Hey Bookish Peeps!
I know, I get a tardy slip for getting this out late this month, but I have a good excuse …
I got a puppy 😊! Meet Odin our newest family member and full of energy corgi puppy!
He is fitting in really well with our 2 other dogs which is good because he was not planned! And of course, he has been keeping us up at night with his puppy powers. We have to run around a bunch that last hour before bed time to help tucker him out. On top of all the other running and play sessions we get in throughout the day. Odin has made me realize that even when I thought I’ve been doing good at staying in decent shape, it was just a lie. Keeping up with this little bottle rocket has been insane! *shouting to the side lines* Bring out the cooling towels and bottles of water! We’ve got a freaking athlete in the family now! Thank goodness for fenced in yards! The herding dogs are a whole different breed than what I’m use to dealing with. We have a mastiff mix and an anatolian shepherd mix. Both of which are more guard things and sit to watch mindsets. Odin is going to keep us young and moving for a long time! But I love the little rugrat and it feels like he’s always been around at this point.
Other than that, I don’t have much for news. I’m excited that summer is basically here. Perhaps not as stoked for the humidity that comes along with, but can’t have one without the other so alls good. Hope all of you have had a great start to June and that everything has been sunny in your lives. Chat with everyone next month!
Side note: if you too love Corgi’s, I super suggest a wonderful cozy mystery series by Mildred Abbott called Cozy Corgi Mysteries. The first one is titled Cruel Candy. They are just precious and the main character has a corgi named Watson who is just amazing! It’s also a really good series for anyone who just likes cozy mysteries in general. The corgis in it are just a massive plus in my world.
Thanks you guys!
Reading Theme: Animals in the Title
Call my crazy, but since getting a puppy last weekend animals have been on my mind. So I thought it was only fair that the books I read throughout this month show up in at least the titles. I know, what the title says isn’t always in the book. A girl can hope though right? Let try and find as many books – that look interesting to read – that have any type of animal in their titles.
Happy Reading Everyone!
My Reading List for June 2024:
Master of Crows By Grace Draven
What would you do to win your freedom?
This is the question that sets bondwoman, Martise of Asher, on a dangerous path. In exchange for her freedom, she bargains with her masters, the mage-priests of Conclave, to spy on the renegade sorcerer, Silhara of Neith. The priests want Martise to expose the sorcerer’s treachery and turn him over to Conclave justice. A risky endeavor, but one she accepts without hesitation–until she falls in love with her intended target.
Silhara of Neith, Master of Crows, is a desperate man. The god called Corruption invades his mind, seducing him with promises of limitless power if he will help it gain dominion over the world. Silhara struggles against Corruption’s influence and searches for ways to destroy the god. When Conclave sends Martise as an apprentice to help him, he knows she’s a spy. Now he fights a war on two fronts -against the god who would possess him and the apprentice who would betray him.
Mage and spy search together for a ritual that will annihilate Corruption, but in doing so, they discover secrets about each other that may damn them both. Silhara must decide if his fate, and the fate of nations, is worth the soul of the woman he has come to love, and Martise must choose continued enslavement or freedom at the cost of a man’s life. And love.
White Horse Black Nights By Evie Marceau
We still worship the sleeping fae, though their magic only remains within a few of us.
Locked away for twelve years, Sabine Darrow’s only friends are animals she communicates with using magic. Now, sold as a bride to a villainous high lord, her greatest fear is trading one prison for another. But a potential escape lies in the form of her gruff yet achingly handsome guard, whose loyalty she is determined to break.
A huntsman with heightened senses, Basten “Wolf” Bowborn has more important things to do than transport his master’s new bride. With ancient creatures reawakening along the kingdom’s border wall, he is torn between his duty and his desire to investigate—until a forbidden attraction becomes an unyielding obsession.
Welcome to Astagnon—a kingdom of cruel games and corrupted courts, where the only thing more dangerous than the secrets slumbering underground is falling for the one person you can’t have.
Marked by The Panther By Zoey Indiana
Jaden was dead… Until Piper strode into his life.
Disgraced from shifter black ops, Jaden struggles to find purpose. Especially after his battle buddy drops the perfect business endeavor he never wanted in his lap, and the first job goes awry. At the worst possible moment, his mate enters his life like a wrecking ball.
Despite founding Mateless Mates for human females, Piper feels like she’ll never find her fated mate. Almost at her wit’s end, she can’t commit to either world. When she stumbles into a speed dating event, she throws caution to the wind and claims her mate. But did she make an awful mistake?
As a secret organization threatens to rip the shifter world apart, they join their friends in a struggle to survive.
Owl in The Oak Tree By Penny Walker Veraar
She’s the key witness to a drive-by shooting. But what happens when her duty to justice threatens the most important thing in her world—her family?
Reagan Ramsey—mother and middle school teacher extraordinaire—knows how to hold it together in the face of adversity. In the aftermath of her husband’s death from cancer, Reagan is doing everything she can to help her two children process their father’s passing while trying to sort out what a new normal looks like for their family. The loss proves especially difficult for her seven-year-old daughter, Lizzie, who has a dual diagnosis of Down syndrome and autism and is nonverbal. Lizzie’s father had been her protector, a hands-on parent since the day she was born, and in his absence, her behavior becomes increasingly challenging as she struggles to express her feelings of loss and confusion.
But when a random encounter puts Reagan in the cross fire of a drive-by shooting—an event that shakes the foundation of her community—she suddenly becomes an involuntary key witness to a murder that turns her world, and her sense of safety, upside down. Trapped between protecting her family and helping to bring the killer to justice, Reagan’s sense of right and wrong is tested like never before.
As fear and shame threaten to break Reagan, she must learn to rely on her own conscience and her community for the strength to put her life on the line for those she loves. A piercing examination of how grief and gun violence reshape families and communities ,Owl in the Oak Tree is a suspenseful story of love and redemption.
Case of the One-Eyed Tiger By Jeffery M. Poole
When a shocking murder shatters the tranquility of a sleepy Oregon town, and a priceless sculpture turns up missing, all fingers soon start pointing at new resident Zack Anderson. Armed with a determination to clear his name, Zack sets out to solve the case with the help of his feisty canine companion, a corgi named Sherlock who has an uncanny ability to sniff out clues. With evidence mounting against him, can Zack and Sherlock identify the killer and locate the missing sculpture before he ends up in the doghouse?
