{"id":17074,"date":"2022-06-15T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=17074"},"modified":"2022-06-15T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:50:20","slug":"the-books-of-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/17074","title":{"rendered":"The Books of May"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>I read an surprisingly wide variety of genres this week. And it was 2019 the last time I read so few books in a single month. But I did a fair amount of hiking and traveling in May, so I’m going to chalk it up to that (even if it isn’t that).<\/p>\n

I’d also like to note THREE new release reads this month! And they were all enjoyable! (That’s actually not unexpected.) And only TWO rereads! (one of which was an audio book, and I can rarely listen to books I haven’t read before.)<\/p>\n

I’m also slowly going through Joanne Fluke’s Hannah Swensen series–mostly borrowing from the library, because they’re nice, but they’re not fantastic.<\/p>\n

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Non Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Identity, and the Meaning of Sex<\/em><\/a> (2020) Angela Chen 8\/10
\nWomen in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine<\/em><\/a> (2021) Olivia Campbell<\/p>\n

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Historical Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Perilous Perspective<\/em><\/a> (2022) Anna Lee Huber<\/a> (Lady Darby Mystery) 8\/10<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> <\/p>\n

Cozy Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vanishing Type<\/em><\/a> (2022) Ellery Adams<\/a> (Secret, Book, & Scone Society) 7.5\/10
\nHannah Swensen series by Joanne Fluke<\/a>
\nStrawberry Shortcake Murder<\/em><\/a> (2001); 7\/10; Blueberry Muffin Murder<\/em><\/a> (2002); Lemon Meringue Pie Murder<\/em><\/a> (2003)<\/p>\n

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Science Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Systems Red<\/em><\/a> (2017) Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries) 10\/10<\/p>\n

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Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wrong Number, Right Woman<\/em><\/a> (2020) Jae<\/a> 7\/10<\/p>\n

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Audio Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dark Queen, Audio Edition<\/em><\/a> (2018) Faith Hunter<\/a> narrated by Khristine Hvam (Jane Yellowrock) 8\/10<\/p>\n

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\"Amongst<\/a>Supernatural Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amongst Our Weapons<\/em><\/a> (2022) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> (Rivers of London) 8\/10<\/p>\n

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I read an surprisingly wide variety of genres this week. And it was 2019 the last time I read so few books in a single month. But I did a fair amount of hiking and traveling in May, so I’m going to chalk it up to that (even if it isn’t that). I’d also like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-4ro","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}