June Book Report

June 2023

I finished 5 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn’t result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content. The hours immersed in rereading can seem like due diligence, but the amount of study time is no measure of mastery.”
― Peter C. Brown, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Here is my (extremely limited) progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 2 were books (audiobooks actually) I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• 0 counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge which ended on July 1
• 0 were from my Classics Club List 
• 0 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• 0 counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• 0 counted toward the 2023 What's in a Name Challenge
• 0 were from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 1 was from the mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year
• 5 were from my (revised) #20BooksofSummer23 list

 Here are the books I finished in June 2023: 

1. Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown (audiobook, 3-stars)
2. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante  (audiobook, 3-stars)
3. Innocent Graves by Peter Robinson (4-stars)
4. Happier Hour by Cassie Holmes (3-stars)
5. Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey by Reid Mitenbuler (audiobook, 4-stars)

I read very few books (for me) last month and this month I finished even fewer. This is not a good trend!