May Book Round Up

On the heels of my busy and packed April reading habits, May came in a little quieter, but I’m ok with that. I only read three books, but all were fantastic and two were part of getting ready for our Scotland trip. You see, we’ll be living in Edinburgh during the festival season and one of those, is the Edinburgh International Book Festival. I bought tickets to a few Front Line talks (like key note speakers) and wanted to read books by those authors in particular. I also am making an effort to specifically read novels that have won the Booker Prize or the International Booker Prize, just as a personal goal.

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April Book Round Up

Ok ok, I’m a day late for posting this in May but I am doing it! I’m doing the thing! April was an ok month for books. I got a new computer in April also, because of storage issues (due to a miscommunication about iCloud+ storage when I bought my previous MacBook Air) so now I have a 1TB shiny new blue MacBook Air and it’s been fun. Since I had the space and power, I downloaded the Sims 4 again and started playing – I indulged in some expansion packs, too. That kept me busy on top of the books and work.

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March Book Round Up

I am going to try something new for my book round ups. Instead of uploading all the book images and inserting them as a tiled gallery here, I will use the monthly graphic available from my StoryGraph account, so it’s more consolidated. StoryGraph is an alternative to Goodreads and right now, I am using both. You can feel free to follow me over on StoryGraph if you’d like! My username is shown in the graphics. Goodreads is more linked to my real name so I won’t be sharing that. But they’re identical in what I am tracking right now. March was actually a pretty solid month for reads. I read 11 books!

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