Time for another look back at what I’ve read this month. I had a really good reading month and even read at least one book that I know will probably make it to my year end favorites. As usual though I’ve fallen behind on telling you about all of my books read and a bunch of other things but life has just been keeping me away from the blog and bogland.

Here’s what I read:

Smoke Gets in your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Untouchable by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
Felicity by Mary Oliver
The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams
Unsub by Meg Gardiner

Nonfiction, poetry, audiobooks and mystery! So managed to keep up with adding a bit of variety and keeping things interesting. Hands down my favorite of all of these was The Book of Unknown Americans but I also enjoyed a few others.

As usual, I’m also carrying over a couple of reads into March but I’ll tell you more about those in another post. Now, I have to get ready because I’m off to a crafty workshop and I am so excited. This week was exhausting at work so I really need a bit of fun and time to play with paints and meet other creatives. I hope you also had a great reading month and can’t wait to catch up soon. Have a great weekend!

You guys, you won’t believe it. I was looking around in my stacks of craft book stacks looking for a particular magazine when I found some pictures and brochures. I looked through them and they were from a trip to Berlin in 2008! I realized that I had saved those items next to that magazine because there was a neat photo album idea that I wanted to make. Obviously I forgot to get around to it. But I also discovered a little paper bag and in it were these two bookmarks! How could I have forgotten those? I guess that’s what happens when you have too many books and bookmarks

Anyway, I wanted to follow up on my post about mysteries because I’ve recently heard or read reviews of some mysteries which I thought I’d like to check out. I wanted to share these here in case you’ve read them and can recommend or maybe it’s something you want to check out as well.

The Girl from Blind River by Gale Massey. Everyone says the Elders family are nothing but cheats, thieves, and convicts—a fact nineteen-year old Jamie Elders has been trying desperately to escape.

Suicide Club by Rachel Heng. Lea Kirino is a “Lifer,” which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever—if she does everything right.

The Butterfly Conspiracy by Vivian Conroy. In late Victorian times, when new inventions cause both excitement and terror, a mysterious death at a zoological lecture brings together two unlikely allies in a quest through London’s upper crust and underbelly to unravel the ingenious murder method and killer behind it.

Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia. There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned.

Murder at Archly Manor by Sara Rosett. London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job—looking into the background of her cousin’s fiancé, Alfred.

Let me know if you’ve read any of these and if you recommend them. Now, I’m thinking I need to go back to my book stacks and see what else I have hiding there!