June TBR
Honestly, this is my favorite post to write every month. Even when I have no idea what I'm going to put on the list, I love the idea of the possibilities. Let's see what I can come up with for this list.
We're going to start with the books you already know about:
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe - I am almost 70% through this one, so it is conceivable that I might finish it before Monday, June 1. If so, well, that's one more book for May's list.
The Accidental Law Librarian by Anthony Aycock - This is slow going, so I will definitely not be finishing it by next week. I'm only reading at work, and I'm taking notes.
The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas - I finished the first of five novellas last night. The next one is only 50 pages, but after that they are quite long. Well, long for a novella: 100-120 pages.
Life After Death by Damien Echols - This is a much better memoir than I expected. It is a combination of his life before his conviction, and his journals from in prison. He came from a truly dirt poor family in Arkansas. Like, they lived for years in a house with no heat and no running water. It was like third-world-county-poor.
Now let's talk about what might be next for me.
Literature In Our Lives: Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman by Richard Jacobs - This is in my Libro.fm app as an Advanced Listening Copy for Librarians. I have decided I will be listening to this after London Falling. The print version is only 200 pages, so I don't think it will take long.
Break Room by Miye Lee - This is also an audiobook on my Libro.fm app. This is a novella of 160 pages about 8 people who have been invited to be on a reality TV show called Break Room. They are were all voted least liked colleague in their offices. Except one person is a plant. The only way to win the prize is to figure out who the mole is before time runs out.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - I am feeling the need to crawl into a large book. This bad boy has over 700 pages. Also, it is on my 10 oldest books on my shelves list. It's basically the memoir of a guy named Kvothe (no, I don't know how to say it) as he tells it to another guy in a bar. At the time of the telling, Kvothe is a notorious magician. Notorious for what? I don't know.
A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny - I feel like I want to read some more books from series. This is the next book in the Inspector Gamache series.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley - This one checks off a bingo square to read a book published in the 1970s. This barely makes it at 1979.
Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - June is Pride month, so I figure I should work in at least one queer book. This is about a romance between the son of the President of the United States and the crown prince of England.
The Divorce Colony by April White - I figure I might want to toss another nonfiction book on the list. I'm really interested in this weird phenomenon of unhappily married society women going to South Dakota to take advantage of their incredibly unrestrictive divorce laws.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower - When my husband gave me this for Christmas, I had never heard of it. Now it is all over all my social media feeds. It's really short, so I might as well just go ahead and read it.
OK that's 12 books. 3 of them are audiobooks, which brings it to 9 books. That's a doable number of books. So far in May I have finished 8 books. I could do 9, probably. No we just have to wait and see which ones I actually read!