#June reading wrap up

[godzilla-reads]

🩵 Happy July 🩵

In June I finished 11 books, bringing my yearly total to 76 books! My Top 3 that I read are starred in the list:

⭐️ The Chromatic Fantasy by H. A.

🦄 Blue Moon Mountain by Geraldine McCaughlean

🐻 The Mukluk Ball by Katharine Johnson and Alicia Schwab

🤷 a Year & other poems by Jos Charles

🏳️‍⚧️ A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson

🌸 Flower Fairies of Summer by Cicley Mary Barker

⭐️ I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

🐲 The Hidden Kingdom by Tui T. Sutherland and Mike Holmes

🦆 A Short Philosophy of Birds by Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rosseau (trans. Jennifer Higgins)

🇬🇧 Fifty Best Poems of England

⭐️ The Arrival by Shaun Tan

What did you read?

[theinquisitxor]

June 2023 Reading Wrap Up

June was the best reading month I've had in a little while, especially after a couple of 'slumpy' feeling months. I read 9 books this month, as well as started and finished two trilogies. I read mostly fantasy, with 1 literary fiction and 1 nonfiction.

1-3.The Age of Darkness Trilogy by Katy Rose Pool (There Will Come a Darkness, As the Shadow Rises, Into the Dying Light). ~4-5/5 stars per book. This is a series that skyrocketed into a new favorite YA series. These books follow a cast of 5 characters as they try to stop the end of the world. Set in a mediterranean inspired land with gods, paladins, Heirophants, and prophets. This series was so much fun and I really enjoyed my time reading it. YA fantasy, lgbt main romance.

4.The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus 5) by Rick Riordian. 3.5/5 stars. This concluded by reread of the HoO series, and while this particular book isn't by favorite of the series, it was still enjoyable. The Nico and Reyna chapters carried this book tbh. YA/middle grade

5. The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel 5/5 stars. I wasn't sure if I was going to like this novel, but I ended up hooked and completely loving it. Emily Mandel has one of my favorite writing styles, and her ability to craft and weave a story is so talented. Mandel's books are not really happy, not really sad, not really like what I normally read, but are continuously favorites. Literary Fiction.

6.The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack. This was my nonfiction for the month, and I enjoyed this book about all the ways the universe could potentially end (in the far, far future). It is science-y and technical, but I thought Mack explained things very well. Nonfiction.

7-9. The Poppy War Trilogy by RF Kuang (The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God) ~4/5 stars. I've been meaning to read this series for years now, but never quite thought I was in the right headspace to try and tackle this series. I overall enjoyed it, but maybe not quite as much as I was hoping. I liked the parallels to modern history and the critique of colonialism. This series has lots of action and was very readable, which I think helped me overlook some other issues I think the books/writing has. I also discovered that grim-dark is not really my cup of tea, and I probably won't read any more. Adult grim-dark military fantasy.

My average rating was 4 stars for the books I read this month. It felt good to be able to binge some series and some overall poor weather kept me inside, so I had more time to read in general (plus less busy with work + grad school). I'm hoping July is just as productive and enjoyable of a reading month!

[books-coffee-and-the-woods]

June Reading Wrap-Up!

This was a productive month! I finished the longest book on my TBR (The Historian) and then decided I was only going to read short books for the rest of the month. And then got distracted by the library lol. All told, I read 11 books, DNF'd 3, and am currently reading 2.

Read:

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

Th Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack

Princess Jellyfish vols 2 & 3 - Akiko Higashimura

The Sundial - Shirley Jackson

Loveless - Alice Oseman

This is Not a Ghost Story - Andrea Portes

Tripping Arcadia - Kit Mayquist

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches - Kate Scelsa

DNF:

The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean

Archivist Wasp - Nicole Kornher-Stace

Dark Rise - C. S. Pacat

Currently Reading:

The Second Death of Violet and Edie Bond - Amanda Glaze

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

[thebooksanctum]

My June reading wrap up is live on my channel!

[magpiex-reads]

June reading wrap up✨️

I read 6 books during June!

Love & other scams: 4.5☆ - a fun British contemporary romance with a heist plot line.

The Mighty Nein origins: Mollymauk tealeaf: 5☆ - pre campaign stories about Mollymauk (would recommend to fans of C2)

One for my enemy: 2☆ - a 'enemies to lovers' Romeo and Juliet retelling (after the atlas six I have now learnt that her writing style isn't for me)

Sleep alone: 5☆ - a sapphic short horror novel revolving around Succubi. (CW: body horror)

Caraval: 4☆ - a magical game filled with wonder, lies and betrayal with the possibilities of winning wishes and riches. (A very fun and intriguing concept!)

