While reading is obviously a year-round activity, summer reading is just a treat. Even taking 5 minutes to sit in the sun a read a few pages is so relaxing and really adds little highlight moments to my day. It also means I make a conscious effort to read every day and that’s such a refreshing routine I definitely want to keep up all summer long.
I really enjoyed my books this month, four fiction and a memoir. Take a closer look…
My June Book Reviews:
(Click on book title for my full review.)
/ Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
/ I Don’t Take Requests by DJ Fat Tony
/ The Other Side of Mrs. Wood by Lucy Barker
/ Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
/ Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding
I Don’t Take Requests is a really interesting and emotional memoir by DJ Fat Tony. He lived a celeb-filled, rollercoaster life until his drug addiction took over and he needed to change to survive. Now clean, he reflects on his life and aims to help others now with his story. I really enjoyed this one.
My fiction reads were a mixed bunch in terms of their themes but all excellent. I had some historical fiction (featuring Victorian London mediums) from The Other Side of Mrs. Wood, then a sexy New York love story in Seven Days in June (yes, read because it is June…).
Then there was a unique murder mystery in Speak of the Devil (it opens with seven women surrounding a decapitated head and one of them did it, but even they don’t know who) and one of the funniest (in a dry, insightful, knowing way) books I’ve read in a long time with Really Good, Actually, about a woman going through a divorce in her late 20s and how she adjusts tot hat and works out what she wants from life. I can’t relate to the divorce part but finding your way in your 20s is a theme that will resonate with most of us, I think.
Until next month, happy reading!
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