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June 2021 Wrap-up

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June TBR Pile: I did away with my TBR list at the beginning of the month to let the reader inspiration take me where it wanted. Here’s what I read this month:

  1. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
  2. Bellamy and the Brute by Alicia Michaels
  3. Broken by Jenny Lawson
  4. The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
  5. Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman
  6. Looking Glass by Christina Henry
  7. Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence
  8. A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
  9. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  10. The Downing Kind by Jennifer McMahon
  11. The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks
  12. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
  13. The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
  14. Scary Stories for Little Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker
  15. A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
  16. For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
  17. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 5530 pages Pages Remaining: 468,997 pages

Current Read - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (4) - I grabbed two books from Book of the Month. I also received a book that I won from Goodreads and totally forgot about. And I got a book during our book club swap day.

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian
  • Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams
  • Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

UnRead Shelf Progress

  • Starting Number: 279
  • Books Read: 0
  • Books Acquired: 4
  • Books Unshelved: 0
  • Finishing Number: 283

July TBR Pile:

  1. Book of the Month Club: ???
  2. Formerly Girly Book Club now Bookworms: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  3. Friend Book Club: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
  4. MMD RC: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
  5. Nonfiction: Wintering by Katherine May
  6. Fantasy: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
  7. Fantasy: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
  8. Comic: Something is Killing the Children Vol. 3
  9. Science Fiction: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
  10. Romance: Friends without Benefits by Penny Reid
  11. Kid Read Aloud: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
  12. Kid Read Aloud: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

Movies watched

  • Deep Murder - Fun quirky movie
  • Good on Paper - Interesting little comedy

TV Shows watched 

  • Loki - Oh yes! I can’t wait to watch this one every week.
  • Running Wilde S1 - I never watched this short-lived comedy sitcom, so we started. Short and sweet, but lots of fun.
  • Hustle S3-4
  • Star Trek: Voyager S3-4
  • Holey Moley S3
  • Mythic Quest S2
  • Last Week Tonight
  • Rick and Morty S5
  • Making It S3

Comments - I loved having no reins on my reading this month! It was lovely to allow my moods to determine my next reads. There were definitely some misses in there, but I knocked out a ton of titles from my bigger TBR. And we managed to watch some great television this month (hello Loki!!!!). Looking forward to what is July brings!

Next up on the TBR pile:

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