I read 7 books in June. Only one of my book clubs is active, so I read one book for my book club.
I had a bunch of 30 minute days again, so I didn’t read as much as I wanted to. I owned all the books I read.
After starting the book club pick, which was chosen for the month because we wanted to read Asian authors, I decided the rest of the books I read in June would be by Asian authors.
Elevation by Stephen King [★★★★★]
The Kingdom of Back (bookclub pick) by Marie Lu [★★★★★]
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro [★★★★★]
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang [★★★★★]
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro [★★★★★]
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before #1) by Jenny Han [★★★★☆]
P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #2) by Jenny Han [★★★★☆]
Books in bold are the ones I own(ed)
The Remains of the Day was my favorite book this month.
I started the third book in the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, but didn’t finish it before the month ended.
The Rape of Nanking went towards my 2020 Goal for the TBRBuster challenge made by @bookbandit of reading one nonfiction book a month I’ve owned a year or longer.
The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant went towards one of my overall 2020 goals of reading at least 10 books that I’ve owned for a year or longer.
Read 30 minutes a day [182/366]
Read 10 books that have been on my shelves for more than a year [7/10]
Become more active in the booklr community (not as much as I should have)
Read one book that is a 1,000 pages or more
Complete one series I’ve already started (A Series of Unfortunate Events, The African Trilogy, Heroes of Olympus, Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children)
Write in my journal every day, even if it’s only one sentence [182/366]
all books have to be owned for a year or longer at the time of reading
Read one nonfiction book a month, these do not count towards yearly goal [6/12]
Read one book I own by J. R. R. Tolkien
Read one book that is 800+ pages
Read one book that is more than a 100 years old
Read one book that was written in or before the 16th century
I loved the books I read in June. Most of them were melancholy and deeply reflective, and I enjoyed that. I ended up only reading books that I owned because I wanted to make sure I was paying attention to my shelves a little more. I said at the end of May I wanted to focus on The Shadowhunter Chronicles, that didn’t happen. As soon as I decided to read Asian authors, I just moved on from that. I will get back to them one day. I also wanted to read a book from Scribd and I probably could have, but again, I focused on what I owned instead.
My check-in info is as of 6/30 so it only contains things for June
