5 Books for July 2025
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5 Books...
📚 Book club read: We're reading In the House of Me: A Path From Self-Abandonment To Self-Reclamation Through A Practice Of Embodied Consent by Mel Gentry Bosna this month in the Year of Belonging. I’m excited to see how our discussion later this month will go because we haven’t read a book like this yet...want to join us?
📚 In the middle of reading: Pride by Ibi Zoboi | Earlier this year my local book club read Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable, which was a Pride and Prejudice retelling set in Pakistan, and this month we’re reading a retelling set in Brooklyn. I enjoy reading a new take on a familiar story!
📚 Just finished: One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune | I have to confess that I haven’t liked her other books nearly as much as Every Summer After. And that’s ok, I just know that about myself now. Do you have any recs for good second chance romance novels?
📚 Seasonal read: It’s summer, so if you’re looking for something light, try out There’s Nothing Like This by Kevin Evers. It’s about the business genius of Taylor Swift. I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane to past eras, and there were also some insightful nuggets I took away!
📚 Timely recommendation: I recently heard the most beautiful song called Jesus and John Wayne and it reminded me of the book with the same title by Kristin Kobez Dumes. It’s been out for 5 years, and I didn’t read it till last year. If you haven’t read it, take this as your sign to read it. You might throw it across the room, and you’ll probably have to take some breaks (I definitely d9d—use the meditation I linked below to reset emotionally!), but it’s a worthy use of your time.
What are you reading? Have you read any of these? I'd love to hear back from you; just hit reply!
