Kerry's (CDVicarage) Thread for 2026 - year 16 - part 2.

Last year was a good reading year for me in terms of quantity, in terms of quality all my five star reads were re-reads but there were some 4½ star books and plenty of 4 star books. Amongst the three and two star reads there were some disappointments, sometimes because I had expected more but sometimes because I just didn’t ‘get’ them. This was often because of cultural differences – I’m British so many of the nuances of books set in America and Japan escaped me.
My user name reflects my address when I joined LibraryThing and, although I've moved house twice since then I haven't changed it. I now live in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire, famous these days as the birthplace of Harry Styles. It feels fairly amazing that this is my sixteenth year in this group and I shall mark my nineteenth Thingaversary in May. When I imported my Excel file into LibraryThing it was just for more efficient cataloguing, I had no interest in the social side at all. Well that soon changed!

July:

128. The Correspondent, 2nd July
129. The Skylight, 3rd July
130. Joy Street, 6th July
131. Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain, 6th July
132. Lucia's Crusade, 6th July
133. The Hunger Games, 7th July
134. Queen Lucia, 9th July
135. Lucia in London, 10th July
136. The Art of a Lie, 12th July
137. The Foundling, read by Phyllida Nash, 15th July
138. Nine Lives to Murder, 16th July
139. Slightly Foxed 86: Good Books and Artichoke Bottoms Summer 2025, 17th July

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

A very simple set-up and I hope to have a finished title to add soon...

Happy new thread, Kerry! I hope this summer brings you lots of good reading.

Happy new one, Kerry.

Happy new thread, Kerry.

Happy new thread!

Only two titles finished this week/month but I have two or three nearly finished:

The Correspondent, finished 2nd July.

The Skylight, finished 3rd July.

I always enjoy seeing what you've been reading.

>15 thornton37814:, thank you, Lori!

I've finished seven titles this week - it's been to hot to do anything but sit and read - but one was only a short story:

Joy Street, finished 6th July.

Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain, finished 6th July.
This was a long term - over several weeks - read.

Lucia's Crusade, finished 6th July.

The Hunger Games, finished 7th July.

Queen Lucia, finished 9th July.

Lucia in London, finished 10th July.

The Art of a Lie, finished 12th July.