#FallTreasures
For a month that went wonky at the end due to crazy COVID work times, I still managed to finish 9 books & I am pretty happy with that. 🤗 All four cation, all women authors, 8 print &/or ebook & 1 audiobook. 5 for blog parties or book tours, a reread of a favorite—Persuasion for #PemberLittens #chapteraday with haiku summaries & Silence for the Dead for #sundaybuddyread & 2 just because. Overall, a good reading month! 📚📚📚
No one takes collecting series of books more seriously than my husband. I‘ll be posting a few photos of a fraction of his books in a fraction of his shelves (why we had to add a library for him above our guest house).
#Booked2020 #Winter #Finishinaday #ReadingEurope2020 #Italy
The author in the link below sings Inspector Salvo Montalbano‘s praises.(Well deserved!)The food,the commentary on Sicily‘s politics, mafia, crime,social justice, the sea, the heat, the landscape, city life, relationships, sardonic humor,the imaginative murder mysteries, shocking twist- this is book #2 for me & I have fallen in love.
https://www.pulcetta.com/2007/07/montalbano.html
#Booked2020 #Finishinaday #winter
#ReadingEurope2020 #Italy #coffeeandbooks
Today‘s lunch, broccoli cheddar soup & croutons, coffee, & a book.
Altogether of the 18 books I planned to read in August, I finished 16 of them, the ones marked TBR are the two I‘ve started but yet to finish.
In total in August I read 34 books and read 14,436 Pages - the most pages and number of books I have read in any month. August is my most productive reading month so won‘t break this record anytime soon. Previous best was in August 2018
pickAnother audiobook finished. Number 10 in the Montalbano series. Salvo can't stand the heat this August. He's found a dead body in a room under the house Livia's friends are staying in. So he's in hot water with her. And finding the killer means getting to know the dead women's sister. My heart hurts for Salvo at the end.
5⭐
#SeriesRead @TheSpineView
Totally devastated! 😢 Love the Montalbano books, and only one left to read. 🙈 A wonderful author, if you have not read the Montalbano books I thoroughly recommend it.
RIP Andrea. And thanks 💔
May have to restart the series from the beginning in tribute.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48681253
pickThis was my #LetterC for #LitsyAtoZ (in translation). It was a funny little cozy mystery with several odd twists and turns, and I quite enjoyed it! Breezy, short and entertaining, the perfect palate cleanser or read for those times when it‘s hard to concentrate. I plant to read others in this series.
so-soStarted and finished during the Advocacy Summit (so, perhaps a bit distracted and definitely adrenaline-fueled and exhausted). It seemed like a decent enough mystery, though I'm not sure how I feel about the detective's personal habits. I may try another one in the series in the future.
I nominate Inspector Montalbano and his girlfriend Livia as the worst couple. Every interaction seems to end in a spat and while initially it looked like they enjoyed quarrelling, as the series has progressed it has looked more and more like they are stuck in a relationship which makes neither of them happy but they don't feel able to end. It has started to make me sad. #lovehate
Just tallied up my August reads on goodreads. I felt like I had a ton of bad books (1&2 Stars), But I guess I balanced them out with good ones well enough. I might try to squeak in one more book tomorrow.. but so far 25 books
3 ⭐️
8 ⭐️ ⭐️
4 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
7 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
3 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
#Aprella
Inspector Montalbano does a lot of eating sometimes even #DinnerForTwo
First of all, where did August go????? Actually, August is one of my least favorite months because it's usually ridiculously hot and September is my favorite month so it feels like it drags. No offense to any August people, I love my Leo's, early Virgo's and late Cancerians. Any-who... I guess I did alright on the reading front, which is probably the only reason my kids are still alive. School started just in the nick of time. 😱😀
pickA very pleasant read. Good to read about summer heat when there's none to be had here in London. I found some of the plot elements implausible but the pace and dialogue were great.
It's the last day of July (well at least it is here in Singapore) so I'd like to thank you all for taking part in #jubilantjuly
Hope you'll join in #anditsaugust (where did the year go?)
La vampa d'agosto | 
