Here we go again…..another month wrapped up.
June saw more books read but the quality take a little slide. I read 8 books in total – a mix of audio, kindle and paperback. I tried to read more of a variety of books this month but as usual romance is my most read genre.
Books read:
- Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke – ★★★★
- Cash by Jessica Peterson – ★★★★
- No Matter What by Cara Bastone – ★★★★★
- Fever Dream by Elsie Silver – ★★★★
- Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan – ★★★★
- How To write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh – ★★★
- The Maid by Nita Prose – ★★★★
- Next of Kin by Hannah Bonam-Young – ★★★★
Pages read: 2978 pages
Most read genre: Romance, romance, romance….
Most read format: 5 out of 8 books were audiobooks
Favourite read: No Matter What by Cara Bastone
The Blurb: Sometimes love sends you back to the drawing board.
After a traumatic accident threatens the foundations of their happy marriage, a couple tries to rebuild and find their way back to each other—and themselves—in this tender, slow-burn romance.
Roz and Vin can’t look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It’s been a year since they survived a life-altering accident, and their marriage hasn’t been the same. But Roz has held out hope that they can fix things, until she discovers Vin has signed a new lease. So she does what any soon-to-be-divorced Manhattanite would do: sign up for a figure-drawing class.
Between Roz’s determined attempts to improve her artistic skills and her adventures with her best friend, Raffi, she can almost ignore Vin’s impending move-out date and his footsteps in their previously unoccupied guest room. But it would all be a lot easier if Vin wasn’t Raffi’s older brother, and if she didn’t still find him incredibly, debilitatingly attractive and kind.
So kind, in fact, that Vin offers to let Roz draw him. What is she supposed to say? It’s probably better than her original plan of finding some random male model online, and she needs all the practice she can get. Plus, that’s sure to make a separation easier, right? Focus on every detail of your estranged spouse’s body while drawing him in the nude? But after the year they’ve spent avoiding each other, it feels good to see and be seen by one another again.
As Roz works to capture the wholeness of the person she fell in love with, will they both be able to draw upon the feelings they buried deep inside to finally heal together?
Honourable mention: Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
The blurb: If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?
Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.
So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself – can she really start now?
Goodreads Reading Challenge: 45/100 books
Audiobook Challenge: 31/50 audiobooks
What was your favourite read this month?
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