A much slower reading month for June. More work and more bustle in life generally tends to crowd the reading out. My total for the month was seven books read. Almost averaged two books a week, which when you put it that way, isn’t so insignificant, particularly taking into account such busy times.
I read another classic this month, Mrs Dalloway. I’ll confess here, I’m not going to be lining up to become a fan girl, but I will acknowledge her cleverness in terms of writing style, I just personally found it a mess to read. Nevertheless, very glad I’ve kept with the momentum of a classic read each month. Still undecided on what I’ll read next month although my Nancy Mitford is waving to me madly from the side table.
Mrs Dalloway also counts towards my 22 in 2022 challenge, so one more down on that.
That leaves six review books read. Not all of these of these have had reviews posted yet. Two aren’t released until later dates and one I just finished this morning. All decent reads that I’d happily recommend.
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And that’s a wrap on May. Until next month… ☕📚
Theresa Smith Writes 
I’ve only read The Woman in the Library of these. I did get The Brightest Star, but you know how I feel about historical fiction….
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I do, lol. And this is very historical so I won’t hold my breath on you reading it!
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Virginia Woolf? I hear you. That’s what I thought the first time I read her, but she grew on me.
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So what novel of hers changed it for you? Or did you revisit her work and see it in a different light?
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It was The Hours. I read it at uni, so I had help to make sense of it. I liked it even more when I read Michael Cunningham’s riff on it, also titled The Hours.
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So, The Hours is not Mrs Dalloway? I was confused about this because I thought for some reason that The Hours was the title of the film based partially on Mrs Dalloway and partially on Virginia writing it.
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Oh, duh, of course it is. (Let’s blame Covid brain, which has made me some odd things this week, e.g. typing Thomas Mann instead of Thomas Shapcott and not noticing till I’d finished and proof-read it.)
I know what you (and Zeus) would like. Try Flush, the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog.
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Oooh! That sounds lovely!
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I’m looking forward to reading The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt!
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I feel certain you will enjoy it as much as I did!
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