June Reading Wrap Up

but yeah, just really enjoyed this, thought it was a very engaging collection, , with a lot of powerful poems.

This is a short novel by Diana Melly Craig, a Victorian author who I really love and I thought this was perfect. just really beautiful, elegant, solemn, but also sort of charming and I just loved this a lot. This is my favorite thing I read in June I would say and I thought it was wonderful.

In general, I'm very happy to have a long Sarah Waters book, because I love her writing, and she writes so atmospherically with such like well-observed detail, and there's just great characters.

I'll probably read in August, but I'm really looking forward to rereading that one because that's one of my favorites.

I thought this was so good. I really, really enjoyed it. It's very well written.

I thought Once the Deed Is Done was a really, really interesting novel with some really powerful moments and a really, really interesting look at sort of the very immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

and I just thought this was really sweet, really powerful, , very charming but also like complicated and deep and looking at some very serious issues, , and I just thought this was excellent. Also just really enjoyed the art style.

The first, like maybe 40% of the book, is a very zoomed-in, detailed look at the two Roberts falling in love at art school. and I loved that section very, very much. And then the second half of the book, we move through time much faster, almost with sort of little vignettes here and there, dipping in and out of their lives. and I didn't love that style quite as much.

Unlike The Well-Beloved, which is my least favorite Thomas Hardy novel. I knew it was my least favorite Thomas Hardy novel. I knew I didn't like it, but as I had read all of the rest of Thomas Hardy's books in publication order for this read-along, and as The Well-Beloved is very short, I thought I would just reread it anyway and slip it in.