Short books, but great reads in June!
I participated in Reading the Meow,
and am hosting Six in Six – you can link your own post until July 31.
📚 Here is what I read in June:
11 books
8 in print
= with 1,552 pages, a daily average of 51 pages/day
3 in audio
= 17H43, a daily average of 35 minutes/day
2 in scifi:
- More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon – audio
- The Inheritors, by William Golding
2 in mystery:
- Rien qu’une belle perdue (Une enquête du commandant Gaspard Cloux, 2), by Eric Fouassier
- Le Flair du petit docteur, by Georges Simenon
2 in nonfiction:
- The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution, by Jonathan Hennessey – graphic-“novel” format
- Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness, by David Attenborough & Colin Butfield – audio
2 in literary fiction:
- Thomasina, by Paul Gallico
- A Madman’s Diary, Xun Lu (one short story) – audio
2 in manga / cat adventures:
- Cat + Crazy #3, by Wataru Nadatani
- The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today #1, by Hitsuzi Yamada
1 in poetry:
- Red Bird, by Mary Oliver
📚 Total of books read in 2026 = 61/150
(41%, 12 books behind for my Goodreads challenge)
📚 Classics Club 5th list: 79/100 (from December 2024-until November 2029)
📚 Japanese Literature Challenge 19: 5/5 books
+ 3 books outside the challenge dates
📚 Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge (#HYH26) (hosted by Neeru) = 1/4 + 1 DNF
📚 BookBound: 8 in 2024, 8 in 2025, 6 in 2026
📚 Number of books added to my TBR this past month = 23
Compared to my monthly goals: not too good!
- Compared to My June TBR = 5/7 (+ 2 DNF)
1 book for my BookBound projectFrom my TBR: 1 book in print- a book in Spanish/Italian – alternate = in process
- From my TBR: the last one I ran into on a blog, etc = 1
- From my TBR: from my jar or 1 I recently added to my TBR = 2
- From my TBR: 2 classics at least = 5
1 audiobook in French
📚 In June,
– I traveled to: China, France, Japan, Scotland, and US
– 5 books published between 1926-1957
– I read 3 book in translation (from the Chinese and Japanese)
– and 2 books in French
– 6 books came from my public library
– I DNFed 2 books (click on the link to see why):
The Blind Woman of Sorrento, by Francesco Mastriani
Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams – not in the mood for this right now
📚 Special projects I did in June:
- I participated in Reading the Meow
- and am hosting Six in Six – you can link your own post until July 31.
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