June was an interesting month for me. Started auditing that class which has been great fun.

It’s been forever since I’ve taken a summer school class and I had forgotten how intense and fast-paced they can be. I’ve learned a lot though so all is well.

Reading has continued apace. Despite what I said in the above paragraph about all the classwork, there has been some messing around time and so I’ve managed to read a few more books than usual.

• Best American Short Stories 1999 – Amy Tan (ed.)
• A Strange and Sublime Address – Amit Chadhuri (F)
• Diary of Hendrick Groen Aged 83 3/4 years – Hendrick Groen (F)
• By the Lake of the Sleeping Children – Luis Alberto Urrea (NF)
• Man at the Helm – Nina Stibbes (F)
• Mixed: Anthology – Chandra Prasad (F)
• Celia’s House – D. E. Stephenson (F)
• Victoria and Abdul – Shrabani Basu (NF)
• Nora Webster – Colm Toibin (F) – no blog post.

So to the numbers:

Total number of books read in June: 11. (Hooray for summer!)

Total number of pages read: 3,375 pages (av. 338).

Fiction/Non-Fiction: 7 fiction / 3 non-fiction; 0 plays. 1 DNF.

Diversity: 5 POC. 4 books by women (+  1 DNF by a woman).

Library books vs. books I owned (and thus removed from the home abode): 6 library book, 6 owned books and 1 e-book. (Not too shabby.)

Plans for July: Read lots. Read widely.

The latest jigsaw puzzle… The blue sky is driving me nuts. It remains to be seen if these final pieces make it into the whole pic or whether it is put away as is. Whenever it stops being fun, I think. 🙂