It’s my SECOND ever monthly book review. I tell you, friends, audio books have changed the game. I’ve gone from non-reader to creating “Want to Read” lists and listening every free minute I get.

I don’t even recognize myself. But in a really good way!

This month, I read five books.

I started the month reading, Motherprayer: Lessons in Loving. This was a recommendation from my Mom, and I really enjoyed it. Written as a little tribute to motherhood and raising two boys, I could relate to so many of the things she was writing about in this book. It was a likely will read again, as she put into words so many of the things that I’ve felt being a mom.

I will say that if you’re listening to the audiobook version, there are recipes, which don’t translate well to audiobook. Kind of hard to follow the recipe for mac and cheese or pot roast.

Then, I moved on to Educated. Yes, it’s old. But oh my, it’s excellent. Fascinating book about a woman’s life growing up off the grid in Idaho, never attending school to going to college and expanding her entire world view, and how that impacted her relationship with her family. Truly incredible story, and powerful narrative about how family ties bind us, even when those ties are abusive and damaging.

That was followed up by much lighter affair with Cameron Eubanks Wimberly of Southern Charm fame’s, memoir, One Day You’ll Thank Me. Cute. Nothing truly earth shattering or incredible. I read these reality TV celebrity’s memoirs to get some back insight into their lives. So, the chapter about Southern Charm was, of course, my favorite. The rest was just ‘meh’ for me. Fine. Expected for a celebrity memoir, in my opinion.

Next was In Five Years. Loved this one, too. The author flips between present day and five years in the future until they eventually converge. I couldn’t put it down, wanting to know how the main character got from present day to the crazy situation she found herself in five years later. And it made me cry. In case, that’s your type of thing in a book.

Finally, I finished off the month reading The Last Thing He Told Me. Again. I COULD NOT put it down. The mystery of what happened to Owen, why he disappeared, and whether Hannah and Bailey could piece it all together before they were in danger?

Ahhhh. It was good, guys. Really good.

What do you all agree with or disagree with? What should I put on my “want to read” list?