July Reading Month in Review

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Total books read this month:  12

Bayou Midnight  Emilie Richards 4 stars
Summer Wives  Beatriz Williams 4 stars
Dreams of Falling Karen White 5 stars
Beach Blues Joanne DeMaio 4 stars
As You Wish Jude Deveraux 4 stars
The Rogue Not Taken Sarah MacLean 3.5 stars
One Night Wife Ainslie Paton  4 stars
The Choice   Edith Eva Eger 5 stars
The Patchwork Bride  Sandra Dallas 4 stars
The House on Saltwater Point Colleen Coble   3 stars
Homicide in Hardcover   Kate Carlisle   4 stars
Night Magic   Emilie Richards   4.5 stars

Book Formats:

Paperback	Five
E-Book	Five
Audiobook	Two
From Library	Three
Review Books	Five
Borrowed	One

Genres Read

Contemporary Romance	One
Romantic Suspense	Three
Cozy mystery	One
Women's Fiction	Five
Historical Romance	One
Memoir	One

New to me authors.
Colleen Coble
Kate Carlisle
Sandra Dallas
Edith Eger

Top Books for July

Two stand out in July. One a memoir of an amazing life and an inspiring person.

And the most riveting fiction for this month... I borrowed this one from the library. I just might have to buy it when it comes out in paperback.

Looking Forward to Reading in August...

I am looking forward to reading some books I have stockpiled recently! All now my own books. No review books for August. I carefully managed that. See a few of the purchased ones below. Some of them will be read for sure!

Incoming Books.

Paperback Books Purchased:

E Books Purchased:
This book was borrowed - hardcover. However I wanted my own copy so bought a Kindle copy which was so very reasonably priced.

Library Books: 

Books coming from NetGalley 

Audio Books 
Credits from Audible

As some of you may know I am moving to Wordpress.com so next month this link up will be at my new address! I will leave a link here on this blog so that you can find me. Do keep joining up. Next month I intend doing a giveaway for those who link to this post, not because I have a new address but it is my birthday month and I am celebrating with... books!

So how did your reading month pan out?

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June Reading Month in Review

                                  

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Total books read this month: 12
Ocean Light    Nalini Singh
Rainy Day Friends   Jill Shalvis
Promise Me Dad   Joe Biden    Audiobook 5 stars.
Wicked and the Wallflower  Sarah MacLean
The Bookshop of Yesterdays.  Amy Meyerson
Beard Science   Penny Reid   Audiobook 4 stars
Happiness For Beginners   Katherine Center
The Lost For Words Bookshop Stephanie Butland
The Cottages on Silver Beach  RaeAnne Thayne
Heaven Adjacent  Catherine Ryan Hyde
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe    Jenny Colgan    5 stars  audiobook
The Art of Inheriting Secrets   Barbara O'Neal

Book Formats:

Paperback	Two
E-Book&	Seven
Audiobook	Three
From TBR shelf	One
Review Books	Seven
From my New Shelf	One

Genres Read

Contemporary Romance	Three
Crime/Suspense	Zero
Fantasy	One
Women's Fiction	Five
Historical Fiction	One
Memoir	One
Fiction	One

New to me authors.
Stephanie Butland
Sarah MacLean
Amy Meyerson
Penny Reid
Katherine Center
Joe Biden

Top Book for June

Book Looking Forward to Reading in July...
I am looking forward to less review books this month and reading more of my own books, many of which you see the book covers below. Probably one I am most looking forward to is...

Incoming Books.

Paperback Books Purchased:

E Books Purchased:
None.  

Library Books: 

Books coming from NetGalley or Edelweiss

Audio Books 

So how did your reading month pan out?

