The Month in Books: May & June

I realized partway through June that I never posted what I read in May. So, here it is. As always reviews go back to Goodreads.com.

May

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
• Servant of the Bones, Anne Rice
• Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics, Francesca DenHartog
• Song Yet Sung, James McBride
• Drowning Lessons: Stories (Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction), Peter Selgin
• Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own, Doreen Orion
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
• Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew, Amy Karol

June

• Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres, Ruth Brandon
• Sew U: The Built by Wendy Guide to Making Your Own Wardrobe, Wendy Mullin
• The Best 30-minute Recipe: A Best Recipe Classic (Cook’s Illustrated)
• The Scandal of the Season: A Novel, Sophie Gee
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
• Them, Joyce Carol Oates
• The Odd Women, George Gissing
• Girl in Landscape: A Novel, Jonathan Lethem
• The Odd Woman: A Novel, Gail Godwin