What I read

I have been reading a lot this month – I am going to see Val McDermid talk soon so I thought I had better read a few more of her books (I’d only read two when I booked my ticket in the middle of May!). Turns out her books are un-put-down-able and I have been reading them in 2-3 days, or in one case, a single day. The only thing that has really slowed me down is having to wait until I can get to the library for the next one!

I’m back to seven books ahead now, as I managed 15 books in May. Only two were BABALs, but I did borrow four from the library because it was the only (free) way to get my hands on the Val McDermids I wanted to read.

So I read:

• The Paris Bookshop for the Broken-Hearted – Rebecca Raisin
• The Secret Seven
• Cherry Ames, Student Nurse (Cherry Ames #1) – Helen Wells
• Girl Meets Grump (Hailey Gardiner)
• Grave Peril (Dresden Files #3) – Jim Butcher
• Wizard of Most Wicked Ways (Whimbrel House #4) – Charlie N Holmberg
• Five and the Forgotten Treasure – Chris Smith (reviewed here and here)
• The Bookstore Sisters (Once Upon a Bookshop #3) – Alice Hoffman
• Love on the Brain – Ali Hazelwood
• The Buttercup Farm Family
• The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #2) – Val McDermid
• This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
• The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #3) – Val McDermid
• The Torment of Others (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #4) – Val McDermid
• Killing the Shadows – Val McDermid

I ended the month still working through:

• 1979 (Allie Burns #1) – Val McDermid
• Beneath the Bleeding (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan #5) – Val McDermid
• The Queen Elizabeth Family
• The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams
• The Lamplighter’s Bookshop – Sophie Austin

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What I watched

• Given that Supernatural is 15 seasons long, unsurprisingly we are still watching it. Currently on season 4. We’ve also been watching Taskmaster.
• As I have been reading so much I haven’t chosen anything new to watch yet, but I did watch a couple of episodes of Malory Towers.
• My sister and I finished The Flatshare and went back to Ten Years Younger.
• With Brodie we watched the sequel to Twister (1996) – Twisters.

What I did

Despite the good weather I feel like we didn’t get up to much in May. I did spend a lot of afternoons sitting at the park with my book after school though!

• I went a bit mad with the googly eyes at work.
• We visited the wildlife park and paid more attention to their two choughs this time, having read The Challenge of Palores Point by Zoe. I am just now realising that I haven’t reviewed this yet – I really thought I had! Well, at least that gives me an idea for next week’s blog.
• We did our favourite riverside walk and bought ice-cream at one end, and then had a paddle on our way back.
• We took a ride on a steam train (pulled by a faceless Thomas!) and met Paddington at the station.
• We had a fairly massive clear out of Brodie’s bedroom and put aside lots of books to donate to charity (don’t worry he still has hundreds!).

How was your May?