Month in Review: June 2021

 

How is it that they year is halfway over? It’s crazy to think that six months have gone by already. At least it’s been filled with some amazing reads, right? This was another good month. I am shocked at how many books continue to come out each Tuesday…so much so that I am having a hard time keeping up – but there are worse problems to have, right? At least I know I will never run out of books to read!

 

Reading Stats:

  • Read this month: 26
  • Year to date: 164

 

Books Read:     

  1. The North Face of the Heart — Dolores ReDondo (audio book)
  2. The Bullet — Iris Johansen (audio book)
  3. Dance Away With Me — Susan Elizabeth Phillips (audio book)
  4. A Dark & Secret Place — Jen Williams
  5. Limelight — Amy Poeppel (audio book)
  6. The Maidens — Alex Michaelides (audio book)
  7. Far Gone — Danielle Girard (e-book)
  8. One Year Gone — Avery Bishop
  9. Sisters of the Resistance — Christine Wells (audio book)
  10. The Hive — Melissa Scholes Young (audio book)
  11. Hairpin Bridge — Taylor Adams (e-book)
  12. The Third Victim — Lisa Gardner (audio book)
  13. No Hiding in Boise — Kim Hooper (audio book)
  14. The Accidental Suffragist— Galia Gichon
  15. The Secret Wife — Gill Paul (e-book)
  16. What’s Done in Darkness — Laura McHugh
  17. Malibu Rising — Taylor Jenkins Reid (audio book)
  18. A Cut for a Cut — Carol Wyer (audio book)
  19. A Distant Grave — Sarah Stewart Taylor (print/audio)
  20. The Woman They Could Not Silence — Kate Moore
  21. Heavy — Kiese Laymon (audio book)
  22. Razorblade Tears — S.A. Cosby (audio book)
  23. In the Month of the Midnight Sun — Cecilia Ekback
  24. Survive the Night — Riley Sager
  25. Shoulder Season — Christine Clancy (audio book)
  26. The Personal Librarian — Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray

 
Favorite Books of June:     

  • What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh
  • Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
  • The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray

 

This year I am all about the numbers. I decided that I am not doing any challenges, but I am going to pay attention to my own stats. This may or may not change as the year goes on…we shall see.

Books read that were published this year:  20  (132 YTD)

And of those, how many were review books:  20  (155 YTD)

Backlist review books read:  2  (13 YTD)

Books read off my own shelf (not review books):  2  (18 YTD)

Books bought/won in giveaways:  5  (31 YTD)