Library Book Photo for July

8 books of crime fiction that I'd reserved turned up all at once on the mobile library last week- Not cancelled due to excess heat this time....thank goodness.

I'm hopeful that most of these are readable, but there are a couple of new authors there ( I've already tried the BLCC by Joseph Shearing and found I didn't like it) and two books of short stories which are usually quickly read. Which might mean reading from my shelves before the mobile is round again toward the end of August.............depends how hot it is.................forecast is for high 20's ℃ or low 30's℃ this week again and into August, it's just so very odd.

I've still got 20 books reserved and waiting, either  for the library to get them into stock and/or for my turn on waiting lists. Several will arrive by the August van visit. What is really annoying is that some were so slow to be bought by the library that my reservation had 'expired' before they even had them in stock - and I've had to re-reserve. It means I went from nearly at the top of the waiting list to the end! I've now found out how to make sure that doesn't happen again.

 Last months library books were these two photos below and I read some but abandoned many for various reasons - usually they just didn't appeal once I got started. 

Details of all the books I read were copied from the July books read list onto last Wednesdays post  or on the separate 2026 page. I read one from my shelves, picked up another from library shelves when I took some back and another for 50p from the books For Sale library shelf.

The Tree Lore book didn't have any mention of  Horse Chestnut Trees to add to info for my Following a Tree posts and I flicked through Tonics and Teas but nothing appealed. Evergreen was yet another book I just skimmed through, it was about 'finding joy in the seasons'............. I wasn't in the right frame of mind!