I hope you’ve all had a happy weekend (Happy 4th for those of you in the States!). Ours involved a lot of relaxing, a trail walk and of course preparing with a pre-weekend trip to the library. I don’t know what it is but every time the library is going to be closed for a holiday I act like I have to go get more books. Like I’m somehow going to run out of books to read. Ha.

Oh and yes, I know I had talked about being on a library ban but those usually only last a couple of months. So I’m back to putting books on hold and checking out books. So these are the books from two recent library visits.

The three books on the bottom of the pile are graphic novels. I haven’t read but one graphic novel this year so when I saw a mention of these in a newsletter I get I thought it would be fun to check some of them out. Of course I put them on hold and they all came in at once.

I have The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon, Daytripper by Fabion Moon and Gabriel Ba and Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine. Have you read any of these?

The rest include The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou, Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes, Hugo & Rose by Bridget Foley and Malice by Keigo Higashino. So poetry, fiction and crime. Gotta love the variety.

Not pictured because I left the book in my bedroom is Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King. That’s the one I’ve started reading as it’s for my mystery book group. It’s been ages since I’ve read a Stephen King book but just reading the first couple of chapters feels very familiar.

Let me know if you’ve read some of these and what you thought. I’m in the middle of a couple of books right now so I’ll tell you more about those soon. Hope you have a great week ahead!

It’s time to wrap up another month. How do these fly by so quickly, right? Well, June was actually a pretty good reading month for me. I read five books and a couple of those even counted toward some of my reading challenges.

The first book I finished was Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozsi Adichie. Really enjoyed this book a lot. It may not be my favorite of hers, that still is Purple Hibiscus, but this just had a lot of territory to explore. This one also counted toward my Chunkster challenge as it was kind of a long one.

On the mystery front I read A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear. This is the 11th book in the Maisie Dobbs series. I have some mixed feelings about this one and probably those of you who’ve read the whole series can guess why. If you haven’t read this series but want to I would definitely encourage you to start with the first book. There is so much progression in the lives of the characters that you really don’t want to miss out on anything.

The other mystery book I read was Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge. This was a pretty good thriller and I’d be interested to read more by this author.

My last two books also count toward some of my challenges. One is The Sacred River by Wendy Wallace. This is for my What’s In a Name reading challenge. And, The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells counts towards my Back to the Classics challenge. Both of these books I really enjoyed.

I wish I could say that I’ll get back to you with reviews but I’ve been trying to focus on some other areas in my life which need a bit of attention – like my health. I’ll try to get better about the blog/blogging though.  I also want to thank you guys for all the kind comments to my previous post. You guys rock.

So hope you have a wonderful weekend. I’m looking forward to the three day weekend and I just got some coupons for Barnes & Noble so I think I know where we’ll be going.