Books read in June

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A book that was turned into a musical: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (May 9-June 3). Wow, THAT was an accomplishment haha..probably the longest book I've ever read. It was interesting, but a bit TOO detailed haha. For example: "Who destroyed this? It was the improvisation of ferment. Here! This door! This grating! This weatherboard! This window-frame! This broken brazier! This cracked pot! Hand it all over! Throw it all on! Push, roll, dig, dismantle, overturn, bring everything down! It was the collaboration of cobblestone, rubble-stone, wooden beam, iron bar, broken tile, bottomless chair, cabbage-stalk, rags, tags, tatters, and execration." When I was in the hospital, I amused myself and mom with reading sentences like those..no wonder the book is so long LOL. I'd like to see the musical on stage someday..

A book that came out in a year that ends with "24": The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (June 4-7). I was SO excited when I heard this was coming out, because I loved his other books..I definitely pre-ordered it haha. It wasn't quite as good as the other two, but still interesting. I like how unique his books are!

A second-chance romance: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (June 8-11)

An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (June 12-13). Probably a stretch, but I read somewhere pop is a sub-genre of rock. I remember when she released her first two albums, and became obsessed like so many other kids haha..I think I even had a Britney Spears Barbie! It was awful reading about how controlling her father was, ugh..I hope she'll be able to heal from everything she's gone through..

A book originally published under a pen name: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (June 14-18). Like the first one in the series, I actually guessed who the murderer was! Now I'm addicted to this series haha. The TV show is pretty good too! I like that the main character is disabled (he lost part of his leg in Afghanistan and has a prosthetic leg). I guess having a disability myself, I'm drawn to other disabled people lol

A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (June 19-22). Omg this book was AWFUL. "Yours in calendrical heresy"??? Stuff about "invariant ice" and the "hexarchate" and using math formulas to do battle in space..ugh, please stop. Definitely not reading the other two in the series :/

A book with a main character who's 42 years old: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (June 22-25). Meh

A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (June 23-29). Lovers to enemies and then lovers again haha. I was actually reading this at the same time as State of Wonder, I was addicted and wanted to keep watching the TV show! The murderer sent the detective's partner a leg, and while she was horrified he was like "it's not even my size!" OMG haha. The fourth one in the series is now on my nightstand..I must read them all!! Haha


A book with the word "leap" in the title
A bildungsroman
A book about a 24-year-old
A book about a writer
A book about K-pop
A book about pirates
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
A book by a blind or visually impaired author
A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author
A book by a self-published author
A book from a genre you typically avoid
A book from an animal's POV
A book originally published under a pen name
A book recommended by a bookseller
A book recommended by a librarian
A book set 24 years before you were born
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
A book set in space
A book set in the future
A book set in the snow
A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"
A book that centers on video games
A book that features dragons
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours
A book that was published 24 years ago
A book that was turned into a musical
A book where someone dies in the first chapter
A book with a main character who's 42 years old
A book with a neurodivergent main character
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
A book with a title that is a complete sentence
A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot
A book with an unreliable narrator
A book with at least three POVs
A book with magical realism
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
A book written during NaNoWriMo
A cozy fantasy book
A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
A horror book by a BIPOC author
A memoir that explores queerness
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
A second-chance romance
An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll
An LGBTQ+ romance novel

Advanced
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours
A book with 24 letters in the title
A collection of at least 24 poems
The 24th book of an author
A book that starts with the letter "X"


The cooler weather and rain finally came!! (Thanks, Siberia :P) It's supposed to last all this week. It's still pretty smoky, but the rain has slowed the growth of the fires. A new one started yesterday at Denali National Park, across from where the hotels and shops are..that one they are fighting and the park is closed. Scary! It's still very hot at work, but hopefully it'll cool off this week..

29. Do You Have Childhood Memories of Being Read Aloud To? Oh yes, mom loved reading to me and Ryan! She even made a hand puppet thing which read to us too haha

30. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Picky Eater? Yeah, always have been, though I've learned to like other things as I've gotten older (not kale, peanuts and mushrooms though..gross D:)

July 1. How Easy — or Hard — Is It for You to Say No When You Want To? It just depends on the situation