Scorchio! A month of books as a distraction… ☀📚 #20BOS26

Well, June has been something of a month, hasn’t it? The phrase ‘Flaming June’ definitely applied here, and like many I have been suffering in the heat (I’m a spring and autumn gal myself…) There’s also been lots of stuff going on with an Ageing Relative and so frankly I have needed the solace and escape of books. It has been a mostly good month for reading, however, and here is a pile of the relevant volumes: As always, here is a list of titles in case the spines are not clear, and I’ve added after the details a number – this is to keep a tally of my 20 Books of Summer reading. As you can see, at over half of the 20 I’m doing quite well so far… Opium by Jean Cocteau (13) The Future of Bananas by James Dale (8) Visions and Apparitions by Ladislav Klima (10) Sea Marked by Linda Cracknell (11) Women of Iron and Velvet by Margaret Crosland (12) Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (9) This Long Pursuit by Richard Holmes (7) The Mrs Dalloway Reader by Virginia Woolf et al (6) Inhuman Land by…