Books I’ve read this month
What the hell… I read 6 books this month?!
Pages read: 1680
Audiobook: 2
Female authors: 1
Male authors: 5
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
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The Fog by James Herbert
The Devil and Harper Lee by Mark Seal
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The Forgotten Girl by Rio Youers
Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding
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Other books I’ve reviewed this month
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
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Favourite book of the month
I was lucky to be a part of the Titan Books blog tour for The Forgotten Girl by Rio Youers and it turned out to be an absolutely fantastic thrill ride of a book!
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Books bought or received this month
I didn’t go nearly as mad as I did last month, but I did go back to that 70% off warehouse again and I won a 4 book giveaway!
Gifted: 1
Giveaway: 4
From Publishers: 1
Audiobook: 1
Book Swap: 3
- Thanks to Titan Books for The Girl in Red, I’m excited to be a part of the Instagram tour for that one
- Much love to @bookmarkthatuk and @aboxofstories for the giveaway win books!
- I took part in the Busy Mama Book Swap again this month – thanks to @sarahaprilmerritt for THREE books!!
- Huge love to @bookishly_kerrie for sending me Geek Love out of the kindness of her heart too!
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Book goal update
I remain ahead of schedule! If I can keep this “speedy” reading up, I’ll smash my goal this year!!
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Here are the pics I posted on IG this month! I received the most likes on a picture ever this month – 700 and counting!! (Pls follow my account, linked in the heading above!)
Personal update
At the beginning of May, I went to Kew Gardens. It was absolutely bloody freezing but it didn’t rain too much so we could appreciate the gardens. It was a nice day but it gave me a foot injury that lasted just over a week that was highly irritating!
I also had the first ever sleepover guests to the house and watched the most awful horror film, Slenderman.
This month I created myself a TBR jar because being a mood reader means that a load of my older purchased books have been left unread for years! It turns out I have 250 unread books in total – oops!!
If you follow me on IG you’ll know that some cows moved into the field opposite our house and I’ve been having a lot of fun watching them. It’s got to the point now that people are tagging me in pics if they ever come across a cow haha! Also on one of the nicer evenings, we went for a walk and came across a field of sheep just chilling out, was kind of frightened they’d chase me.
One Saturday I went out to a friends gig and then had a really pleasant pub drinking evening afterwards. On the Sunday after, I went to a friends for a BBQ, spent a whole 9 hours with all my friends and it was one of the best days I’ve had in absolutely ages!
I also had a super long bank holiday weekend! Took the Friday off and went up to York with my cousin & her bf to see my other cousins & her fiance. It was a really lovely weekend all spent together. We saw the sights, drove a boat, and ate fantastic food. We had a bit of a messy night on Friday, not getting in until 4am and then on Saturday we played a super complex but fun board game!
Also went for afternoon tea on Tuesday, which was a present from my cousin at Christmas. It was super tasty and in a really cute hotel! The same day, we went to IKEA and picked up some extra house bits, and ordered a new bookcase from Argos which arrived the same day.
That’s a wrap
So that’s it for this month, I hope you all had a nice May too! What were some of your highlights of this month?
BookBum 
Great month! May was also a great reading month for me, thank gosh. I’m a couple books ahead of schedule, so I hope I can beat my reading challenge!! So many lovely photos of you on insta!! ❤ And is that high tea?!! I love high tea …
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Thanks! I’m pretty pleased with all my reading 😀 Woo, we can do it 🙌 and I’ve never heard it called high tea before so I had to Google it, but yes! 😛
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YES WE CAN! And oh really? Is that just a North American thing that we decided to make up again?!? LMAO!
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No I think it’s a real thing bt I always knew it was Afternoon Tea haha!
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Ooooooooooooo okay ha-ha!! On the menus at “high tea” places here, there is something called Afternoon Tea as well 😀
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Oh well maybe there is High Tea here too then and I’m just oblivious to it hahaa!
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LMAO! Whichever … in either case, I get tea AND treats!
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‘Geek Love’ hit me pretty hard, many years ago. I really liked it, though, I did not care for her other books.
Happy Trails!
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I have never seen any of her other work so I always assume she was a one hit wonder!
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Sounds like a great month! Love the photos… if I was on IG more, I’d totally follow you! I don’t actually use my account there, though, so I’ll just follow you here instead. 😉
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Haha, no worries! 😛
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You had a great May! I love your Instagram feed and you got me drooling over those pastries… And congrats on your Goodreads reading challenge!
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Thank you so much! That means a lot ❤ and thanks again, I'm chuffed with how well I'm doing on it so far!
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Looks and sounds like a great month and well done for getting 700 likes on that photo!!
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May was pretty successful if you ask me!! 😀 & thank you! x
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I’ve seen the Devil and Harper Lee and thought it a bit strange that a book on what sounded like the same subject was coming out at the same time as Furious Hours, which I loved. It seems like you didn’t like this one so much?
Gorgeous pictures!!
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It’s definitely a similar sounding book! I might give Furious Hours a go as you’re right, I didn’t like The Devil and Harper Lee. It was a very short listen (audiobook!) and it was interesting enough, however is just skimmed the surface. I felt left wanting to know more! I’ll get arounf to doing a ful lreview at some point haha. And thank you so much! 🙂
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Furious Hours is definitely in depth, and just such a good read! I think it’s perfect if you want to know more about the Reverend story and Harper Lee herself. I really loved it.
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Thanks for the recommendation! It’s on the TBR 😀
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Looks like you had a great month! I have Little Darlings on ebook but haven’t gotten to it yet. I really want to though! 👌🏼 I unfortunately only read one book in May, so I’m behind on my GR challenge – but I definitely plan on catching up 😁
Happy reading 😊
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It was a good month! It’s an exciting read, I hope you enjoy it. Oh well, reading is still reading, it all count 🙂
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