Month in Review: June 2019

How is it that this year is already half over? I had a great reading month and I am hoping, now that summer is here, that this trend continues!!! I did manage to get my recap posts up from my time at BookExpo, so I will include the links here. And if you follow me on Instagram, I’ve been spotlighting each individual book I picked up…I’m having a great time doing so and getting excited all over about all the books as I discuss them. I can be found at @k2reader if you are on Instagram – you can see the latest posts over on the sidebar. I’ve been doing them 3 times a week – Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays and I only started on June 12th, so I’ve done 9 BookExpo book spotlight posts so far!

Links to my BookExpo recaps:

 

Reading Stats: 

  • Read this month: 18
  • Year to date: 100

Books Read:  

  1. The Guest Book — Sarah Blake
  2. Queen Bee — Dorothea Benton Frank
  3. Chase — James Patterson
  4. I’ll Never Tell — Catherine McKenzie (audio book)
  5. The First Mistake — Sandie Jones
  6. The Dead Girl in 2A — Carter Wilson (e-book)
  7. This Is Home — Lisa Duffy (audio book)
  8. Your Life Is Mine — Nathan Ripley
  9. Lock Every Door — Riley Sager
  10. The Summer Country — Lauren Willig
  11. Princess: A Private Novel — James Patterson
  12. Summer of ’69 — Elin Hilderbrand (audio book)
  13. False Step — Victoria Helen Stone
  14. The Body Lies — Jo Baker
  15. Rebecca — Dapne Du Maurier
  16. A Nearly Normal Family — M.T. Edvardsson
  17. Her Secret Son — Hannah Mary McKinnon (e-book)
  18. The Good Sister — Gillian McAllister

  
Favorite Books of June: 
 

  • The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
  • Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
  • A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson

Challenges:

I am participating in 2 challenges/projects this year and I will be keeping be giving updates in these posts.




#UnReadShelfProject2019:

*These
numbers only refer to books that have been sitting on my shelf for a
while or that I have recently purchased. It does not include any review
books.

  • Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of June: 192
  • Books read in June (that count): 3
  • Books bought/received as gift in June: 4
  • Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 7
  • Total unread books on shelf at end of June: 186

 

 YTD Stats:  

  • Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of January: 186
  • Total Books read from shelves (that count): 16
  • Total Books bought/received as gift: 23
  • Total Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 7
  • Total unread books on shelf at end of June: 186



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#ThrillerThursdayChallenge:

  • January’s challenge: a thriller from a debut author
    •  Book read: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  • February’s challenge: a thriller with a one word title
    • Book read: Unwanted by Kristina Ohlsson
  • March’s challenge: a thriller with the word “Woman” in the title
    • Book read: The Woman in the Dark by Vanessa Savage
  • April’s challenge: a thriller written in a language other than English
    • Book read: The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson (Icelandic)
  • May’s challenge: a historical thriller
    • Book read: The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry 
  • June’s challenge: a thriller that’s been made into a movie
    • Book read: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  • July’s challenge: a new-release thriller/released in 2019
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  • August’s challenge: a thriller with the word “Girl” in the title
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  • September’s challenge: a thriller published before the year you were born
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  • October’s challenge: a thriller from a series that’s new to you
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  • November’s challenge: a thriller with more than 10k reviews on Goodreads
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  • December’s challenge: a thriller with “Murder” “Kill” “Killing” or “Death” in the title 
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