That’s us halfway through 2024 already!

What I read

I finished 19 books in June which takes me to 39 ahead of schedule. I doubt I can keep up the pace, but if I did… having read 88 books in 6 months, I’d end up reading 176 by the end of the year. Pretty unlikely, and I’m definitely not going to up my goal that much!

What I have read:

• The Lighthouse Kid – Rhondda Kemp-Mottau
• Doing Time (Time Police #1) – Jodi Taylor
• Reading Companion to Just One Damned Thing After Another – Hazel Cushion
• The Castle of Adventure – I’ll share Brodie’s thoughts on this soon
• Cool Girl Summer – Amber Eve
• Wartime for the District Nurses (District Nurses #2) – Annie Groves
• Found in a Bookshop (Lost for Words #2) – Stephanie Butland
• Hard Time (Time Police #2) – Jodi Taylor
• The Cornish Wedding Murder (Nosey Parker Mysteries #1) – Fiona Leitch
• The Lonely Book – Meg Grehan
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• The Underground Library – Jennifer Ryan
• Saving Time (Time Police #3) – Jodi Taylor
• The Cornish Village Murder (Nosey Parker Mysteries #2) – Fiona Leitch
• Lost For Words (Lost For Words #1) – Stephanie Butland
• Strong Female Character – Fern Brady
• About Time (Time Police #4) – Jodi Taylor
• The Valley of Adventure – Brodie’s thoughts also coming soon
• Killing Time (Time Police #5) – Jodi Taylor

I ended the month still working through:

• Girl Sleuth – Melanie Rehak
• A Dead and Stormy Night (Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries #1) – Steffanie Holmes
• The Perfect Cornish Murder (Nosey Parker Mysteries #3) – Fiona Leitch
• The Treasure Hunters (Brodie’s thoughts coming soon.)
• The Enchanted Castle – E Nesbit

What I watched

• We are up to ER season 12 (only three to go!)
• We finished Is it Cake? season 3 so watched The Proposal (my first time).
• I’ve dipped in and out of Green Wing but haven’t finished series 2 yet.
• I continued series three of Malory Towers and reviewed the next few episodes.

What I did

• We did some garden care with our new lawnmower, shears and loppers. (Nine years we’ve lived here and this is the first time we’ve ever cut the grass!) We also installed a raised planter for our strawberries and planted potatoes in a bag.
• We went to Longforgan for their annual scarecrow trail, this year’s theme was Video Games.
• We went to a comic con and Brodie met a couple of Transformers.
• Brodie and I saved an exhausted bee we found in the hall by giving it some sugar water
• We had a nice walk along one of our favourite disused railway lines and found lots of tiny wild strawberries plus a couple of geocaches.
• We went to the beach and I managed my first (brief) sea swimming of the year.
• We took a trip to Perth on the train to see the model railway exhibition then headed to the newly opened museum to look around, and ended up visiting their unicorn exhibition too.

How was your June?