June Book Report

June 2022

I finished 11 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“As soon as they had decided this, it was wonderful how much more cheerful everyone became...one always feels better when one has made up one's mind.” -- C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 5 were non-fiction (toward my goal of 25 non-fiction books this year) and 1 counted toward a specific category of the NonFiction Reader Challenge 
• 5 were books I owned but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none was poetry (toward my goal of reading 4 poetry books this year which is NOT going well)
• I completed the Canadian Book Challenge in April and have signed up for the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge which began 7/1.
• none were from my Classics Club List, but 1 counted toward Back to the Classics

• 0 counted toward the Cruisin' Through the Cozies Challenge 
• 1 counted toward the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• 1 counted toward the Turtle Recall Challenge
• 2 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• none were for my Century of Books project
• 3 were from my 20 Books of Summer list (I have 4 books for this challenge currently in progress)

 Here are the books I finished in June 2022: 

1. Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee (audiobook, 4-stars)
2. The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean (3-stars)
3. Matrix by Lauren Groff (4-stars)
4. Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen (3-stars)
5. Bloodline by Felix Francis (4-stars)
6. No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy (4-stars)
7. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (4-stars)
8. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (4-stars)
9. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (4-stars)
10. Jingo by Terry Pratchett (4-stars)
11. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade (audiobook, 4-stars)

I was hoping to read more from my own shelves this month than I managed, but I did make progress. The current literary fiction (which is for a project at work) that I read this month, more of which are still in progress,  took up quite a bit of my reading time.