June Book Report

June 2021

I finished 16 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things.”

 -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 6 were from my updated #20booksofsummer2021 list
• 6 were non-fiction and 1 was poetry (toward my goal of 10 non-fiction books and some poetry this year) 
• 1 was a book I own but hadn't read before #unreadshelfproject2021
• 1 counts toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 1 counted toward the Canadian Book Challenge which I completed this month
• none were from my Classics Club List and none counted toward the Back to the Classics Challenge this month

Here are the books I finished in June 2021:

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (4-stars)
2. A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry (audiobook, 3-stars)
3. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland  (4-stars)
4. The Doctor of Thessaly by Anne Zouroudi (3-stars)
5. In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers --stories (3-stars)
6. The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair (3-stars)
7. Fortune and Glory by Janet Evanovich (4-stars)
8. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (3-stars)
9. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (audiobook, 3-stars)
10. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood (3-stars)
11. Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries by Emily Brightwell (audiobook, 3-stars)
12. Blue Horses by Mary Oliver (4-stars)
13. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett (4-stars)
14. An Invitation to Self-Care by Tracey Cleantis (4-stars)
15. A Question of Guilt by Francis Fyfield (2-stars) --would have been 2.5 if half-stars were allowed
16. Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved my Life by Christie Tate (3-stars)

My audiobooks this month were a bit of a slog, but I will give another Mrs. Jeffries novel a chance. I need to do some reading for Classics Club.