Here we are again at the beginning of yet another month, I can’t believe how quickly this year is going. I wish the weather gods would remember that it’s actually May now, it’s still cold and we have no soft winds and the darling buds are being blasted. Anyway, it was a fairly good month for reading, probably because I only got out to the garden a couple of times for a short while.

I managed twelve books, not bad, but only one is non-fiction, the Maya Angelou autobiography. I did plan to read some vintage crime but I don’t think I have any unread in the house. Most of these books have been from my own bookshelves.

1. Jo of the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

2. The Big Six by Arthur Ransome

3. Hue and Cry by Shirley McKay (from the library)

4. Fate and Fortune by Shirley McKay (from the library)

5. Mr Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim

6. The Sound of Coaches by Leon Garfield

7. Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce

8. Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (yet to be reviewed) (from the library)

9. Ordinary Families by E.Arnot Robertson (Classics Club Spin)

10. King of Shadows by Susan Cooper (yet to be reviewed)

11. We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea by Arthur Ransome

12. Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner (Netgalley)