The ballad of never after: 4.5☆ - sequel to once upon a broken heart, a series linked to the caraval series. (Very fast paced with lots of twists and turns)

Currently reading:

Legendary by Stephanie Garber

The gilded cage by Lynette Noni

20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne

The thread that binds by Cedar McCloud

Dracula by Bram Stoker (via Dracula daily)

The house in the cerulean sea by TJ Klune

Once and Future witches by Alix E Harrow

(I am aware I read too many books at once but I lose interest so quickly😭)

[franticvampirereads]

June has been a really great reading month! I think I read 9 books this month? I haven’t done that in a while and it feels kind of nice. 😊 Here’s what I read this month:

Unhinged 5⭐️ {review}

Cherry Picked 5⭐️ {review}

Unicorn’s Forever 4⭐️ {review}

The Pride Of Garnet Run 4⭐️ {review}

Dekoboko Sugar Days: Boys Enjoy Your Youth 4⭐️

Dekoboko Sugar Days: Sugar Rush! 4⭐️ {combined review with the book above}

Ghosts Of The Shadow Market 4.5 ⭐️ {review}

Fangs vol 2 5⭐️ {review}

How Not To Date A Dragon (not pictured) -currently reading

My favorite books this month were Unhinged and Cherry Picked. Both of them were so, so good! 😊

[southernista]

June Reading Wrap Up

Hello fellow book lovers and friends! Well June has come and gone (and so fast)! No more birthday shenanigans until next year and it looks like July is bringing some serious heat! Having said that June was a pretty great reading month overall I read 6 books. How was your June? What was your favorite book you read in June? What was your least favorite book? Please share with me in the…

[bookcub]

my reading has slowed down slightly, i stopped and started a few other books i didn't end up documenting. review for when the angels left the old country is in draft form!

[aromanticasterisms]

the epic highs and lows of rereading your own writing to seek out parts you disliked and analyze Why you disliked them to do better in the future

[bookishfreedom]

may & june wrap up 📚

may was a fabulous reading month, in both quantity and quality of books. june was, unfortunately, lacking in both. here’s hoping july takes after may 🤞

Books read in May, * for new favorites:

✨Transcendent Kingdom (library book)

✨Immortal Longings* (library book)

✨The Miseducation of Cameron Post

✨Falling

✨In Five Years

✨Girl Gone Viral

✨title not included due to the SMP boycott*

✨The Honeymoon Crashers* (audiobook, not pictured)

✨The Deal (ebook, not pictured)

Books read in June:

✨Outrun the Wind

✨The Hunting Party

✨My Body

[godzilla-reads]

🌸 June Reading Wrap-Up 🌸

In June I read 12 books total, bringing my yearly total to 85 books! My top 3 are the starred titles in my list:

🛍️ The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko

🦋 The Moth Keeper by K. O’Neill

⭐️ On Being a Bear: Face to Face with Our Wild Sibling by Rémy Marion (trans. David Warriner)

🌊 The Daughters of Ys by M.T. Anderson and Jo Rioux

🤘 Spider-Punk: Battle of the Banned by Cody Ziglar, Justin Mason, and Jim Charalampidis

🧚‍♀️ The Nixie of the Mill-Pond and Other European Stories edited by Kel McDonald and Kate Ashwin

🐲 Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen

🏳️‍🌈 The DC Book of Pride: A Celebration of DC’s LGBTQIA+ Characters by Jadzia Axelrod

⭐️ The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey

⭐️ Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

👀 In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu

🐺 Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Troy Nixey, and Matt Hollingsworth

[tolive1000lives]

We’ve hit the halfway mark of the 2024 reading challenge! These are most of my 2024 reads and I’m excited to add to the stack!

[magpiex-reads]

A late reading wrap up! I have fallen back into the wuxia and danmei rabbit hole 😅

[franticvampirereads]

June has been interesting, I’ve read some great books and some just okay ones and I had a DNF. So it’s been a bit of a grab bag this month, but that’s okay! Here’s what I read:

Prince’s Gambit 5⭐️ {review}

Three Meant To Be 4⭐️ {review}

Fence: Rise 4⭐️ {review}

For The Fans-DNF @ page 30 {vague reasoning why}

The Alpha’s Son 3.25⭐️ (changed rating) {review}

Lore Olympus vol 1 5 ⭐️ {review}

Washed Up With A Kraken 3.5 ⭐️ {review}

That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon -currently reading

On The Run -currently reading

My favorite books this month were Prince’s Gambit and Lore Olympus. Both were so good that I just couldn’t put them down.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: June Wrap-Up.

Okay, y'all have Convinced Me--I'm going to start doing little wrap up posts! Behold: a shelf of what I read in June (not pictured: the bookmark at page 466 of ORDINARY MONSTERS, because despite having read two (2) books worth of book so far, I'm still not quite done with that one).

June was kind of a slow reading month for me (I did a LOT of writing, looking back--nice). I wanted to take OTHER TERRORS and THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE a bite at a time so the horrors and figures of rhetoric (respectively) didn't all run together. Both of those, much like A SHINING, turned out to be pleasantly leisurely wanders, whereas MONSTERS is kind of a plod.

I already did bigger write-ups for TERRORS and SHINING, linked in the bullets below.

OTHER TERRORS - ★★★★ Great bite-sized horror anthology with a really inclusive mix, as promised! I enjoyed most of these (always nice in an anthology!)

A SHINING - ★★★★ Weird fucked up heavy little book in translation, lit-fic flavored, but very approachable, I thought. Tiny enough to swallow in a sitting, but also kind of exhausting to do it that way? I'll definitely reread this one in the future.

THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE - ★★★ Fun romp through rhetoric! The examples were fun, and I appreciated the humor, but I also find myself still uncertain what a bunch of the figures actually ARE, definitions-wise, despite having read a book full of so many of them (I did just buy his recommended A HANDLIST OF RHETORICAL TERMS to help with that, at least, which is. almost entirely. definitions by volume). Neat thing to have on my references shelf, but it wasn't as excellent as I was hoping it'd be.

ORDINARY MONSTERS - 466/658 pages read; will report back later (but it's not looking good, folks).