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It’s Monday! What are you reading?

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. so, it's been a fortnight since I last posted, as you might have read in one of my posts earlier in the …
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It's Monday! What are you reading?

By Claire Louisa on Aug 26, 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.

so, it's been a fortnight since I last posted, as you might have read in one of my posts earlier in the week, I have been really unwell with vertigo, I'm finally, 9 days on feeling nearly normal. So suffice to say there wasn't a great deal of reading or listening to my audiobooks last week.

I managed to finish reading

An ARC of The Cinderella Prince by Hayden Hall which turned out to be really enjoyable after a slow start by me getting into it,⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review will go up later this week.

An MM romance and also an ARC of Stronger Than Fate by Becca Seymour the 4th and final book in the fabulous Fangs & Felons urban fantasy series. I'll be publishing my review this week along with the rest of the series, it was so good! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Another ARC Siren in the Rain by Chloe Archer, a fated mates MM fantasy, I loved this one ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ see my review.

Zenith (Lake Prophet #3) by Eli Easton and RJ Scott an MM crime/mystery/thriller. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great murder mystery and a great way to end this series. I loved Gabriel and Tiber and the 'kids' so much. The plot had me on the edge of my seat.

I also finished Aiden (the Hamiltons #4) by Carole Brungar a New Zealand author whose Vietnam historical series is one of my favourites and while this is a lot lighter this MF romance was very enjoyable ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Audiobooks I finished

I finished listening After Story by Larissa Behrendt, this Australian novel by an Indigenous author has been on my TBR list for ages, I even had it out of the library at some point but didn't find the time to read it. It has been chosen as next month's starting point for the #6Degrees of Separation post so I figured there wasn't a better time to make time for it. I was a quietly beautiful novel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⚡ see my review.

An ARC of Every Moment Since by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, a mystery/crime novel about an unsolved missing boy 20 years before and the family who were left behind and what happens when his jacket is discovered and the cold case reopened. It was really good and the full cast of narrators were great⭐⭐⭐⭐⚡ . I'll post my review soon.


This week I am reading far too many books again.

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 got to 80% and I wasn't able to renew it and it suddenly was no longer in the Libby catalogue for the WA librarys, but I have the physical copy waiting for me to pick it up at my local library so I can finish it off.

I am also still 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 was doing.

I'm still going with I am reading an ARC of With Winter Comes Darkness by Robbi Neal an Australian historical fiction crime/suspense book, isn't the cover atmospheric. I'm finding this hard to get into because I'm not liking the way it is narrated.

I am also reading an ARC of Complete Me (Love in the Pacific Northwest #6) by Beck Grey, the last in the series it's an MMM polyamory romance and it's so good.

I am also reading Shadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter, I went and saw Louise speak a few weeks ago and I was first in line at the library when this book came in. I just hope I can finish it before I have to take it back because there is a request waiting for it. It's a dual timeline mystery/suspense novel.

I have a few more ARCs I need to get to after Complete Me as well as some more library books waiting patiently for me to make time for them.

I am listening to

Dirrayawadha: Rise Up by Anita Heiss - set in Bathurst NSW, Australian Frontier Wars of the 1820s - Anita Heiss is breathing new life into the Australian historical epic. Dirrayawadha (Rise Up) shows the resistance leader Windradyne as the remarkable figure he was and surrounds him with fascinating figures otherwise lost to history. With irresistible imagination and verve, as well as a deep desire for truth telling, Anita Heiss's novels are re-peopling our past.

An ARC of Year of the Rabbit (Shifters of the Chinese Zodiac #1) by Anni Lee a dark paranormal MM romance


So another busy reading and listening fortnight ahead. I'd love to hear what you are reading. Until next time, happy reading oh and please check out my #shelfpoetry post, maybe you'll be inspired to join me for this new monthly linked post I'm starting up.

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