April Reading Round Up

Total books read this month:  13

Book Ratings

The Cruellest Month.   4.25 stars (paperback from my shelf)
Marry in Secret.  3.75 stars (from my Kindle)
The Lions of Fifth Avenue.  3.75 stars (audio)
Arabella. 4.25 stars (audio)
The Girl from Donegal.  3.5 stars (paperback from my shelf)
Paper Cuts.  4.25 stars. (review book)
The Happy Ever After. 4.75 stars. (audio)
A Hard Day for a Hangover. 5 stars (local library)
Fault Lines.  4 stars  (local library)
Accidentally on Purpose 3.75 stars. (audio)
Get a Life Chloe Brown 3. 45 stars. (local library)
The Next Best Thing 3 stars.  (local library)
Quilt or Innocence. 2.75 stars (paperback from my bookshelf)

Book Settings:

Canada.
England
New York
North Carolina
Donegal/Canada/Bahamas
LA/Minnesota
New Mexico
Japan
San Francisco

New to me authors:

Fiona Davis
Emily Itami
Talia Hibbert
Elizabeth Craig.

Top Book for April

Looking forward to reading in May

Well listening actually. I have it pre-ordered at Autdible.  The final book in The Seven Sisters.

Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date.

Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels or anything in those genres – join them.

Hope you are all recovering from celebrating the Easter season, or whatever one you do at this time of the year. I went to church yesterday – it was packed. Saturday and Sunday were beautifully sunny days, today grey and rainy.

More books finished this week, one being audio so it was an ongoing one for a few weeks.

What I read last week:

What I am reading now:

I am listening to…

And my slow and steady read is Fault Lines by Emily Itami.

Up next:

The next book in The Secret, Book and Scone society. A review book.

 Last Week’s Posts

March Reading Round Up

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date.

Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels or anything in those genres – join them.

As you can see I didn’t get a lot of reading done this week. I did read every day but not enough to finish more than one.

We had a wee taste of actual winter this week and I actually lit a fire one day it was so cold. But back to Autumn weather after that. We also ended daylight saving this weekend, so Sunday I was feeling a little dazed. We. might get back an hour in the  morning supposedly but then I wake early and that’s that! I guess it takes a few days to find our feet again.

Hope you are all well and not in the path of bad weather patterns. If you celebrate Easter may it be joy filled.

What I read last week:

A middle grade book I’ve always wanted to read. Really a kind of time travel book for a little boy who finds a wonderful garden at night that is not there during the day.

What I am reading now:

And still listening to The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis. And slow read is going to be Fault Lines by Emily Itami.

Up next:

 

Last Week’s Posts

None.

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November Reading Wrap.

Total books read this month: 10

New to me authors:

Matt Haig
Janice Hadlow
Danielle Hawkins
Lauren K Denton

Top Book for November

Hard choice to make, didn’t really have a top read this month. They all almost rated 4 stars. One 3 star. However the one I was most taken by was The Other Bennet Sister, mainly because it surprised me at how much I enjoyed it.

Looking forward to reading in December

Already started reading Archangel’s Sun and I don’t have my sight set on anything else in particular.

Main Reading Goals for November were.

• read three books from my actual TBR shelf.   I read  one!
• read one lurking book from my Kindle TBR Yes – Almost Just Friends.
• keep up with the library reserves that land my way Pretty much, a few I put back after deciding after looking a bit more at them I didn’t want to read them just now.
• read some of the annotated Pride and Prejudice.  I read a very small amount of it.
• reread a book ! Yes, by accident because I’d forgotten I’d read it but it still counts because I realised and kept going.

Main Reading Goals for December

• See if I can start off a cozy mystery series that I’ll keep reading. I have a first book to pick up from the library.
• read on actual book from my TBR print shelf and one from my Kindle
• think about some reading goals for 2021 and write them down.

Incoming Books for November

Purchased

Library Books

From NetGalley

Audio Books

Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.

Spring in Books

So while I know many of you are beginning to think Fall and Autumn, Down Under we are eyeing up Spring. So I thought today I’d look at books with Spring in their title that I’ve read.

Spring Fever by Mary Kay Andrews was a great listen. Very entertaining and Kathleen McInerney made it even more so. I loved her voices for the characters, especially Sophie.

This is the story of Annajane who has been married to Mason and then divorced, but she continued to work for the company. She also attends the wedding of Mason to his new love Celia. And it is at that point the fun begins. Enter Sophie, Mason’s daughter, a five year old and completely adorable. She causes life to become interesting.

 

When a favorite customer on his delivery route needs a favor, Tanner Richards agrees to help without a second thought. The last thing he expects is to face off against the man’s spitfire granddaughter. I enjoyed this one but have forgotten it, I always think I can go back and read such books and enjoy them all over again!

And what is more appropriate. Because that’s what we are getting now, just the very first kiss of Spring. This is #14 in Emily March’s Eternity Springs series.  My review for Eternity Springs.

I note that I didn’t want it to end!

On the eve of the London Season, Jane Chance is about to make her entrance into high society. And after a childhood riddled with poverty and hardship, Jane intends to make a good, safe, sensible marriage. All goes according to plan until a dark, dangerous vagabond helps her rescue a dog. This is #3 in the Chance sisters series by Anne Gracie. I really enjoy her historical romance books.

So some of you may have read The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary. This book is another flat share book but set in Cologne in Germany and is about a motley group of older characters. My review

 

This visit back into books I’ve read with Spring in the title are making want to go back and reread them all because…. that’s right I am rather hazy about them all, apart from knowing they were all reads I totally enjoyed!

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