Also in June was a big family vacation that I'll be posting pictures of soon!
4 Books Read in June: (44 year-to-date)
1 for Book Club:
- Wild, Cheryl Strayed (2) [Rather pointless, as I don't think she went "from lost to found"...she seemed to stay pretty lost throughout. see my review on GoodReads]
1 Classic:
- Eugene Onegin and Other Poems, Alexander Pushkin (3) [Reading this was work - no joke - and I was quite proud of myself for finishing it. I much prefer prose to poetry.]
2 from my Wishlist:
- Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki (3.5) [More emotionally detached than I was expecting, but still interesting and relevant, both historically and (for me) geographically.]
- The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness (4) [Not my preferred genre or topic, but still an engrossing read that sucked me in.]
3 Current Reads:
- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. Wonderful. And LONG. What else can I say?
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck. almost done almost done almost done
- Flapper: The Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, Joshua Zeitz. This has been a fun addition to the nonfiction about the '20s and '30s I've read recently
On My Nightstand:
I still haven't gotten around to all the books from my last glut at the book store, so I'm still hoping to get to all those, with the addition of a couple of books on loan from my book club friends. How many do you think I'll be able to get through in the next couple weeks?
- The Sufferings of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
- The Dog Stars, Peter Heller.
- The Great Crash 1929, John Galbraith.
- Hard Times, Studs Terkel.
- Mary Coin, Marisa Silver.
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- Kiss Kiss, Roald Dahl
