What a manic month July has been! Coming at you a few days late is my wrap up post, I worked nights this week so I was basically dead to the blogosphere, but I come with good news: only one more day (Monday) to go and then my clinical placement is finished and I can bask in six full weeks of nothing until uni resumes towards the end of September – when I embark on my final year of my Mental Health Nursing course.
Anyway, let’s get back to the bookish, I read 14 books last month, which I’m happy with. I always tend to wish I read more and there were so many books I wanted to read but just didn’t have the time to. But I’ve got some exciting planned reads ahead of me this month, namely my buddy with Beth @ bibliobeth – we buddy read a book every month, and so far all our selections have turned out to be five stars reads for both of us, so let’s hope that continues. Also, this month, I’m finally tackling The Stand by Stephen King in a five week readalong on Instagram. But before all that, let’s wrap up July….
The standout 5 star books of the month were:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Patient Fury by Sarah Ward
Read, and recommended, this month:
Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan
Gone to Ground by Rachel Amphlett
Dortmund Hibernate by CJ Sutton
Pretty Ugly Lies by Pamela Crane
Believe Me by JP Delaney
Toxic by Jacqui Rose
Do No Harm by L V Hay
In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward
A Deadly Thaw by Sarah Ward
Read this month, but weren’t for me:
Clean by Juno Dawson
Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Other bookish posts this month:
24in48 Readathon Wrap Up, 2018
Blog Tour | Spotlight & Giveaway: Some They Lie by @MarissaFarrar
Book Box Unboxing: ‘Journeys’ Summer Reading Box
Criminally Good Book Club:
Looking for an online book club? Come and read some criminally good books with us over on Instagram – @criminallygoodbookclub. For August, we’re ‘going indie’ – independently published by Urbane Publications:
Imperfection by Ray Clark
Imperfection is a new crime series featuring D.I. Stewart Gardener and D. S. Sean Reilly, and set in the West Yorkshire city of Leeds. A haunting message scrawled on the dressing room wall of a theatre: the scene of a murder. It had been written using the blood from the victim, previously drained in a separate location. At the autopsy, D.I. Gardener and D.S. Reilly are shown a riddle carved into the chest of the corpse, informing them there would be more. Their efforts to find out why are continually blocked by a wall of contradiction, with little in the way of evidence to support their cause. Steered back to the scene of the crime and a disused prop room, Gardener and his trusted sergeant find another puzzle. The murderer, it seems, is playing games. It soon becomes clear to Gardener and Reilly that to find the killer they need to solve the clues, and to do that, they must tunnel their way into the past, where the streets were paved with gold, and to a man who had terrified people before either of them had even been born…
And that’s a wrap, folks!
What were your reading highlights of last month?
Keeper of Pages 
14 books! Good on you 😁. I can only seem to manage about 8 a month atm. Great reading list, will be adding some to my TBR.
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Thanks! I didn’t think I’d manage that much but I always maintains its better to enjoy what you’re reading rather than how much you read 😊 quality over quantity, as they say!
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Six weeks off! What on earth will you be doing with all that spare time?! 😂
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I have no idea at all 🤷♀️😂
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That’s sooooooooo many books ♥♥♥♥📖📖📖📖
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lol, I spend all my free time reading 😊
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Fantastic! Hope you have a lovely 6 week break!
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Thank you 😊
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Kudos to you, Janel! You accomplished so much this month while also being busy at work! I hope you enjoy every bit of your days before classes start. And what wonderful reads and recommendations! I’m taking note. Happy six weeks off!
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Thank you Jennifer ❤️
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I hope you enjoy The Stand. I read the uncut version @1440 pages and was sad to see it end 😦
Manic month and you managed to read 14 books? *genuflecting as I exit the room* 😉
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I’m reading the uncut version too, I’m about a fifth of the way through and loving it!
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Great month! I loved The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo!
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Oh wasn’t Evelyn such a wonderful character, and the book so engaging 😃
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I can’t wait to read The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo now! That and the Kay Hunter book five and six… I’m still a bit behind, but almost there! 😉 Looks like you had a great July. I hope you are having a wonderful August!
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I’m sure you’ll love Evelyn Hugo, she’s such as fantastic character, and the writing is so engaging! The Kay Hunter series is brilliant isn’t it – I’m excited for the next instalment! 🙂
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I put Evelyn Hugo on next month’s TBR and I’m already looking forward to it! And you can never get enough Kay Hunter. 😉
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So many great books!!! Great post!
I hope you enjoy your six weeks off! 🤗
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Thank you 🙂
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14!! Nice 🙂
I have Her Name Was Rose and am currently reading Believe Me. Only two chapters in, but so far i find the format confusing. Like how the dialogues are shown with the speaker’s name in front of the sentence instead of tags…
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Ooo I can’t wait to see what you think of both 😃
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