June Book Challenges

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