I'm reading
After a few hectic weeks where I was juggling a lot of books, this week felt a little less frantic. Whilst I am still juggling a lot of books, I wasn't starting and/or finishing quite as many.From last week, I did finish Head Over Wheels by Leonie Mack, a sports romance featuring professional cyclists. I liked it a lot.
Next up, I read The Women by Kristin Hannah. I wasn't really intending to read it right now, but I had been talking about the book when I was away a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to read it in time for book club. I know that this book can be a bit divisive but I loved it! I am hoping to review it this week but we will see if I get around to it.
I then read The Silver Ladies Seize the Day by Judy Leigh. My review for this will be up in a few days.
I also braved the Melbourne traffic and went to an event with Aussie author Nicole Alexander who was talking about her latest book, The Limestone Coast. The story sounds really interesting. Now I just have to find time to read it!
I then read The Silver Ladies Seize the Day by Judy Leigh. My review for this will be up in a few days.
I also braved the Melbourne traffic and went to an event with Aussie author Nicole Alexander who was talking about her latest book, The Limestone Coast. The story sounds really interesting. Now I just have to find time to read it!
This weekend was our read on a theme book club meeting. The theme this month was 1960's and I read both The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson (reviewed here) and The Women by Kristin Hannah. It turns out that three of us had the same idea and all read The Women. However, there were some other books read as well as shown in the picture above. The next theme is War. Pretty sure I will find multiple books to fit this theme!
Can you believe that we are in June already? The picture at the top of this post are all the books that I loved this month. I finished 17 books and these 7 I rated as 4.5 or 5 stars. I rated The Women as a 5 star read, and the rest were 4.5 star reads.
Can you believe that we are in June already? The picture at the top of this post are all the books that I loved this month. I finished 17 books and these 7 I rated as 4.5 or 5 stars. I rated The Women as a 5 star read, and the rest were 4.5 star reads.
At the end of last month I saw a new feature at It's All About Books called Bookish Travel. I love travelling all over the words through the pages of books, and so I thought I would share the places that I travelled at the end of each month. So, where did I travel this month
Asia - Hong Kong
Vietnam
Europe - Scotland
England
Italy
France
Greece
US - Nantucket Island
Georgia
Australia - New South Wales
I might try and do something to represent this a bit differently in future but I will figure out what that looks like later.
I'm watching
I didn't realise that the fourth series of Welcome to Wrexham was showing so we binged watched the four episodes that are available so far. I love the way that this show is not only about the soccer cllub but also about the town of Wrexham as well.
When I was preparing my post for yesterday about Tucci in Italy, I also stumbled upon a new Youtube series featuring Stanley Tucci called Stanley Tucci Puts his Cards on the Table. The idea is that he invites three other well known guests for dinner and during the course of it they answer questions from a box which contain starter questions. The only episode I have watched so far featured Melanie C from the Spice Girls, Formula 1 driving Carlos Sainz and Tan France from Queer Eye. Here's the trailer
I might try and do something to represent this a bit differently in future but I will figure out what that looks like later.
I'm watching
I didn't realise that the fourth series of Welcome to Wrexham was showing so we binged watched the four episodes that are available so far. I love the way that this show is not only about the soccer cllub but also about the town of Wrexham as well.
When I was preparing my post for yesterday about Tucci in Italy, I also stumbled upon a new Youtube series featuring Stanley Tucci called Stanley Tucci Puts his Cards on the Table. The idea is that he invites three other well known guests for dinner and during the course of it they answer questions from a box which contain starter questions. The only episode I have watched so far featured Melanie C from the Spice Girls, Formula 1 driving Carlos Sainz and Tan France from Queer Eye. Here's the trailer
Life
Nothing much to report on really.
Posts from the last week
Top Ten Tuesday: Animal Companions
Blog Tour: The Santorini Writing Retreat by Eva Glyn
Posts from the last week
Top Ten Tuesday: Animal Companions
Blog Tour: The Santorini Writing Retreat by Eva Glyn
Weekend Cooking: Macarons Class
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - June links
Tucci in Italy/Nonnas - Italian food!
I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date and Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz
I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date and Sunday Salon hosted at Readerbuzz
I'm glad you enjoyed The Women as well! It was such a fantastic story; probably one of my absolute favorites by her. And it's great to see another bookish travel post! That's a very neat travel list indeed; I don't visit Asia often enough in books...
