What I Read in May & June…am I slacking on my own niche?

 

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So, I had a total reading slump in June. For some reason this always seems to happen to me after finishing a series. Even with ones I spent half the time hating, as soon as I close the last page of that last book, I have a few days or a few weeks where I can’t get into anything else at all. What I did manage to read, or am still currently reading, happens to be pretty traditional fiction…

Anyway, let’s first look at May, when I was still right to form:

• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton (books #10-30)
• Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer’s Guide & Anthology by Sean Prentiss & Jessica Hendry Nelson
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• Enemy (#Vulture Hollow MC #1) by K.A. Merikan
• Maiden Lane (Coming in Third #2) by Jess Savage
• The Space Between Worlds (Ashtown #1) by Micaiah Johnson

June, as previously stated, was a reading disaster. I had hoped to read some queer fiction for Pride Month, but ended up only reading one book as such. I seemed to be in the mood for poetry…

• RED DOC> (Red #2) by Anne Carson (note: poetry/novel in verse)
• House of Incest by Anaïs Nin (note: poetry/novel in verse)
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History by Angela Carter
• Sylvia Plath: Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy
• RIFQA  (note: poetry) by Mohammed El-Kurd

Have you read any of these books? What did you read this May-June? Let me know!