What are we reading in July?

How did it get to be July already? I'm at work giddy with excitement over my impending vacation and big birthday this month! Oh, and this month is also my LTanniversary!

I started You're Next in the wee hours of the morning. Pretty good so far, the story is reminding me a bit of Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay style wise.

Game of thrones, Joseph Hergesheimer's Bright shawl and Beryl Markham's West with the night

Hoping to finish my June read Deathless soon and then move onto some of my July necessary reading & continue to read from the pile of books by women on the TBR

I plan to start reading Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections today.

If I can finish Lonesome Dove today, that will be great. I've also started The Scientific Sherlock Holmes, which was nominated for a non-fiction Edgar Award.

I'm reading The Three Musketeers! I think I'll understand more of it now than I did when I was 12. :)

I'm reading Imperfect Harmony and listening to The Last Child. Imperfect Harmony has me thinking nostalgically about my years in high school chorus and madrigals - how much I learned, how much fun it was, and the difference it made in my life.

I'm starting July with a classic Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage which I am loving. I also am reading Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan, the 2nd in his werewolf trilogy, and today I have been glued to the pages of Book Lust by Nancy Pearl.

I have just finished Solaris and have picked up The Septembers of Shiraz for Orange July. As for this month - I will be reading volumes VI and VII of A Dance to the Music of Time (I''m behind as I am waiting for the next books to arrive), Titus Groan for the readalong here and Baltasar and Blimunda for the readalong on the 1001 Group.

I am currently staying at my sister's, so I have a few books with me - She, Summer in Baden Baden, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Making the World Legible, Birds without Wings and Lillian's Story.

In between the reading, I do plan to eat, sleep, do some lesson observations, relearn German, read with my niece and nephew, jump on the trampoline (when they aren't looking!)....!

I'm still trying to finish the very slow moving (for me) Time and Chance by Sharon Penman which was the group read back in April. I'm also reading Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones and Into the River by Ted Dawe.

Currently reading These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer and The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson.

I had a couple of holdovers from Jun that I finished -Uncommon Grounds and Dead as a Scone and am in the middle of An Irish Country Doctor which I am really enjoying.

I am listening to The Golden Bowl. I have a four day weekend so I am hoping to get some reading done in between hiking and swimming.

I set aside Elemental for now to read Princesses Behaving Badly, an ER.

I'm taking a reading vacation today with The Jane Austen Marriage Manual by Kim Izzo.

I'm reading The Ninth Daughter, a historical mystery in 1773 Boston with Abigail Adams as sleuth. I'm still listening to The Last Child.

I'm reading Stephen King's 11/22/63.

Portrait of a lady for the Group Read. So far, liking it much better than I expected.

I've finished An Irish Country Doctor and am starting The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin

I really liked The Janissary Tree and so did my Mum. I have read the second in the series as well, and will get hold of the next 2(?) soon.

Reading The Girls of Atomic City and Perks of Being a Wallflower

I decided to put The Janissary Tree aside for now and picked up Out of the Deep I Cry instead.

I am currently reading A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn, a murder mystery set in South Africa. I am also reading a so-so travelogue, Getting Stoned With Savages which I will probably finish tonight. Next up is Daddy-Long-Legs and The Long Ships.

I'm finishing up Walking Dead Vol. 18, which is great so far, and then I'll start Jussi Adler-Olsen's Disgrace / The Absent One.

I've started Trail of Murder by Christine Andreae. I'm still listening to The Last Child and I'm slowly working my way through Sacred Scripture, Sacred War.

I have finished listening to the audiobook version of Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. Also finished the e-book Changeless by Gail Carriger - I should have heeded Eva's advice to have book three in Carriger's series at the ready! Since I didn't, I will be starting The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway this afternoon. I also started reading Andrew Lang's version of The Arabian Nights last night for my Fables and Fairy Tales category..... cannot believe I haven't The Arabian Nights stories before now!

->26 lkernagh:
LOL! It is quite huge cliffhanger at the end of Changeless, isn't it?!

> 27 - I really wasn't ready for that to happen, that is for sure! Good grief!

All on The Cove's to-read list:
Pushed to the Edge by Loren Mathis
Heir in Exile (Royals Book, #3) by Danielle Bourdon
Head Over Heels by Cindy Proctor-King
Crushing on the Enemy by Sarah Adams
Shattered Promises (Fallen Star re-make, #1) by Jessica Sorensen
Elite (Eagle Elite) by Rachel Van Dyken
Love Me in Shadows (Behind the Mask, #1) by Tess Harper
Never Too Far (Fallen Too Far) by Abbi Glines

hoping to have them all done/reviewed/posted by the end of July! (yeah, we get a bit crazy over here ;-) )

After an amazing four day weekend with lots of books finished up, I'm not sure what's next. I do know it will be one or more of these:

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruis Zafon
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
Transatlantic by Colum McCann
The Black Count by Tom Reiss

After finishing the second in the Department Q series, I remembered just how much I like the characters, so I'm now on to the third: Redemption / A Conspiracy of Faith.

finished spook and started titus groan I tried to start don quixote but didn't get past the first adventure and am thinking that having tried to read it more than twice in the past and failed I should officially give up on it!

