Fair.

#bookspin Sad to say, I DNF'd this. It looked exactly the sort of old-fashioned, young woman having adventures story I liked, but it didn't feel... wholesome. I didn't like the narrator or want to spend time with her.

Rather fascinated by this foreign language cover. Are they in a sit-com?

“Love was rather a terrible thing, I decided next morning, remembering the undercurrents of the evening before. Not perhaps my cup of tea.“

(I'm reading ahead because my library book expires in a few days!)

“I'm very fond of going to church, but I don't like doing anything before breakfast, you know. That's always seemed to me to be the great snag about religion, don't you agree?“

“The worst of earning one's living, Basil, is that it leaves so little time over to live in.“

This book has a footnote explaining what carbon paper is.

I feel 100 years old.

Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.

Updated list for July.

My #bookspin book was _Promise of Summer_ by Louisa Rawlings, which was enjoyable in an old skool romance way.

#doublespin was _the Iron Hunt_ by Marjorie Liu, chosen by random number generator from my library wish list, and I just wasn't in the mood for it and DNF'd. I'm not the big on urban fantasy.

I did read an extra book from my list, _Beautiful Mornin'_, which is one I owned and am happy to get off the shelf!

I think #FurrowedMiddlebrow brought this to my attention and I just loved it -- more than D.E. Stevenson's similar “Mrs. Tim,“ books, to be honest. Narrator Henrietta would be a huge hit on Twitter.

#bookspin Wow, this was... a LOT. In some ways very typical of historical romance from the time period and in other ways, quite surprising.

I think maybe you need to be as much in love with Oseman's characters as she is to enjoy her books, and sadly, this time I really wasn't.

When I first saw the cover, I thought all three of them were reading books! -- but even at closer glance it still looked very cute. Which it is, but also with depth and tenderness to it.

Ready! Defekt was an extra read for May.

I had to give up on the audiobook; the narrator keeps slipping into Valley Girl. 🙄

I'll try it in print, but I'm not sanguine. I inevitably seem to love Solomon's adult books and hate her YA. I guess this would be technically NA, since it's set in college but it's definitely on the YA side.

I'm screaming like I'm in a movie theater: “Stop! IT'S A TRAP!“

THE HORROR!!!!!

Super cute collection, though her anti-ereader stances makes me want to lure her to to dark side. ;-)

I just noticed that the main character of this story basically goes from being a delivery boy to an otherwordly... delivery boy. I wonder if it's a hat tip to “Futurama.“

An astonishing compendium of little known anti-semitic history that demonstrates how the common cultural narratives about Jewish people, even the most seemingly sensitive and sympathetic, do little to stop anti-semitism and might even encourage it.

I listened to the audiobook, which is fantastic. Xe Sands has an emotional resonance to her voice that was perfect for the text.

This is James Baldwin, reviewing Langston Hughes in *1956*. Plus ça change, plus c‘est la même chose.

My second #bookspin book, a library book. I checked this out on a whim and read it in bits. It's a pretty interesting historical record. I especially enjoyed the reviews of all the “trashy“ books and writers, like Jackie Collins, because the reviewers wrote with such relish.

It's such a page turner I'll probably keep reading but... it's a cruel book.

I have such a book hangover from this! I'm not ready to start the sequel and nothing else seems worth reading.

#bookspin : A graphic novel.

A gripping personal story about a German emigre trying to discover the degree of guilt of her relatives who were Nazis. Illustrated with drawings and collage art of historical documents. I found it hard to follow at times, and had mixed feelings about discussions of how the German people suffered after the war. Her encounters with people who are basically Holocaust fans are also very unnerving.

My #bookspin for May. I hope I'm doing this right! @TheAromaOfBooks