May Reading List

These are the books I finished in May.  Library books are marked with asterisks. 

All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren*

The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow, Leah Weis*

Double Whammy, Carl Hiaasen*

The Unmothers, Leslie J. Anderson

Home to Harmony, Philip Gulley.

Return to Sender, Craig Johnson*

Reading All the King's Men when it wasn't assigned to me gave me a little more time to enjoy it, but I did read through it fairly quickly.  It was incredible.  The prose!  The perspective!  The description! I loved it.  I was running back to read passages every spare moment I had.  

I saw The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow at the library one afternoon and picked it up on a whim.  It was fine. Some of it was entertaining and interesting and some of it was...too farfetched for me, even for a book with supernatural elements.  Oh well.

I checked out Double Whammy because I think Carl Hiaasen is kind of fun and quirky and because I really enjoyed Season 1 of  R. J. Decker, which is based on Double Whammy.  I liked the show better.

The Unmothers was an advanced reader copy I got to pick out of a pile as a prize for completing a scavenger hunt at Wordsworth Bookstore during last year's book crawl.  I finally got around to it and I think I enjoyed it?  I'm not a big folk horror reader, but I liked that they kept some of the unexplainable stuff vague.  The ending was satisfying. 

Home to Harmony was sweet and gentle.  If the Mitford series is a bit too high-strung for your tastes, the little vignettes here will help you settle down before bedtime.  I really did enjoy this.

Return to Sender most certainly is another Walt Longmire novel in the series of Walt Longmire mysteries.  I know I read it, and I could probably tell you how the plot loosely went.  But it's just too over the top, and not in a fun Hiaasen way.  And maybe my patience is limited because I had already read too much books that were just too ridiculous.  Or maybe Johnson keeps writing the same episode, I mean novel, ever since the TV series went to Netflix.  Or maybe I just read too much Robert Penn Warren and now I want (very unfairly) for everyone else to be just as good. I'm still going to keep reading every one of these that rolls off the assembly line.