May First Reads

 So for May, we've got mystery, domestic thriller, historical fiction, women's fiction (huh?), comtemporary romance, fantasy, family drama, and memoir, plus the children's book. 

1. Mystery - Beneath Devil's Bridge - library owns
   
2. Family drama - Like Wind Against Rock - library owns
3. Domestic thriller - the Darkest Flower - 
4. Contemporary Romance - The Checklist - library owns
   
5. Memoir - The Puma Years - could be interesting
6. Women's fiction - These Tangled Vines - sounds like as much family drama as #2
7. Fantasy - Bacchanal
8. Historical fiction - Girls in the Attic - another WWII

I went with These Tangled Vines - a little literary travel might be nice, Italy sounds good.  

Puzzle defeat

 I gave up on a puzzle this morning.  I got the edge together, and then I realized how much of a pain it was going to be.  Gorgeous art, but not worth the headache.

This is a Runlycan puzzle, a brand I'd never heard of.  Very basic box, although it did have a photo on the lid (the Anderson Design Group puzzle was in a plain box).  No puzzle dimensions inside or outside, but there was a small poster of the artwork included.  This one has an alphabet grid printed on the reverse side, which is helpful.  But the fit was so loose that even picking up two connected pieces was impossible, so the grid isn't going to help a whole lot.  And the bottom edge had a flaw in the alphabet, where multiple pieces didn't match the grid.  Not sure if pieces were swapped from another puzzle, or if there was a glitch in the printing, or what. The pieces were also very flimsy and thing.