May in books, a monthly overview

Here you can see, once again, the books I finished last month.

I should have posted here all the text books about Law I have studied this month (Roman law, constitutional law, civil law, etc.), but somehow I thought you wouldn’t be that interested in these ones 😉

Audiobooks in English:

• The now habit (Neil Fiore): I started listening to audiobooks about habits and organization, and now I can’t stop.
• Making it all work (David Allen): a kind of second part of Getting things done that is not worth your time.

Books in English:

• Dancing backward in Paradise (Vera Jane Cook).
• The princess bride (William Goldman): a re-read I thoroughly enjoyed again. It’s my favourie book.

Books in Spanish:

• The fault in our stars (John Green): a good young adult novel.
• Intemperie (Jesús Carrasco): this time I add this book, which is not available in English for the moment, because I know it is being translated into several languages, so I suppose that sooner or later it will be in English too. A great story, but leaves you quite depressed.

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And that’s all.

They are a lot if we consider that all those books I mentioned above about law have been also deeply read this month. I’m finishing the exams at university this week, so I think that in a few days I will be reviewing as always here on the blog.

Meanwhile, enjoy your reads!

A month in books: April

April has been a great month: I have read all these books you see in the picture and three more that are only available in Spanish, which is the reason why I don’t show them here.

Two audiobooks that I listened to in English:

• The power of habit, by Charles Duhigg (review)
• Willpower, by Roy F. Baumeister (review)

Two books of short stories, again in English:

• Xingu, by Edith Wharton: it is a short story
• Children on their birthdays, by Truman Capote, which includes three short stories

A novel in Spanish:

• The postman, by Antonio Skármeta

I also want to show you that, for the first time this year, I’m ahead of schedule at GoodReads. Will this last? 😉

Hope you also had a great April, and now let’s go for May!

March in books

You might think I read eight books, according to the picture, but they were actually ten – the other two are only available in Spanish and I didn’t include them here. ¡¡Ten books!!

The power of habit (review) and The honest truth about dishonesty were audiobooks.

I read Clash of kings in Spanish as part of a joint reading, and Comfort of fences as part of a book tour.

I recieved Tea and primroses (review) from the publishers, and I couldn’t be happier because I love romance.

The returned is everywhere since the TV series is also on air in Spain, but the book disappointed me a little.

There is a collection of short stories, Flowers in the rain, by one of my favourite authors.

And finally, my favourite book of the month, chosen for my book club, was The kite runner.

Hope you had a good month as well. Now let’s start April!

February in books

I have thought about  writing a monthly overview of the books I have read; at least about the ones that I have read or which are available in English, and today it’s a good day to start, don’t you think?

There weren’t so many books on February, as you can see, but among them we have one of the novels that I will include in the Best of the year list, The horse whisperer (review); another non-fiction, Hidden in plain sight (review), thanks to which I have discovered Norman Rockwell’s work; and a romantic novel by one of the authors I began to read last year and now I know I will look for every book by her, Caramel and Magnolias (review). The fourth book wasn’t as good as I expected: The Korean word for butterfly (review).

Besides, I also spent one afternoon making some bookmarks full of love 😀

Regarding my academic life, I had my exams at the beginning of the month, so I didn’t have so much time to read for pleasure, as you can imagine; but fortunately enough I did it well and passed all of them! It seems that I have found something I’m good at from the beginning, and it gives me the energy I need to keep on studying these subjects that are so different from everything I knew before.

It has been a great month. Now I’m ready for March!