I’ve been behind on telling you about my current reads but not a lot has changed this month. I seem to not be making much progress but I just blame it on lack of available time. Anyway, here are the books I’m enjoying so far this month:

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover. A modern love story with characters that are almost too good to be true but somehow it’s totally capturing my attention.

The Awkward Squad by Sophie Henaff. This is very reminiscent of the Department Q books by Jussi Adler-Olsen. A group of misfit detectives get thrown together to solve cold cases. It doesn’t seem like the police department really cares whether the cases are solved or not but they just don’t want to deal with them. For the lead detective this is a chance to prove their worth. Really enjoying it.

The Ladies-in-Waiting by Santiago Garcia. A graphic novel about the life of Diego Velasquez and how he came to one of Spain’s most important artists and his influence on other great artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. I had really high hopes for this one but somehow it’s not meeting my expectations.

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. I feel like I’ve been reading this book forever not that I mind. I love the way Sarah Waters writes and the way she depicts characters. It’s just a bit more slow reading than some of my other books.

The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters. This is one of my R.I.P. reads and it’s a story about four girlfriends and the scary stories they used to tell and the terrifying consequences. So far so good!

Haunted Castles by Ray Russell. This book has one of the best covers. It’s a collection of stories and the first one is Sardonicus and it is creepy. I love the gothic feel of this story and think I made the right choice in selecting this collection as another of my R.I.P. reads.

Let me know if you’ve read any of these and what you thought. I hope I get a chance to make some headway into all of these stories this weekend. Then again, I do have a crafty class I’m going to which I can’t wait to tell you about it. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and may you find lots of time to catch up on your reading!

I ended up missing out on going to my mystery book club meeting but I had a very good reason. One of my best friends was in town so I got to see her Monday and Tuesday after work. While I wish book group had been on another night, it actually wasn’t so bad as I still haven’t finished the book. I’m really enjoying it but just have fallen behind.

Anyway, figured I could use this post to tell you about some mysteries I’m interested in reading. I’ve heard about these either via other blogs, book reviews, newsletters, etc.

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club…especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished—and so has Mary’s employer Sherlock Holmes! This is the third mystery in the series. Doesn’t it sound fun?

The Dead Girl in 2A by Carter Wilson. Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver―he just can’t figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn’t in Jake’s line of work and didn’t go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they’ve met before.

The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh. Sadie Keller is determined to find out how her brother died, even if no one else thinks it’s worth investigating. Untimely deaths are all too common in rural Blackwater, Kansas, where crime and overdoses are on the rise, and the small-town police force is consumed with the recent discovery of a child’s skull in the woods.

Sarah Jane by James Sallis. Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos.

The Reunion by Guillaume Musso. One freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl at her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teacher, with whom she has been conducting a secret affair. She will never be seen again.

Let me know if any of these sound good to you.