Not a bad month for books or meeting the challenge. I couldn't go wrong in "something new" or "something borrowed." Believe it or not, my hardest challenge was "an old favorite." Because I feel I don't have time to get to all the new things I want and/or should read (I do have to keep up with books for work and not just pleasure purposes, after all). So, I typically avoid re-read. At least re-reads of an entire book. I still read my favorite parts and such. This month, I had two re-reads, but one was not "an old favorite." And I had such a desire to re-read all of my beloved Little House books. But due dates loomed and I needed to read those which I knew had holds on them. So, well, oh well. I was able to read one, and that only because I did the audio version.
I've been loving the Beehive Nominee challenge I gave myself. With the Juvenile and YA fiction, I have come across some great books. I marked the nominees with an *.
And just look at how much nonfiction I managed in one month! And none of them were audio!
Read an old favorite:
Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
Read a book you've never read before:
Emily's Fortune by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor*
Jane Austen: A Life Revealed by Catherine Reef
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea*
Read a book you borrowed from library or friend:
Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare by Michael J. Ortiz
A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell*
Read a book with "blue" in the title or the cover is blue:
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade*
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye
Nonfiction # 1:
She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander
Nonfiction # 2:
Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb: And 333 Other Surprising Facts That Will Make You Wealthier, Healthier and Smarter Than Everyone Else by Mark DiVincenzo
Other:
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
June Totals
Audio = 6
Juvenile = 7
YA = 5 (which helped me surpass my YA goal for the year)
Adult = 3
Pages = 3731
Books = 15
Points = 145
