The Books That I Read in May

 

It's a nice new month, and although the weather outside the window seems to think we have rushed into Autumn, here inside the house it's pleasantly warm without any heating on.  The wind blowing a hoolie outside makes me glad to be sat at my desk with the kettle within reach, and for once I have found some biscuits in the cupboard so there are now biscuits in the gravy tin ... don't ask.  😄

Well if you really need to know ... I had just finished all the Bisto gravy granules, washed out the tin and then realised that I didn't have another tin small enough in size to keep my little packet of biscuits nice and crisp.

Bookworm by Lucy Mangan

It's been a really slow reading month this month and I managed just two books ... yep two!!

Alan bought me Lucy's latest book 'Bookish' a while ago when we were in Wales, and lots of you told me about this earlier one.  So I ordered it from Amazon from the second hand section, and it made sense to read this one first as it's about all her childhood reading as opposed to Bookish which is about her more up to date reading.

I loved it.  

As a child I read so many of the same books as Lucy so it was nice to reminisce about Milly, Molly, Mandy, Just William, the Narnia books et al.  I lost a bit of interest in her early teenage reading as I was never one for the horse riding stories or boarding school sagas, I guess living in inner city Manchester I just couldn't relate.  But I picked up again a bit later in the book and overall I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I've kept this one.

Thea and Denise by Caroline Bond

At first I thought this was going to be a direct rip off of Thelma and Louise, and indeed for a while it seems to be heading in exactly the same way, but happily the story opens up and it's a really good read in it's own right and my plagiarism fears were quashed.

I took it with me to a few places where I was kept waiting, reading it at every opportunity and then finished it off in one huge binge read whilst accompanying Alan to the hospital.  (We were there for over 13 hours, so another book could, indeed should, have travelled with me!)   I always find that fiction books suit me well for waiting situations and this was a nice easy read. 

It would be great as a holiday read too.

And that believe it or not, was the total sum of my May reading.  😐

This has now been donated.

I admit I did not read enough books.

I will read more this month.

I have already chosen my next three reads.  😁

Sue xx

I would just like to point out, that although I provide links to Amazon for all the books that I read each month, not all my books are bought from Amazon.  If they are some of them were bought from the Used section rather than full price.  

I share the links so that you can learn more about the books that I write about for yourself, or read reviews from others that have read them.  Of course most of the books I talk about would also be available from your local library, and if you are very lucky you might even find them in charity or thrift shops.  

There are so many ways to bring books into your home if you love reading. 📚