5 Books for June 2026
5 Books...
📚 Book club read: For June, we are reading The Break by katherena vermette. I haven’t read this previously, but I chose it because it insists that women's bodies, their stories, and their inherited wounds are worth bearing witness to. Vermette traces trauma across generations of Indigenous women in Winnipeg's North End. For those of us asking what faithful dissidence looks like in practice, this book is a reminder that it starts with refusing to look away.My book club has rolling registration, so feel free to jump in any time by becoming a paid subscriber here!
📚 In the middle of reading: Wild Dark Shore Novel by Charlotte McConaghy | This is for my in person book club and I think I might be broken because I’m about a third of the way through and I’m not into it! I’m sure it’s just me because this book is WILDLY popular. Have you read it? Curious what you think.
📚 Just finished: We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter's Reckoning with American Christianity by Kristin T. Lee | This book could be sisters with mine. I loved the rawness and personal reckoning alongside the very practical advice that the way the Asian American experience can form the church in positive ways. And I got a few recs for the next several books I want to read.
📚 Seasonal read: Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan | I’m a sucker for Annabel and have been saving this one to read on vacation. I can’t wait.
📚 Timely recommendation: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke | I had to! Haha, this book has ALL THE BUZZ and very polarizing opinions. I read an early copy a few months back and really enjoyed it! My main criticism was that the way the main character talked about her religion in her internal monologue wasn’t convincing to me. The tradwife women that I know personally may be faking a lot of aspects of their daily life, but they are absolutely not faking their religious conviction. For this reason, that aspect of the book fell flat. Other than that, I thought it was a fun read; I was riveted and ate it up FAST over a weekend, because I really wanted to know the twist.
What are you reading? Have you read any of these? I'd love to hear back from you; just hit reply!
