This week...

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!

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.

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

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

An Italian Wedding Adventure by Leonie Mack

The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson

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

Top Ten Tuesday: Trees

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Covers/Titles with Things Found in Nature (covers/titles with things like trees, flowers, animals, forests, bodies of water, etc. on/in them) (Submitted by Jessica @ a GREAT read) I am choosing to focus on trees for my post!

At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker - Listened to this on audio this year and it was really good! It is a fictionalised story of how her grandparents met just after WWII in Japan.

The Flame Tree by Siobhan Daiko - If you are looking for a WWII story set in the Pacific theatre of war, then this could be a good option.

Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak - This was one of my favourite reads of 2022.

Under the Christmas Tree by Robyn Carr - This is part of the Virgin River series.

The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman - I have read a number of this author's books but it has been a while.

Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky - I don't remember anything about this book. To be fair, I did read it back in 2008.

The Red Tree by Shaun Tan - This is another author I haven't read for a long time.

The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay - I often think about the love story in this book.

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty - I have had this book sitting on my shelf for a couple of years now.

The Cedar Tree by Nicole Alexander - This is one that has been sitting on my Kindle for a while! The description does sound good.