My reading choices for the Summer of Books and Yarn challenge
It’s been an odd sort of summer in many ways and I’m still not quite sure how I feel about it all. It’s been a time of highs and lows. Some wonderful times spent relaxing as a family, and time spent with other family members. Coupled with a lot of driving around the country and a lot of emotions as we deal with grief and inevitable upheaval that happens when people die.
I’ve been really grateful to have the time to spend with my boys, especially as we are now staring University open days in the face, and I’ve really loved both taking part in and running the Summer of Books and Yarn challenge.
No-one was more surprised than me to find me blitzing my way through all 6 books that I had planned - although losing my knitting whilst on holiday in Greece (it’s a long story and I eventually found it) certainly helped me with my reading target.
It’s been lovely to see all the great feedback in the Everyday Knitter Facebook group as well - it seems that I’m not alone in having a ball with it. And there have been lots of calls to have a repeat challenge, maybe even to make it a seasonal event and I’m definitely putting that on my to do list for the next few months.
There were so many good book titles shared that I promised I would do a little roundup of some of the popular book titles, and true to my word, you can find a list below of the titles that seemed to crop up repeatedly in people’s reading lists and which got good reviews. I haven’t hyperlinked the titles as everyone has their own favourite place where they like to buy or borrow books.
A thousand ships by Natalie Haynes
How the light gets in by Louise Penny
The salt path by Raynor Winn
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
Tidelands by Phillipa Gregory
The Thursday murder club by Richard Osman
Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
The miniaturist by Jessie Burton
River Kings by Cat Jarman (non fiction)
The midnight library by Matt Haigh
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
Endeavour by Peter Moore (non fiction)
If you aren’t already a member of the Everyday Knitter Facebook group do please come over and say hi. We are a really friendly bunch, I promise and if you are interested in another reading challenge that will be the best place to follow along with it.
