. This funny and plangent book is shot through with an aching awareness that though our individual existence is a “litany of small tragedies”, these tragedies are life-sized to us. It’s difficult to think of any other novelist working now who writes about both youth and middle age with such sympathy, and without condescending to either.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. Julian Barnes saw Sargent’s portrait of Pozzi when it was on loan to the National Portrait Gallery in 2015. His initial curiosity led eventually to this enjoyably obsessive study of Pozzi, in which the doctor comes to life among a vivid circle of artists and libertines, including the irrepressible aesthete Count Robert de Montesquiou, (known by his friend Marcel Proust as “the professor of beauty”), his sometime enemy the wolfish scandal-monger, writer and duellist Jean Lorrain, and a revolving cast of friends and sparring partners including the free-loving Bernhardt and Oscar Wilde, Sargent and James MacNeill Whistler.