It got busy this week! Lots going on at home, work, and otherwise as well. Life My daughter's school decided to close on Friday, along with several other schools in the area, with some being closed from Thursday. Not enough staff. The school had been on a mask mandate since the beginning of the pandemic, dropping it only for one week when the pandemic had appeared to have stabilized last year. And yet, they dropped the mandate completely at the beginning of this year, when cases were exponentially rising, only to bring it back again starting next week. I've gone from being very annoyed to angry to feeling fatigue in these first two weeks already. I won't lie - we all mask around here and try to avoid going where we don't have a need to be in, and still, we are not taking anything close to the extreme precaution we all took at the beginning of the pandemic. I cannot and don't want to keep my kids home - I have at least that much faith in the schools' precautions
In spite of a slow first half in June, I did read quite a lot more during the second half. It's nice to end a month joyfully! I also got a nook this month and had an awesome weekend getaway to DC! I'm still doing 12 challenges (one perpetual, and one my own summer challenge), and I am finally coming to terms with the possibility that I will not complete all of them by the end of the year.
Other posts
Did you miss my chat with Claire Avery, author of Hidden Wives?
I also listed five of my recent intriguing bookish book-loving characters.
Yay for challenges I am acing at
- 100+ Reading Challenge: 52/100
- Support your Local Library Challenge: 30/50
- Flashback Reading Challenge: 5/9
- Women Unbound Challenge: 4/5
- A to Z Challenge: 35/52
- POC Challenge: 8/10
- Awesome Author Challenge: 2/10
- 451 Challenge: 1/7
- Original TBR Challenge: 4/12
- Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: 3/10
- Summer Reading Challenge: 1/6
- Orange Prize Project: 0
June Stats
Number of books: 10
Number of pages read: 2828
Number of Audio Books: 1
Hours listened to (completed audio books only): 11 hours, 9 minutes
Zero Re-reads | 7 New-to-me authors | 2 Male authors | 8 Female authors
Comments
You had such a good June! Congrats! It may have started slow but you finished STRONG!
Here's to a great July!!
Congrats on being half way to 100! Great progress.
Felicia, I'm definitely glad I finished strong, else I might have slipped into one of those nasty ruts.
Molly, I get some kind of pleasure by keeping track of those stats. LOL! There were more, but I thought I was overdoing. ;-)
Care, so long as you have a good quality month, I guess it doesn't really matter how many you read. :)
Belle, thank you! It truly was!
Stacy, I love my nook! I enjoy cozying up to it. I need to get through my current review books, so that I can get to reading it more.
Diane, thank you! I'm glad that my June was better than my May.
Vasilly, I LOVED Still Alice most of all. It was so beautiful!