Junes Reading Chronicle: Embarking on a Literary Journey of Challenges and Discoveries
Greetings, fellow book enthusiasts! As the summer sun blazed overhead here in Devon. I embarked on a thrilling literary journey throughout the month of June, I was determined to conquer my reading challenge with unwavering zeal. From the nerve racking realms of Psychological Fiction to the gripping depths of war, my voracious appetite for books knew no bounds. So, gather around, for it is time to unveil the triumphs, the surprises, and the unforgettable tales that filled my June reading adventure.
Welcome to the much-anticipated update on my reading challenge for June! I hope you are enjoying whatever reading challenge you set yourself this year.
Love Alis x
June 2023
21. Psychological fiction – The Last Act by Brad Parks
Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Psychological.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 2020
Format: Paperback I purchased myself
Star Rating: 4**** I liked it a lot and recommend
ABout Book: Actor Tommy Jump isn't getting the roles he once did. But as he prepares to give up the stage he gets a call from the FBI, with an offer too lucrative to refuse. For $300,000 all Tommy has to do is spend six months in prison, acting as a failed bank robber and befriend a fellow inmate who has information which could take down a Mexican drug cartel. But when the stakes are this high, does Tommy have what it takes to get away with this audacious last act?
22. About royalty - Fields of Glory by Michael Jecks
Genre: Historical, Suspense, Thriller, Adventure
Series: 1 of 3 in the Vintener Trilogy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 2015
Format: Hardback I purchased myself
Star Rating: 4**** I liked it a lot and would recommend
About Book: The year is 1346 and King Edward III is restless. Despite earlier victories his army has still not achieved a major breakthrough and the French crown remains intact. Determined to bring France under English rule and the French army to its knees he has regrouped and planned a new route of attack.
And on the beaches of Normandy his men now mass, ready to march through France to victory. But the French are nowhere to be seen. Edward knows that the worst thing he could do would be to take the battle to the French, where they will have the advantage and so he sets up camp near a small hill at Crecy and waits.
23. Author recommended to you – Everything is Beautiful by Eleanor Ray
Genre: Domestic, Mystery, Romance
Publisher: Little Brown
Date Published: 2021
Format: Paperback I purchased myself
Star rating: 5***** I loved it and highly recommend
About Book: When Amy Ashton's world fell apart eleven years ago, she started a collection.
Just a few keepsakes of happier times: some honeysuckle to remind herself of the boy she loved, a chipped china bird, an old terracotta pot . . . Things that others might throw away, but to Amy, represent a life that could have been.
Now her house is overflowing with the objects she loves - soon there'll be no room for Amy at all. But when a family move in next door, a chance discovery unearths a mystery, and Amy's carefully curated life begins to unravel. If she can find the courage to face her past, might the future she thought she'd lost still be hers for the taking?
24. Over 500 pages long – The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling
Genre: Humour
Publisher: Sphere
Date Published: 2013
Format: Paperback I purchased myself
Star rating: 4**** I liked it a lot and recommend
About Book: When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
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