Hi and welcome to another monthly overview!
Another month bites the dust! Where even did it go?! I recovered from covid and an overly long family gathering (already looking forward to the ones this month… NOT 😅) and Cappuccino recovered from his accident (although he does seem to have some kind of PTSD, which, honestly, is not all bad, whatever keeps him off the street). The weather was lovely for reading outside, although Belgium is groaning under the heat as I’m writing this, and a rainy day sounds like bliss right about now.
Book-wise, June was a great month with me enjoying most of what I read. I was still reading my way through the Kindle Unlimited list I’d been adding to since my last trial period. The current one ends in a few days and I was able to read a lot! It’ll be good to cancel my subscription, though, and pick up more of my own books, cos I keep adding to Mount TBR, but little is removed from it these days 😬
Honourable mentions to Room 21, Asia: From the Urals to the Pacific, The Dead Husband Cookbook, Home Before Dark, The Staircase in the Woods and Nemesis, but these were my favourite reads of the month:
In figures June looks like this:
June
Novels: 5823 pages across 17 novels
Audiobooks: 53 hours across 7 novels
And here’s what I did in June:
What I read:
Last Liar Standing, Danielle M. Wong
The Rush, Beth Lewis
The Boy from the Woods, Harlan Coben
Room 21, Jessica Huntley
Sun Trap, Rachel Wolf
Asia: From the Urals to the Pacific, Victoria Burrows
Sunshine, Emma Ellis
The Hanging of Hettie Gale, Tess Burnett
The Dead Husband Cookbook, Danielle Valentine (review to follow)
Home Before Dark, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Floating Staircase, Ronald Malfi
Spotlight, Emma Ellis
Onze hormonen, onderschatte helden, Lieselot Theys
The Transcendent Tide, Doug Johnstone (review to follow)
A Happy Marriage, A.R. Torre
Loose Lips, Kemper Donovan
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig
What I listened to:
Serial Killer Support Group, Saratoga Schaefer
The Night Birds, Christopher Golden
You Killed Me First, John Marrs
Leave No Trace, Jo Callaghan
Nemesis, Patricia Wolf
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab
Human Remains, Jo Callaghan
Let’s have a look at the books that landed on my lap in June:
One hardcover and two paperbacks:
Six 99p deals, one eBook at a discount and three NetGalley DRCs:
I hope you had a good month and that you are safe and well! Thanks for joining me today and happy reading xxx
Glad you’re feeling better and got to read in the garden, I love doing that too! Here’s to a fab bookish July 😀
Thanks Nicki 📚💜
The wind has finally shifted and we have a cooler day here!! Glad Cappuccino has PTSD. I hope he never forgets that the road is bad, and the house, trees, fields, and everywhere else is good!! LOL!
Keep cool, Kelly!!
Thanks, let’s hope so 😂
I hope the weather will cool down soon for you! I can send some of our current cold front and lower-that-usual freezing temperatures your way if you want? Also, I can’t believe I haven’t seen that there is a third Enceladons book! I LOVED the first two, so that’s going straight to my wishlist. I hope July will treat you well! <3
Thank you, it has! We just had a couple of showers and I actually need a jumper now! No freezing temperatures for me, thank you very much, I deal with them about as well as I do with heatwaves 😂
Yes, out in August! And I’m not sure the trilogy will remain a trilogy…
Thanks lovely, you too 💜