June Reading Wrap-Up and a List of July Possibilities

Despite the recent heat wave, June has been a very good month. For the first time in what feels like years, we went an entire month without traveling! Our oldest daughter and son-in-law spent some time with us as they closed on their new house, and a week later everyone was here for Father's Day. It's been wonderful to stay close to home and enjoy the CT shoreline.

The reading was good this month, too. I finished six books! That's a lot for me, but most of them were on the short side. Now I'm caught up with book club selections, and look forward to a month of commitment-free reading in July. 

BOOKS READ IN JUNE

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

My favorite book of the year so far!

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The Annotated Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A beautifully annotated edition of a favorite classic

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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

nonfiction, especially good on audio

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Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

Murakami's first published work, book #1 of The Rat series, for book club

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Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami

The Rat #2, for book club

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The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

debut fiction, MMD July selection

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JULY READING POSSIBILITIES

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (in progress)

Bel Canto: The Annotated Edition by Ann Patchett 

True Grit by Charles Portis

Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Dracula Daily (ongoing, real time read-along)

Also in July//

We're going to central NY to spend the long 4th of July weekend with family, and are looking forward to my sister-in-law's visit here mid-month. "The kids" will all be around to help celebrate my birthday later in the month. With no big travel plans ahead, I'm looking forward to plenty of porch reading!

How was your month? What was you favorite June book?