ReplyDeleteI just realised I had some other US states that I could have included from the women. And also Head Over Wheels went all over Europe. I'll figure it out a bit better for next month!
DeleteI want to read The Women. It looks really good and I haven't read that author in a long time. I always enjoyed her books. I love the bookish travel. Hope you have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI was surprised by how much I enjoyed it Yvonne!
DeleteI keep going back and forth about reading The Women. I guess it is divisive, because I think I flip every time that a book blogger says they didn't like it or they did. Time to put it back on the list!
ReplyDeleteI guess you will just have to read it and make your own mind up about it Joy!
DeleteI also enjoyed reading The Women--it was a book club read for me. A few of your other featured books caught my eye: the latest Helen Simsonson; The Tea Ladies; and The Woman Who Met Herself. I'll be giving those a closer look.
ReplyDeleteI loved all of those books. Not sure how easy some of them will be for you to find though.
DeleteI still haven't read The Women, but I have it here. The Tea Ladies sounds good as well. You've been busy with book-related things lately. Hope you're having a fun time, Marg.
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I have another book event this week which I am very much looking forward to.
DeleteI love this post! I read The Women last month and adored it, but seriously love the idea of traveling through books. Another blogger shared how to track on Google Maps all the places you read throughout the year, and it's really cool to see how far around the world I can go with reading.
ReplyDeleteThat is a cool idea! I think that Yvo does that too!
DeleteSome good books in your first pic, several are on my TBR list. I wish Nicole Alexander would come to Perth, i always enjoy her novels.
ReplyDeleteI hope to read Limestone Coast soon!
DeleteKeeping track of the countries covered by various books you read is a neat idea. I used to do it with mysteries, though I don't think mysteries vary in origin as much as they did in the past. I love the fact that tiny Iceland is home to several really good detective fiction authors!
ReplyDeletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
That Nordic area does seem to have a predilection for crime!
Delete"The story sounds really interesting. Now I just have to find time to read it!" -- ha, yes, the eternal problem! Hope you have a good reading week and find plenty of time to fit in some of those interesting stories. :D
ReplyDeleteSo many books, so little time!
DeleteCards on the Table sounds like a more relaxed upscale version of that Hot Wings show. Lol. I would probably enjoy the Tucci one! Head over Wheels looks cute!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the Hot Wings show!
DeleteThe Tucci one is feel good, intelligent and entertaining. Well worth watching.
I'm glad you enjoyed The Women novel. Pretty good right? I liked the first half more than the second but still pretty gripping. I like cycling so I might check out the Head Over Wheels book and the Helen Simonson book. Your reading is going well!
ReplyDeleteThe Women did get a bit less interesting in the second half.
DeleteHead Over Wheels was a fun read. I will have a review up closer to release date.
I very much enjoyed The Women by Hannah. Some of her books are hit or miss for me but this one was very good. Love the travel around the world and I try and make my list of "where i have been" each month.
ReplyDeleteBoth of the books I have read by her so far have been hits, although The Women is the only one I gave 5 stars too.
DeleteSounds like you are keeping busy. I'm trying to only have two books going at the same time - one Kindle and one audiobook. I find I can't spread my brain out to keeping track of plots for any more books than that. Your book club sounds interesting. I like that concept better than everyone reading the same book. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteI love our read on a theme book club. Normally we have a wide selection of reads. It was mostly coincidence that several of us read the same book
DeleteI love Stanley Tucci. I must look for this series.
ReplyDeleteBookish Travel sounds like a great meme. I should keep up with where I'm going next month via books and join in.
I'm glad you loved The Women.
I really enjoyed all four episodes of the Tucci show.
DeleteI am definitely planning to keep track of where I read for Bookish Travel.
You had a great reading month and a wonderful past week. Like how you read in so many places, nice variety. Head Over Wheels does sound good.
ReplyDeleteEspecially seeing as the Giro d'Italia has just finished and Tour de France isn't far away.
DeleteI'm intrigued with all this talk of controversy. I'll have to look up The Women.
ReplyDeleteThere are definitely a lot of strong opinions about this book. My review will be up later this week.
DeleteNothing much to report can definitely be a good thing in my world. :) Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteCould be worse right?
DeleteI love Stanley Tucci and didn’t know about this series. Thanks for sharing about it!
ReplyDeleteI watched all the remaining episodes yesterday. It is feel good, intelligent and entertaining content for sure!
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