June bug

June was another busy month as I’m up to my neck in deadlines, which I expect to continue through July. I still got through a good chunk of reading list though (mostly while shacked up in lonely hotel rooms around the country – oh well, we’ve not been having much of a summer so it’s not like I’m missing out on anything more exciting…).

77. ★★★☆☆ A Life Discarded by Alexander Masters
78. ★★★★☆ The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
79. ★★★☆☆ Crafting Your Plot by Greg Mosse
80. ★★★★☆ The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
81. ★★★★☆ The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
82. ★★★☆☆ The Da Vinci Curse by Leonardo Lospennato
83. ★★★★☆ The Festival of Insignificance: A Novel by Milan Kundera
84. ★★★☆☆ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
85. ★★★★☆ Rain by Melissa Harrison
86. ★★★★☆ The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
87. ★★★★☆ Persepolis, Volume 1 by Marjane Satrapi
88. ★★★★☆ Persepolis, Volume 2 by Marjane Satrapi
89. ★★★★☆ Persepolis, Volume 3 by Marjane Satrapi
90. ★★★★☆ Persepolis, Volume 4 by Marjane Satrapi
91. ★★★★☆ The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
92. ★★★☆☆ A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
93. ★★★☆☆ Heartburn by Nora Ephron
94. ★★★☆☆ The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

I knocked six off the big reading challenge in June, though in truth I let a few of them overlap and tick more than one box this month! I’ll maybe try and make up for it later in the year if I can by reading another one or two in the same categories:-

• A classic romance
• A book that became a movie
• A book with a colour in the title
• A graphic novel
• A banned book
• A memoir

I’m getting down to the ones that are a bit harder to squeeze in as they’re not quite the type that are on my reading list, so it’ll be an interesting challenge to see how I find them.