Showing posts with label june 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label june 2018. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2018

Month in Review: June 2018



June has seemed like a crazy month. I'm not even sure why exactly because it felt both fast and slow, but all I know is we're finally at the end and I'm doing my wrap-up!

I was actually on track to read a bit more than usual, but instead I've ended up overloading myself with other things that sort of waylaid that. For instance, every year I like to try to tackle at least one super intimidating book on my shelf (i.e. War and Peace, Infinite Jest, etc.), and this year I chose Alan Moore's Jerusalem. This monster clocks at a totally not terrifying 1,280 pages (and wow is it heavy). I've scheduled it so I'm basically reading a general numbers of pages a day so I'll read it from June-August. It's a dense book, so even less than twenty pages a day is taking its time, but I've found that taking it slowly is the best way for me to tackle books like these that I would otherwise probably get discouraged reading. 

The second thing taking up reading time is my participation in r/fantasy's Kushiel's Dart read-along, which is about eight chapters a week. It's not too much, but it's still something.
Lastly, I'm beta reading for someone's fantasy novel, which is really exciting! I'm having such a great time doing it and I'm so glad I agreed to take part in it. That being said, none of these on their own are a lot, but all of those together plus the fact that I'm still reading my own regular books... I think I might've bit off more than I can chew. Of course, I could easily just not do one or two or these and be sane, but why on earth would I ever make things easy for myself? So far I'm managing to keep up somehow, but we'll see how it goes. 
Anyway, rambling aside, I hope everyone has had a productive month and that you all have a wonderful July!

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Books read: 11

        
      
  

84K by Claire North  ★★★
The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French ★★★★★
Adrift by Rob Boffard ★★★★
Kings of Paradise by Richard Nell ★★★★★
The Mermaid by Christina Henry ★★★★
Torn by Rowenna Miller ★★★★
 The Silver Mask by Christian Ellingsen ★★★★

(this month)

  
 
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum ★★★★★
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen ★★★★★
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick ★★★★
Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne ★★★
The Oresteia by Aeschylus ★★★★★
Beast:A Tale of Love and Revenge by Lisa Jensen ★★★★
The High Season by Judy Blundell ★★★★
You Were Made For This by Michelle Sacks

Have you read any of these? What books did you read this month? I hope you all had a great month-- comment below!

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