The Books I Read - June 2024
Here are the 8 books I read in June. A few notes on the books this month:
Family Family was a lovely book about adoption and family dynamics and making your own choices for you and your family. It was wonderful! I REALLY wanted to love The Lost Library. I read it with my youngest and I don’t feel like he was very into it. I think there were a few confusing story lines in there that I had to explain to him. They were a little obscure for kids to pick up. It was good, but not a favorite. The Summer Book Club had me excited in the beginning, but ended up just OK by the end. There wasn’t enough book/book club chat for the title. A friend of mine had me read The Book Of Doors because she loved it. I enjoyed it, but just wasn’t overly connected to it. it really felt familiar or that I had read something very similar to it before. I have really enjoyed many books by Steven Rowley, but just didn’t love The Guncle Abroad or the first in the series. Again, not bad, I enjoyed it, but felt like I could only vaguely listen and still follow along fairly easily. Just didn’t keep my interest. I saw My Name Is Memory come up on a Facebook group and someone was trying to figure out the name of the book. it sounded interesting, so I put it on my list. The book was good, but I thought the ending fell short for me. Extra Focus was recommended to me and I felt like I could have highlighted the entire book. And finally, Mixed Feelings was a beautiful collection of poetry and art and photos by various ethnic artists and it was just lovely so well done. I quickly added this to my permanent collection.
Here are the books I read this month. Check out my Goodreads page for ⭐️ ratings of these books. I hope you find something that looks interesting to you.
Total books for the year: 55
- 🎧📱 Family Family by Laurie Frankel
- 📖 The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
- 🎧 The Summer Book Club by Susan Mallery
- 📖🎧📱 The Book Of Doors by Gareth Brown
- 🎧 The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
- 🎧 My Name Is Memory by Ann Brashares
- 📱 Extra Focus by Jesse J. Anderson
- 📱📖 Mixed Feelings by Avan Jogia
– Book Key –
🎧 - Audiobook
📖 - paperback/hardcover
📱 - ebook
👩👧👦 - read with kids
Book Randomness
- Bookstagram - @minihaysreads
- Goodreads Reading Challege
- 2024 DNF Book Count: 11 (one book on the list I have quit 3 times now, so I’m really done with it)
- Have you read any of these books? What did you think?
- How’s your reading challenge going for the year?