It's Monday! What are you reading?

By Claire Louisa on Jul 29, 2024

First seen over on Book'd Out I'm going to try to do this post regularly linking to It's Monday! What are you reading? at BookDate.

It's been a fortnight since I posted because I was too exhausted last week after classes started back again. I've gotten in a decent amount of reading this fortnight and managed to catch up on some reviews.

I finished my ARC of Jennie Jones' new historical fiction novel The Girls From Fitzroy which comes out on Wednesday and I'm going to her author talk that evening. It's set in Australia in 1945 just as the war has ended, it was a fabulous read and once I reached the 50% mark I didn't want to put it down to sleep. (I'll post my review this week)

I finished His Prodigal Alpha (Shifters Sanctuary #2) by Anna Sparrows and I'm glad I read book #1 first because it set up the background nicely for this book (see my review).

I read Dark Horse (Class 5 book 1) by Michelle Diener, I bought this back in 2017 and I can't believe it's taken me so long to get to it, mind you if you saw my TBR pile you would probably understand why. I couldn't put this down, I always forget until I pick one up how much I enjoy sci-fi. It's the first in 6 books, so I will need to fit the rest into my reading schedule at some point.

I finished an ARC of Offsides (Blue Mountain University #5) by A.E. Madsen, somehow this got missed in my reading schedule so I was a bit behind in reading it. It was book 5 in an MM college sports romance series which I've really enjoyed.

I read ARCs of Love and Family by Kelsey Hodge (my review) and Hoodoo House by Peter E Fenton (my review) both really good reads.

I also finished an ARC of Flash (Ink Slingers #1) by K.M. Neuhold a really enjoyable read set in the same town as her Four Bears Construction series & her Big Bull Mechanics series, I know I'm going to enjoy this series as book 1 is off to a great start.

I finished 2 Audiobooks this last fortnight The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle which I was reading for bookclub and seemed to take forever to get through, in fact, it took me the whole 28 days it was booked out for. I'm not a big psychological suspense/mystery reader these days and I found this to be completely unbelievable for most of the read, I can't even count how many times I rolled my eyes. I think I'll be on my own in my opinion at my bookclub meeting on Wednesday, but that's ok, we can't all like this genre, give me a police procedural/mystery/thriller and I'm much more interested.

I also listened to an ARC of a novella-length book by a new to me author How to Survive a Summoning by Nikole Knight, this was a short easy and sweet MM fantasy romance.

This week I am reading

I am still reading the memoir Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston. I'm finding it an easy read and one I want to keep reading whenever I pick it up. I'm hoping I can renew it because I won't finish it before it's due back to the digital library.

I am also reading How To Knit a Human: A Memoir by Anna Jacobson this is another easy-to-read mental health memoir, not that the subject itself is an easy read, but the writing is. I came across this as I was researching psychosis for a group assignment I am doing.

I am reading an ARC of The Fog by Brooke Hardwick a mystery/thriller which comes out 4th September.

I'm going to start to work my way backwards through my overdue ARCs, as well as books I own that have been sitting around waiting patiently for me to remember them.

I am listening to an ARC of an FF romance Constitution Check (Dungeons and Dating #4) by Katherine McIntyre I'm struggling a bit with the narrator, I'm not used to the American accent as read by a female as I tend to either listen to male American narrators which admittedly took me a few books to start enjoying and I'm still fussy, or Australian narrators.

I am still listening to Appreciation by Liam Pieper I had to pause in my listening to listen to an ARC and finish the bookclub read.

I also have The Studio Girls by Lisa Ireland out on audiobook to listen to when I finish these two.

So, I think I'm set for the next week, possibly two. What have you enjoyed or what are you currently reading? I'd love to know and have you read any of the ones I've mentioned? Until next time, happy reading or listening.