Happy Saturday! Here’s how we’re wrapping up June:

Lara: My friend Kylie and I have long been fans of the crime novelist PD James. For years we’ve been threatening to do a podcast on her books. We’ve finally decided to give it a go. I’m reading book one, Cover Her Face, ( A | BN | K | AB ) in the Adam Dalgliesh series. Her writing has the feel of a well-maintained clock. Not the staccato beat of an alarm clock but the sophisticated tones of a mantle clock with chimes on the quarter hour. It’s writing to savour and revel in.

Sarah: That’s very cool – congrats!

Elyse: I’m reading Six Wild Crowns which is a fantasy based on the wives of Henry VIII.

Sarah: I am listening to Homemaker by Ruthie Knox and Anna Mare. I have now lined up 3 different projects and puttering chores I will do so I can listen to it more.

Shana: I’m reading This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara. ( A | BN | K | AB ) I thought I wasn’t a fan of romantasy or dark romance and this is both. But I like it so far. The writing is gorgeous!

Susan: I read a manga that used the words “legendary snatch” way too many times so maybe I will never read again.

(Q: How many times is too many?
A: They used it more than once!!!)

In “books that I actually finished” news: I just finished Deathly Anniversary by Ishikawa Oreo, which was nothing like what I expected! It turns out it’s about a woman finally learning to assert herself after finding out her perfect life isn’t what she thought! There just had to be attacks with a hammer to get there!

Whatcha reading? Let us know in the comments!