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What did you read in JUNE?
We're halfway through the year! (WUT) What did you read this month? How was it? How many for the year so far?
Re: What did you read in JUNE?
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: 4 stars
The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants: 5 stars
Project ELE by Rebecca Gober: 4 stars
Finding ELE by Rebecca Gober: 3 stars
Exposing ELE by Rebecca Gober: 3 stars
Surviving ELE by Rebecca Gober : 3 stars
Ending ELE by Rebecca Gober - 3 stars
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
1776 by David McCullough - 5 stars
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon - 5 stars (4 stars? I'm still kind of torn)
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell - 4 stars
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - 2 stars (seriously, I feel like I read a different book than all of you, because I just wasn't into this one. I'm listening to the second one now, and it's slightly better, I think)
This makes 30 for the year, which was my sort-of goal. I'm not upping my goal or anything, I was just aiming to read more than last year, and I only read 30 last year altogether, so I'm psyched to be there already at only halfway through the year.
Sugar & Spice
Ruin and Rising - 4 stars
Push Girl - 5 stars, I loved it!
I am SO ridiculously behind this year... Push Girl was #16 for the whole year. Although my AVERAGE number of pages per book is 670, so there's that...
52 Books in 2014??
My sweet babies:
If I Die in a Combat Zone
Tim O’Brien
Confessions of a Sociopath
M.E. Thomas
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship Marriage
Alice Munro
Broken Harbor
Tana French
Love Wins
Rob Bell
Mr Mercedes
Stephen King
Push Girl
Jessica Love
The History of Love
Nichole Krauss
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote
Decision Points
George W Bush
Losing It by Cora Carmack - 4 1/2 stars
If You Stay by Courtney Cole- 3 1/2 stars
Misunderstandings by Tiffany King- 4 1/2 stars
The Fault in Our Stars (reread)- 5 stars
Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover- 5 stars
I'm one book ahead of schedule for a goal of 35 books (I upped it from 25)
The Fracking King, James Browning - 2*
Wonder, R.J. Palacio - 5*
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike, Grant Petersen - 4*
The Android's Dream, John Scalzi - 5*
I just noticed I met my goal! Last year I failed, and was so worried I would this year that I set my goal low at 40 books. I've read 42 so far this year. If it weren't for audibooks I would be desperately behind, as I've listened to all but 14 of those I've had so little time for reading-reading, but I've been walking and now running and listening to audiobooks while I do it. Time to up my goal -- 60 maybe.
my read shelf:
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my read shelf:
August: Osage County - 3 stars
Open Road Summer - 3 stars
Between Shades of Gray - 5 stars
The Scorch Trials - 3 stars
Paper Towns - 3 stars
We Were Liars - 2 stars
A Shot of Sultry - 5 stars
I am at 24 of 52. 1 book behind for the year. I'm a little concerned about meeting my goal this year because I want to read a bunch of longer books coming up.
I listened to the following as re reads:
The Maze Runner
The Fault In Our Stars
Unbroken
BFP 1/8/11 - U/S 2/24/11 (11wks) no heartbeat measuring 6w1d - D&C 2/28/11
After The End - 2 stars
The Age of Miracles - 3 stars
The Winter People - 4.5 stars
A Modern Witch - 3 stars
Magic Study - 3 stars
Into The Still Blue - 3.5 stars
Wish You Were Italian - 3.5 stars
8 books for the month. 57/100 for the year.
IVF w/ICSI - transferred 2; froze 3
Beta #1 150 Beta #2 320 - 7/16 124 bpm (6w5d) EDD 3/6/13
Our team green baby was a girl! Emma Lynn born 2/23/13
my read shelf:
The Firebird
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Fangirl
Push Girl
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
I enjoyed them all very much but DoGaM was my favorite of all.
I'm working on number 38 for the year now. We'll see where I end up. I think 65-75 books is my "healthiest" zone; I don't rush through like a crazy person to meet some goal, so I think my mid-year is right on track.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks
I read:
This Girl - Colleen Hoover - 3 stars
Ignite Me - Tahereh Mafi - 4 stars
Magic Slays - Ilona Andrews - 4 stars
Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews - 4 stars
City of Heavenly Fire - Cassandra Clare - 3 stars
Sixth Grave on the Edge - Darynda Jones - 3 stars
Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson - 3 stars
I've read 58 out of my 114 goal for the year.
What I Thought Was True
Huntley Fitzpatrick
2 stars
While Love Stirs
Lorna Seilstad
2 stars
Barefoot Summer
Denise Hunter
2 stars
The Supreme Macaroni Company
Adriana Trigiani
2 stars
The Martian
Andy Weir
5 stars
Push Girl
Jessica Love
4 stars
The Bungalow
Sarah Jio
4 stars
The Collector
Nora Roberts
2 stars
The Cookbook Collector
Allegra Goodmand
1 star
I'm at 70 for the year.
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
The Submissive – Tara Sue Me *
Starry Night – Debbie Macomber 6/22 **
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker ****
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My read shelf:
June was a slow month for me. I only read 3 books and am at 36 for the year (50 is my goal).
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick ***
Sisters of Treason by Elizabeth Fremantle ****
A Triple Knot by Emma Campion ***
my read shelf:
Just One Night - Gayle Forman - 5 stars
One More Thing:Stories and Other Stories - BJ Novak - 3 stars
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker - 4 stars
Reality Boy - A.S. King - 4 stars
Cinder - Marissa Meyer - 4 stars
Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosch - 4 stars
Scarlet - Marissa Meyer - 4 stars
I'm at 15/25 books for the year
My new bff Gayle Forman!
“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
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Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
my read shelf: