Wow July felt like a really long month! I read 6 physical books, 2 ebooks and listened to 1 audiobook, this is the most reading I have done in a month for a long time and was mainly down to my yalc reading. It was a good month with 5 books reaching a 5 star rating!

My 5 Star Reads

My 4 Star Reads

My 3 Star Reads

When I wasn’t reading

So July was YALC month, and whilst it was a book event, technically I didn’t read, so it counts for this! You can catch up with all my YALC happenings by visiting my post from yesterday. We also pottered down to LFCC whilst we were there and got plenty of Ghibli inspred goodies, I particularly love the Cat Bus pin that me and Biba each got one of!  Geeky Clean released there “Let the Sun Shine” collection which is amazing and probably my favourite since their Ghibli collection at the beginning of the year. There is not one thing in the collection that I don’t love and the Happy Cloud bath bombs are looking like they will make permanent stock. You can catch the end of the collection by following this link and using my code Paperbacksandpinot10 at checkout.

Looking ahead

I’m currently putting together my TBR for August, I have a fair few review books on the list already – I think I may close for reviews in September Just to I can get some reading for me done, but we’ll see. It’s the start of the summer holidays here in the UK so I’m hoping to get in plenty of days out and lots of fun in the sunshine with the family. We’ve got a Zoo visit planned, trips to the beach, Mr Paperbacks will be taking Biba to the London Science Museum, I’m hoping to get to Cambridge for Movies on the Meadow and finally a trip to the Sea Life Centre in London if we can. We also have a little celebration coming up for mine and Mr Paperbacks 10 year wedding anniversary ❤  It’s looking like there may actually only be time for a few books on my Tbr for August!

Join in and tell me what were your favourite reads this month?