I hope you all had a great weekend. We did not make it to the bookstore for our regular date night because my husband was busy with garden work all of Saturday. Instead though we went to a nearby coffeeshop in the afternoon to enjoy a sweet treat and a cappuccino for me and tea for my husband. We had our reading material with us so it was nice to hang out and just make time to read.
Anyway, now it’s time to wrap up another month. While June was a fabulous reading month in the amount of books I read, July was definitely not. Of course I was back from vacation and back to catching up with work, home life, etc. and unfortunately my reading has been slow. I only read three books in July.
It was also all about mysteries. I read The Woman In Blue by Elly Griffiths, Night Life by David C. Taylor and Murder in Morningside Heights by Victoria Thompson. I enjoyed all of these though so even if it wasn’t a month with a lot of books, at least no duds. I do have some other books that are ongoing but I’ll tell you about those in another post.
These books did not meet any of the requirements for my reading challenges so nothing to report on that end. There’s always next month right?
What I’m looking forward to in August though are a couple of book giveaways and an author guest post. What about you, what are you looking forward to in August?
I only read three books in July, as well. And two of those were audio books! Definitely a slow time of year for reading! Glad to hear that The Woman in Blue was enjoyable. I’m ready for another Elly Griffiths book right about now.
I love that you two have weekly book dates. Our weekends get away from us and I need to make an effort to plan a coffee/book date with my hubby, if not every weekend, at least a couple of times a month. Thanks for the inspiration!
I read a lot in July–running the gamut of very good to “don’t think I’ll review that!” It was too hot to do much else.
Like Les, I love your weekly book dates with your husband!
No duds is good. 🙂 I didn’t read a lot in July either. Probably my average, really. Sounds like your night out was a pleasant one!
I enjoy that you have weekly book dates, but I would find myself buying something on many of those… So, probably a good thing we don’t do that. lol I hope August is a great month for you!
A good month for you! August is one of my least favorite months, it is hot and humid and I just have to get through it to September when things begin to turn to fall.
I think my average read in a month is 4 books. That’s like, one book per week. I’ll be very happy if I’m able to squeeze in 2 books in a week but that’s my wishful thinking! 😀
My reading was off last month, too, so I am totally sympathetic. Let’s put it down to too much hot weather! I really need to get back to Elly Griffiths…. And I think your date nights sound so cool!