We are already two months through the 20 Books of Summer/Winter event! Can you believe how quickly that has gone?
Our hosts, Emma from Words and Peace and Annabel from Annabookbel have come up with some fun questions for our end of month recaps.
I think I am a little bit behind at this point and that I am going to struggle to get some of the remaining books read. I read 7 books in June and 5 of the books that I nominated on my original lists in July I did read 19 books in total in June and 18 in July so I do have some opportunities for swaps should I need them later.
Here's my full list. The ones in bold are the titles I have read. The purple ones are the ones I read in June and the ones in red are the ones I read in July
20 Books of Winter
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn - Review
A Bakery in Paris by Aimie K Runyan - Review
Over the Seas to Skye by Sue Moorcroft - Review
Three Juliets by Minnie Darke
A Secret Garden in Paris by Sophie Beaumont
The Midnight Bakery by Emma Davies
Half Truth by Nadia Mahjouri - Review
The Village Cafe in the Loire by Gillian Harvey - Review
The Storytellers by Sue Heath
The Story Collector by Evie Woods
French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain
The King's Jewel by Elizabeth Chadwick
The Butterfly Women by Madeleine Cleary - Review
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina
Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
Our hosts, Emma from Words and Peace and Annabel from Annabookbel have come up with some fun questions for our end of month recaps.
I think that would have to be Beartown by Fredrik Backman. I knew that this book was going to be good as lots of people I know have loved it. I think what surprised me the most about this book was the way that the tension built throughout the book. There were times when I knew that something momentous was about to happen and the tension was ramping up so much that I had to put the book down for a while to psych myself up for the action.
If your July reading experience was a weather forecast, what would it be and why?
Dreamy with a chance of snow - winter was very much the setting in both Beartown and Emily Wilde! The dreamy comes from both Dallergut and Emily Wilde.
Name a setting from your July books where you’d love (or hate) to take a summer vacation.
Well......I don't think it would surprise anyone if I say France. I would love to wander the streets of Montmartre to find the Bakery in Paris and then I would be more than happy to find a cafe in the Loire Valley to sit and watch the world pass by!
If you could turn one book into a summer festival, what would the main event be?
I think that the Dallergut Dream Store would be a perfect theme for a summer festival. The idea of the book is that when we are sleeping we visit the store and choose to buy our dream themes, and there are even dreams for your pets. You could do an amazing festival with all the different types of dreams.
Choose your own adventure—recap July in the style of your choice:
I am not terribly creative so here is my cover collage
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