I just started Snow and the audio of The Devotion of Suspect X. i'm still working on Sacred Scripture, Sacred War.

My main read right now is TransAtlantic and I hope to finish it today or tomorrow.

Started reading Moranthology on the bus and have had to suppress several wicked grins so far.

Started Transatlantic and The Three Musketeers

I've finsihed Out of the Deep I Cry and am going back to The Janissary Tree.

I'm reading Blame by Michelle Huneven.

Valley of the moon by Jack London and Two under the Indian sun by Jon and Rumer Godden.

I finished Hammered by Kevin Hearne and have started Tricked which I'm not liking nearly as much for some reason. Could just be me and my messed up life and not the book at all.

I am about halfway through The Long Ships which although it's going slowly, I am loving. I have also started Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter for the July AwardCat.

I'm taking time out today to read The Case of the Missing Marquess before I continue with Snow and Sacred Scripture, Sacred War. I'm still listening to The Devotion of Suspect X.

It's too hot to think much about what I'm reading, so I'm rereading Death at Buckingham Palace, by C.C. Benison.

>43 rabbitprincess: That one's on my list for next weekend!

I'm at the end of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, but haven't decided what I think yet since there's a bit of a twist that's been revealed that I didn't really appreciate - I still have an hour and a half left of the audio, though, so it might change. I've also started Laidlaw for the AwardCAT and Doctor Who in Time and Space for the Early Reviewers.

I've finally finished Princesses Behaving Badly and I'm trying to finish The Ocean at the End of the Lane before embarking on The Long Ships.

Finished titus groan and started instruction manual for swallowing and since I left that in the car yesterday also started at the mouth of the river of bees

I'm reading Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding. I like it -- she's sassy!

I love Miss Manners!

Bjace, I've never really read anything of hers before, but I like her style!

She is in our paper every Monday. She is very down-to-earth and never pulls her punches.

Finished Miss Manners already! :) Now it's on to Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret.

I'm reading two crime novels, Castle Freeman, Jr.'s All That I Have, which is about a sheriff in rural Vermont who reminds me a little of Longmire, and Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace, which is set in Yorkshire and is not only Noir, but relentlessly so.

I just finished Wet Grave set in New Orleans. It's got murder, a slave revolt, and a hurricane. I'm not sure what I'm going to start next.

#53 - I'll be looking forward to seeing what you think of Nineteen Seventy-Four, I found it a little too relentless. I have the rest of the quartet on my shelves so will be at least trying the next one.

I am currently reading Walking With Ghosts by John Baker, a British mystery and a favorite series. I am also reading The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin which is really holding at attention by it's slow but creepy buildup.

I just finished Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella and am currently enjoying The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen.

I finished The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth last night in work (don't go looking for the review, I haven't written it yet). So tonight I'm going to start on the biography I've chosen. It's something different to either of the two options I'd originally proposed but his recent passing has made me want to find out more about his life. Therefore I've picked up Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend.

Just started In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff.

I've just started The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James for the group read. I'm also reading Mrs. Kimble, which is my first book by Jennifer Haigh. I now see why she's so esteemed; she can write.

I've finished The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin for an Alpha and Award Cat and am currently reading A Pig in Provence for my Random Cat book and Knit the Season

I'm in the middle of World War Z and it's brilliant. And, as far I can tell from the movie trailer, has pretty much nothing in common with the film.

O Pioneers by Willa Cather, which I'm enjoying very much.

I'm reading three books at the moment (unusually) waiting for robert capa, at the mouth of the river of bees and instruction manual for swallowing

I've got about 20 pages to go in Snow. Next up will be Bundu by Chris Barnard. I'm listening to the audio of 1222 and still working on Sacred Scripture, Sacred War.

I finished the wonderful book, The Long Ships and have started Behind the Beautiful Forevers which is a narrative nonfiction taking place in the slums of Mumbai.

Today I zipped through Basil of Baker Street, which shares characters and a premise with the Walt Disney movie The Great Mouse Detective, but not much else. For the rest of this evening I might read some more of Deadwood, which I'm reading for my Westerns category.

I've finished A Pig in Provence and Knit the Season and think I might get started on a book for August - The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart.

Just started the golden notebook which has an interesting structure, bit of chunkster though so may be reading for some time

I finished the book about Mumbai and have started A Lady and Her Monsters which tells about all the people and theories that influenced Mary Shelley's story.

I finished The Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pineiro this morning and have just started This Must Be the Place by Anna Winger, which is set in Berlin, which is as close as I could get to Munich, for this month's RandomCAT challenge.