By the time this post is published, we will all be back home, but right this moment, as I type this up, we are enjoying our last day at Daufuskie, a secluded island near Hilton Head, SC and Savannah, GA. We were lucky to score a cottage (without having to break the bank) with front-row access to the beach, something that has always been on my bucket list and that I was thrilled to cross off. This week has been very refreshing and just what I needed - a getaway, a break from it all, a retreat with family with no thoughts of work, to-do lists, and chores getting in the way. The island sure runs on its own time. The streetlights aren't turned ON at night to avoid attracting turtles too far from their ideal nesting place. There's the alligator crossing time at night when they go from pond to pond visiting friends (and hence tourists are advised to stay home when it's dark). There are very few cars - instead the preferred mode of transportation is via golf carts, which can go o
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!