Even though the first week of June has already passed, I still want to post my monthly TBR as I didn’t start tackling it. I again will look at my The Storygraph’s “up Next” queue. Additionally, I will list three books that are this month’s possibilities, to keep the mood reader in me at bay. I often read more book sin summer than in winter, so let’s see how this will work out!
In the queue
James by Percival Everett has seen multiple TBRs by now and I really was about to pick it up in May. However, it was a tie between this and Lucinda Riley’s The Midnight Rose, another book on that monthly TBR. I ended up choosing the latter one and therefore this novel has been taken the backburner once again. I hope to finish it before I create my summer TBR though!
Emily Henry is really a hit or miss for me. Some books have been a hit, but more often they have been a miss though. However, Great Big Beautiful Life sounds really different from all the other books this author has published in recent years, so I might as well check it out. Of course I’m generally curious too.
In general, slower books don’t tend to work for me that well. However, the chance is slightly bigger they might do so in summer. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt has been on my TBR for months and I believe I should be in the right headspace for a book with such a slow plot. Let’s try to knock it off in June.
Since 2022, we can find a newly published book by Carley Fortune in summer. This year it’s One Golden Summer, a companion to Every Summer After. Although I haven’t rated any book by this author higher than 3 stars and I can see through the formula, these books are still enjoyable and relaxing for blazing hot summer days.
Each year, we get a whole lot of new romances thrown at our TBRs in summer. Katelyn Doyle’s Just Some Stupid Love Story is a leftover from last summer. I haven’t read it because somehow it doesn’t speak too much to me anymore after thinking about it. Reviews aren’t that great either unfortunately, many people seem to have issues with it that are relatable to me. I have the ebook though, so I will either knock it off, or end up DNF’ing it.
Possibilities
I realized that there aren’t any pride books on my TBR and that’s not how it should be. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender is one of my priority reads though and I hope to finally pick it up after five years.
I have never read any book by Ann Liang, but I have 2 of them in my collection now. One of them is A Song to Drown Rivers. Depending on my mood, I’ll either pick up this one or This Time It’s Real. We will find out in July, won’t we?
Last but not least, I hope to read What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon. This book gets a lot of attention here at the moment. Not that strange when considering it’s set in Amsterdam. I wasn’t too sure whether I wanted to read this at all, because I wasn’t fully convinced by other books I read by this author. I wonder how foreign people look at Amsterdam and the Dutch way of living though, so let’s try and find out this month.
What book do you hope to see a review for by me in June?
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