My club did not like this book. Only one person managed to read the whole book. I wanted to like it but I found the way the author wrote the book confusing to follow what was going on.
The person that finished the book felt that the author left to many loose ends.

Although well written, I found there were too many loose ends which the author, or certainly her editor should have picked up on. Also, the three Junes in the book were not as obvious as I thought they should be. How this book won an award is something I'm still left wondering.

Each section of the book (Paul, Fenno, Fern sections as I like to call them)----were in June when they were in the present tense.

Paul was in Greece during summer months, 6 years later they are gathered after his death presumably same time of year, and Long Island they are there in June. If I had a Kindle, I'd do a word search on 'June' just to see. The Three Junes are just three views of these peoples lives (3 different years in June).


Fenno was my favorite character. I think that his section of the book is the largest, since he is the main character. He ties all the people together throughout the story of the three different Junes. He is the only character in all three sections. I agree he is a good person and very interesting.


About Mal---he represents the good things about pure true emotional love. Tony represented how love could be a bad thing without the emotional connection....not really 'love' without it. Demonstrates the two different ways someone can be loved.


Fern was an interesting intersection between Paul and Fenno, although those pieces are not tied together for us. I don't think that Fern knew this either. It was odd that the author didn't bring that full circle. I wonder if she had, would it have made a difference or would it have been awkward? It seems like it would have impacted the plot in a significant way. Possibly have brought Paul more into the last section of the book more also.


Fern was a female character and told Fenno things that she had never told anyone else, given the short time they knew each other. It is interesting Fenno's relationships with women were (his mother, Lil and Fern). He was very unguarded and down to earth with them. Something he was not able to attain with his father or brothers.

Fenno and Fern had the Tony connection. Each had been loved physically by him without any emotion. They both had feelings for him, but knew it would never progress into anything else. Due to this 'bond', it seems Fenno was able to enlighten Fern about how she is really feeling about Stavros.

I thought, the overall thrust of the book was this quote "Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved".
For me, that was what the whole book was about----loves (past, present, good and bad, in all different shapes/sizes/types).

I think the Three Junes are just observations (from three different perspectives Paul, Fenno and Fern) of all that they have loved and how they have been loved.

I think this book prompted good discussion and interesting and diverse perspectives from all of us. A good Book Club selection....

It was uplifting in that there were bad 'love' experiences but were balanced by good 'love' experiences. Life is a mix of many things.

This book was not what I expected, but...I enjoyed it. It was alittle slow to start but to me, worth the time. I eventually was pulled in to wanting to know more, wanting to see what would happen to these characters. I loved Fenno, but not at first..I questioned who he was and what he was about but I ended up just loving him. I laughed and cried. The ending kind of left me flat...but overall, I liked. Happy Reading!

I found this book hard to get into, slow moving, and with several confusing leaps between the stories' presents and pasts. I thought the beginning was especially difficult to trudge through and the end could have easily been left out. There was no clear ending wrapped up in a bow, with questions answered the way I would normally expect. The middle section was this book's redeeming quality, for me.