We are on hiatus for the month of June. This replay episode originally aired June 2023.This week we celebrate all the special days of June! Want a book rec for Pride month? We have one. What about Juneteenth or Father's Day? We have you covered. And did you know it's National Audiobook Month? It's new to us as well but we love audiobooks so we give you some recommendations for that too. And we throw in one wildcard category - one of those random National Days or Months that always makes you wonder why there needs to be a month for that:)This is the last episode for Season 8. We are taking a month off for summer family travel and some rest and relaxation. We will be back the late July/ early August with all new episodes. Until then, we will air some of our favorite past episodes in case you missed them the first time around.Happy Reading!For show notes for any episode or to contact us, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.Books Mentioned in this Episode:1- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy2- The Road by Cormac McCarthy3- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy4- Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo5- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo6- The Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel7- The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel8- The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule9- Fun Home: A Famliy Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel10- Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel11- And Then the Grey Heaven by RE Katz12- Lone Women by Victor Lavalle13- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle14- Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney15- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander16- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris17- The Chosen by Chaim Potok18- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro19- The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin20- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery21- Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Willingham22- The Good One by Polly Stewart23- On Earth as it is on Television by Emily JaneShows/movies mentioned--1- No Country For Old Men ( 2007)2- My Octopus Teacher (Netflix, 2020)Articles Mentioned:1- Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian writer who was voice of African women, dies at 812- The convoluted world of best-seller lists, explained