May Books in Review

May was a very good reading month for me.  I read (16) books and posted short reviews for them as well.  (65 books YTD.

I had one DNF in May - Come With Me; Helen Schulman (just wasn't working for me)

 In May my armchair travels kept me mostly here in the USA with the exception of a brief stint in Italy, Ireland and Canada. The US states visited were: (3) trips to Massachusetts, (3) trips to New York, Illinois, California, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington.

I really enjoyed my May picks overall. I had (2) 5-star reads in May and several in the 4 to 4.5 star range as well.

What I Read

1. Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting; Anna Quindlen - 4.5/5 (eGalley-May)
2. The River; Peter Heller - 4.5/5 (library/May)
3. Here's to Us; Elin Hilderbrand - 3/5 (audio/library-May)
4. Henry, Himself; Stewart O'Nan - 4.5/5 (print/library-May)
5. Miracle Creek; Angie Kim - 4.5/5 (audio download/library-May)
6. The Wartime Sisters; Lynda Cohen Loigman - 5/5 (ARC/Audio Combo-May)
7. A Stone for Danny Fisher; Harold Robbins - 5/5 (audible-May)
8. Normal People; Sally Rooney - 4/5 - (eGalley-May)
9. Daisy Jones and the Six; Taylor Jenkins Reid - 4/5 (audio-May)
10. The Girl He Used to Know; Tracey Garvis Graves - 4.5/5 (print/library-May)
11. Women in Sunlight; Frances Mayes - 3.5/5 (ebook-book group read-May)
12. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay & a Mother's Will to Survive; Stephanie Land - 1/5 (audio/library-May)
13. Herstory: 50 Women & Girls Who Shook Up the World; Katherine Halligan - 4.5/5 (audio & print-library - May)
14. Never Love a Stranger; Harold Robbins - 4/5 (audible - May)
15. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls; Anissa Gray - 3.5/5( print & audio-May)
16. Before She Knew Him; Peter Swanson - 4.5/5 - (audio & print/-May)

Breakdown

Fiction - 13  NF - 3 - DNF - 1

Audios -  10

eBooks  - 1

print     - 5
ARCS/Review Books - 4

audio/eBook Combos - 4

Borrowed from Library - 8

Off my Shelves - 8

June Plans

(so far)

The Last Resort; Marissa Stapley - The Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the “last resort” offers a chance for partners to repair their relationships in a luxurious setting on the gorgeous Mayan Riviera.

The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted; Robert Hillman - A tender and wise novel about love, family, and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his world turned upside down by a vibrant woman determined to open the first bookstore his town has ever seen--and to leave her haunting memories of the Holocaust far behind.

The Secretary; Renee Knight - A novel of psychological suspense about the intricate power struggle between a prominent female executive and her faithful personal assistant—and its explosive consequences.

The Ditch; Herman Koch - The bracing and inventive new novel of suspicions and secrecy from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner

The Mother-in-Law; Sally Hepworth - A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death.

What Alice Forgot; Lianne Moriarty - “Funny and knowing...[about] what we choose to remember, and fight to forget.”—O Magazine

Hope everyone had a great month!