Eleni's Reading for May 2018

Here are my May reads - finished off a few on my TBR pile this month. Yay!

Read: 10               (down 1)

Series: 8               (up 2)
TBR: 6                  (up 6)
Audio: 1                (down 5)
AWW: 4                (up 4)
Graphic novels: 2 (down 2)

Historical Romance

• Bound for Eden (Frontiers of the Heart #1) by Tess LeSue | 4.75 stars - good fun
• The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn (audio) | 3.75 stars

Paranormal Romance

• Magical Redemption (Myth & Magic #3) by Nicola E. Sheridan | 4.75 stars 
• The Crocodile Virgin: A Short Story by Jenny Schwartz | 4 stars

Graphic Novels

• Smile (Smile #1) by Raina Telgemeier | graphic novel | 4 stars
• Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files: Storm Front, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm (The Dresden Files Graphic Novels #1.1) by Jim Butcher et al. | 4 stars

Mystery

• Lost Cause (Daisy Dunlop Mysteries #1) by J.L. Simpson | 4.5 stars
• Missing You (Missing #5) by Meg Cabot (writing as Jenny Carroll) | 4.5 stars - YA and Romantic Elements

Anthologies

• Focus 2012: highlights of Australia short fiction by Tehani Croft Wessely (editor) | 4 stars

Sci-Fi

• The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3) by John Scalzi | 4.5 stars

Happy Reading!

Reading for April 2018

Here are my April reads - a varied read this month.

Read: 11
Series: 6
TBR: 0 (was that type of month were my TBR reading is continuing but no books were finished).
Audio: 6
AWW: 0
Graphic novels: 4



Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy

• The Beginning (Hunter Legends Series 0.5) by Sherrilyn Kenyon | short story | 4 stars
• The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint (audio narrated by Tai Sammons & Paul Michael Garcia) | 5 stars - Favourite book of the month. Loved the style and the audio version was really good.

Mystery

• A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge #1) by Charles Todd (audio narrated by Samuel Giles) | 3.5 stars
• The Lost Days of Agatha Christie by Carole Owens (audio narrated by Wanda McCaddon) | 4 stars

Graphic Novels

• Snow White: a graphic novel by Matt Phelan | 4 stars
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Circus of the Damned, Volume 2: The Ingenue (Anita Blake Graphic Novels) by Laurell K. Hamilton,  Jessica Ruffner, and Ron Lim (Illustrator) | graphic novel | 4 stars
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Circus of the Damned, Volume 3: The Scoundrel (Anita Blake Graphic Novels) by Laurell K. Hamilton,  Jessica Ruffner, and Ron Lim (Illustrator) | graphic novel | 4.5 stars
• Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier | graphic novel | 4 stars

Non-fiction

• I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai  and Patricia McCormick (audio narrated by Malala Yousafzai and Neela Vaswani) | non-fiction | YA | 4.5 stars - fascinating and has an outlook of hope. 

Children's

• The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz #2) by L. Frank Baum (audio narrated by Tara Sands) | children's | 3 stars

Classics

• Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves #3) by P.G. Wodehouse (audio narrated by Jonathan Cecil) | 4 stars - Chuckling read.  A few stories was in the the previous Jeeves compilations.

Happy Reading!

~E~