I’m a bit late posting my monthly wrap up as I’ve had a few days camping in Yorkshire. The weather was wonderful – even with Saturday’s thunderstorm (I’ll admit, I love a good storm, wherever I am!) and it was so nice to get away from everything for a few days with time to read, relax, and recuperate. It was very much needed!
June was quite an erratic month, both from a blogging and a reading perspective. I hit something of a slump on both fronts and felt a distinct lack of motivation for reading, writing reviews, and blogging generally. I think I’ve recovered now, but I’m still taking it relatively steady. Of course, this has meant a slow start to 20 books of summer. I’m still confident of reading 20 books, but reviewing them all in time might be more of a challenge now… 😬
Books Read and Reviewed
- Read in May, reviewed in June:
- The Edge by James Smythe
- Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters by Jane Ions
- Civilisations by Laurent Binet
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Whole Truth by Cara Hunter
- Read in June:
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- All Her Fault by Andrea Mara
- Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime by Val McDermid
- The Black Dress by Deborah Moggach
- Safe House by Jo Jakeman
- The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas
Favourite Reads This Month
20 Books of Summer
I’ve read 6 of my 20 books of summer, and some of them even appeared on my original list! I’ve only managed to review 4 of them so far, however…
Incoming!
Just one book for review this month:
And the books I bought / acquired, in the case of If Looks Could Kill, which I won in a giveaway on Twitter:
TBR Watch
Not great but could have been worse given this month’s reading slump:
- Books out* = 6 read + 1 DNF = 7
- Books in = 1 ARC + 8 purchases = 9
- Equals an increase of 2 in my TBR
*I can’t remember the last time I read so few books in a month – I’m normally in double figures.
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Glad you had a good time camping Jo, Yorkshire is such a beautiful place! xx
It was fab, and exactly what was needed. And Yorkshire is lovely ♥
True Crime Story seems to be popping up everywhere these last few weeks.
Indeed – I do feel as though I’ve jumped on the bandwagon with this one. But, all the reviews I’ve seen have been positive, and I’m intrigued by it…
And today I saw yet another person about to begin reading this. Am feeling left out now 🙂