It's like every book I touched this month was gold.
New theory: I like the kinds of books that people put on tables in summer better. You?
Scroll down for the full list but somehow I just really nailed it this month. I read so many things I loved. And, okay, one I did not love but is still on this list (HOW will I clue you into which one without alerting the search overlords and possibly leading the author to seeing that which would be AWKWARD as we are connected, I do not know…) and a couple that didn’t land but I knew it right away.
Big obvious takeaway for me: I like “summer” books. Beach reads. I mean, we knew that but—it can be last year’s summer book or beach read! Page turners, anything that sweeps you up—I want to get lost in there, people. I don’t even want to remember I HAVE a phone or a family or a country or that I’m reading at all.
(Except when I want a book that’s not hard to put down when one must.)
That seems to have meant a month of thriller and thriller-adjacent reading. A lot of these are fairly easy library gets or paperback, we love that. The one I really enjoyed that I have NOT seen all over the place has to be Assassins Anonymous. That one’s probably out on one end of the arc of my reading life—if you liked my rec of Starter Villain a while back, or Murderbot, grab this.
Deep gratitude to all who pushed The Thursday Murder Club at me and a note to those who, like me, resisted bc of the hype: JUST GO GET IT YOU WILL NOT BE SORRY. Last two books in the series are sitting here in their shiny library covers just waiting for me (as is Killers of a Certain Age).
Okay, I figured out how to tell you which one I didn’t enjoy. DM me if you figure it out and want deets, or want to discuss or argue. Meanwhile, coming next week unless I get distracted, why I loved What Kind of Paradise, which I have since finished, and you should read it.
Books Finished:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore ($$)
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera ($$ Kindle)
The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen ($$) Raved about here:
Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart ($$)
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ($$)
The Unwedding by Ally Condie (gifted)
Far and Away by Amy Poeppel ($$) Raved about here:
Books Read but unfinished:
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman ($$)
What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (gifted)
Books Acquired but not yet read: ($$=I bought it with my own hard-earned cash, 1/2$=I used my author discount, Gifted)
Everybody Writes by Ann Handley ($$ Kindle)
The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold by Ally Carter (gifted)
The Summer Guests ($$ by Tess Gerritsen)
Always here for your recs!
I’m loving it!! And I’m going to try his new series and also have “Killers” from the library right now.
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