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May Reading Month in Review

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Total books read this month:  8

The Secret to Southern Charm   Kristy Woodson Harvey   5 stars
The High Tide Club   Mary Kay Andrews    4 stars
You Belong to Me   Karen Rose    4 stars
Lighthouse Beach  Shelley Noble   4 stars
All Night With the Cowboy   Soraya Lane    3.5 stars
The Summer I Met Jack  Michelle Gable 3 stars
Someone to Love   Mary Balogh  4 stars
Herons Landing JoAnn Ross    4 stars

Book Formats:

Paperback	One
E-Book	Six
Audiobook	One
From TBR shelf	One
Review Books	Six
From my New Shelf	Zero

Genres Read

Contemporary Romance	Two
Crime/Suspense	One
Fantasy	Zero
Women's Fiction	Three
Historical Fiction	Two
Memoir	Zero

New to me authors.
Michelle Gable
JoAnn Ross

Top Book for May

As always Kristy Woodson Harvey spins a very good story and I love the southern flavour. The narration of the book by Janet Metzger and Candace Thaxton was perfect to this listener.

Least liked book...

I found this a little one sided and to be honest a bit boring in parts.

Looking Forward to in June...

I may not reach on actually reading this in June but the anticipation of it arriving in the post is book pleasure enough!

Incoming Books

Library Books: 

I hope I'll get to read this before I have to return it!

Books coming from NetGalley or Edelweiss

Audio Books 

So how did your reading month pan out?

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Reading Month in Review

Welcome in, do join me by sharing your link to your look back at this month. I'm looking forward to visiting and seeing what everyone has been up to.  The link will be open for you to share your post whenever you post over the next few days.  Do visit each others' posts.

Total books read this month:  8
Which must be my lowest total ever!

A Soft Place to Fall   Cindy Woodsmall   3 stars
Same Beach Next Year   Dorothea Benton Frank  4 stars
The Endless Beach   Jenny Colgan  5 stars (audio version)
Taste of Air Gail Cleare  4 stars
The Sunshine Sisters Jane Green 4 stars
This Could Change Everything   Jill Mansell 4.5 stars
The Storied Life of A J Fikery  Gabrielle Zevin  4 stars
Two Steps Forward  Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist    4.5 stars

Book Formats:

Paperback	Four
E-Book	Three
Audiobook	One
From TBR shelf	Two
Review Books	Five
From my New Shelf	Zero

Genres Read

Contemporary Romance	Two
Crime/Suspense	Zero
Fantasy	Zero
Women's Fiction	Three
Historical Fiction	Zero
Memoir	Zero
Fiction	Two

New to me authors.
Gail Cleare
Cindy Woodsmall
Gabrielle Zevin

Top Book for April

I think a well narrated audio always tips a book up just that much more and that's what happened with this one. This is the follow up book to The Cafe by the Sea. Now I am hoping for a third!

Looking Forward to reading in May...

This is a series that Emilie Richards is publishing herself. This is an updated version of an earlier one. The first two are being republished after being updated and given totally new gorgeous covers. The third one is a totally new book. I haven't read them previously and am really ready to read.

Incoming Books.

Paperback Books Purchased:

  

E Books Purchased:
I saw a book by Mary Campisi on another blog and I realised I had bought the first one in this series... in ahem 2011 and its not read yet! I think it might have been free. But... this year for sure and on the hope of a good book I bought Book 2. If its good it is a long series!

  

I heard about this book on the Oprah Sunday Soul podcast, Oprah interviewed Timothy Shriver so forgetting I had put in a request at the library one evening I bought it. Then the very next day the library informed me it was waiting for me!! I'll read the library version but if I don't finish it in the time given then I have back up.

Library Books: 
Hope to fit it in! It is the first in her Baltimore books and as her most recent is a Baltimore addition I need to read the previous ones because for sure they'll be linked. It's my dabble into crime and suspense! Just a little taste.  And of course the Timothy Shriver book fits in here as well as I have the library copy as well!

Books coming from NetGalley or Edelweiss

Well this shelf looks very healthy! Looks like down the track it will give me time to read some TBR books! I've already read and written my review for the Jill Mansell  and Graeme Simsion books.

 

Audio Books 

So how did your reading month pan out?

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