I don't see that anyone started a thread yet so . . . here you go!  What are you reading this month? 

I'm still listening to Hamnet and reading My Name is Mary Sutter.  Enjoying both! 

Wow, Shelley, you beat me by a mere minute in creating this thread! Great minds think alike!

I'm starting All Quiet on the Western Front. Was not aware it was originally written in German, do bonus points that it fits the "translated into English" category for the challenge.

I finished Rasputin's Daughter.  All in all, not my favorite.  I love that time period, but his style of writing was to have the characters ask themselves questions.  All. The. Time.  (When will my father stop doing this? When will life get better? Will dinner ever be ready?)  It became noticeable, and then tiresome. 

Next I'm going to try The Widow, which Jeanne sent me. 

I'm just starting A Mother's Promise by KD Alden. This novel deals with the 1927 SCOTUS decision Buck v Bell, which upheld the (all too common at the time) compulsory sterilization of intellectually disabled women in institutions of the era. I did a paper on this case in college, so I'm hoping this fictional account will be an interesting read. 

Back to my Plaidy book.  Finished Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay which has been on my TBR for a very long time.  Since I so enjoyed The Rain Watcher that she wrote that I decided to pick this one up.  Both are very good although The Rain Watcher was much more so.  She captured the emotions of the family so well that I found myself holding my breath occasionally.  

I am reading Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams  Set between 1937 and 1947. Really well written. I am enjoying it.

Finished Queen Jezebel by Plaidy.  What a read!  In my opinion, this woman has to have been the most wicked woman in history!  Author does an outstanding job writing about Catherine and her family.  All are just wierd!

Finished Queen Jezebel by Plaidy.  What a read!  In my opinion, this woman has to have been the most wicked woman in history!  Author does an outstanding job writing about Catherine and her family.  All are just wierd!  Good read though.  I love books based on people who once lived even if they are as power hungry as Catherine was.

Well, I have read The Widows (in April) and The Hollows (Kinship, Bk 2) by Jess Montgomery. Just finished The Hollows and both of these are terrific reads IMO. I'm looking forward to getting the third one titled The Stills. Her writing is basically everything I want in a good book and I've written reviews here on both of them. I sure hope she keeps writing! The characters are people from the past - books take place during the 1920s in Appalachia in Ohio. The author lets you know in her notes about the liberties she took in writing her books. I'm hooked!!!

Those books sound really good, Jeanne! 

I'm halfway through The Widows, and I agree...it's a great read!  Just enough mystery to make it hard to put down.

Finished Daughters of Rome (Rome, Bk 2) by Kate Quinn, 5/20/2021, 4 stars.  Quinn does a great job in discussing a tragic year when Rome lost 3 (or was it 4 - check it out to see what you think) emperors in a year.  She uses a group of women, cousins, two of which are sisters.  Of the group only two really lived during this tragic year.  I enjoyed this one a great deal.

Hello, all!  I finished My Name is Mary Sutter over the weekend.  Pretty good.  It wasn't as good as I thought.  I found that some parts dragged but then toward the end it's like everything was rushed.  Not a bad read though. I started Stillwater by Nicole Helget, which I'm reading for the 2021 HF Challenge (book with the name of a city in the title), and although I'm only a few chapters in, I like it.  For those of you non-Minnesotans, which is probably everyone except REK and I (and our dear departed Cheryl), Stillwater is a city along the St. Croix river in the eastern part of the state.  

Still listening to Hamnet. I love it, but I just haven't had a ton of time to listen to audio lately. 

Jeanne - You are an enabler. I clicked on your link for The Widows and immediately ordered the Kindle version.  Shame on you for making me buy more books when I have so many to read.  At least I chose the Kindle version, so I don't have one more physical book to have to move!  

Sorry Shelley, but I think you'll enjoy it! I checked the third book in this series (The Stills) out from the library but haven't been able to get into it due to my doctor appointments and now a trip out of town for the weekend!!

No worries, Jeanne!  I hope all is well with the doc appointments! 

We are getting ready to move this weekend.  Our daughter's high school graduation commencement is tomorrow.  We will do our physical move on Monday.  We are temporarily moving to my Grandmother's house (she is dead but the family still has the house), which is about 85 miles from where we live now, while we build a new house on our lake lot.  Fortunately I am able to continue on with my same job, I'll just be working from home.  With the sale of our current house, my daughter's graduation, the move, switching to working from home and starting construction on our new house, I am totally overwhelmed.  Hopefully in a week or so, things will slow way down and I can get more reading in.  

I am reading The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin. Quite good so far. My first book by this author. Set in 1939 England.

Shelley, if you can get any reading in during the next month, I will be amazed! You have SO MUCH going on at the same time. Try to pace yourself......

LOL!  I have managed to read at least a tiny bit each day for the past week, so that's good!