June 2022 Wrap Up: apparently I read a lot

~reading

How many books that I planned did I read?

I planned 6 books in my June TBR and of those I read 4, with one in progress and one not started. But in total, I read 15 books so… I guess I plowed through anyway.

The Plan:

A mix of library loans of new releases and books I had on my shelves but hadn’t read, this was the goal for June.

The Result:

WOWW did I ever want to abandon two other books in this list: Crying in H Mart and Remarkably Bright Creatures were both duds for me in different ways, and I super wanted to stop reading them. But since I’ve met my quantity goal for the year, I’m pushing myself to read more widely and things I might not usually try. That includes continuing with books even when they’re a struggle or I would usually ditch them due to my mood-reader-ness. I think the slog of those are partly why I read so much: trying to break them up to make them more palatable. xD

Besides those two, I plowed through a ton of other books. I peg this largely on the 20 (15) books of summer challenge that i joined a little bit into June where you have to read and review a certain number of books in the summer. I may have gone aggressively into that list, and even posted ONLY reviews for like a week straight which was an interesting experiment.

Here’s a massive list of all the reviews that came up in June, because I went on an absolute tear there for a minute.

• ARC Review: We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo
• Review: Pachinko by Lee Min-jin
• Review: The Noh Family by Grace K. Shim
• Review: Soundless by Richelle Mead
• Review: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• Review: A Hundred Silent Ways by Marie Jojie
• Review: A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
• Review: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Review: Lucie Yi Is Not a Romantic by Lauren Ho
• Review: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
• Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Phew!

~stats

Last month I put an unnecessary amount of time into creating my own charts and graphs and such of my reading tracker, on top of all the wonderful charts and graphs and data that Storygraph tracks for me. So to showcase that a bit, here’s a little section for all the data people like me out there to drool over. 😍

• My reading was 7% Nonfiction this month (and the remaining 93% fiction).
• My top genres were Young Adult (8 books) and Romance (7 books).
• I mostly read books that were emotional, adventurous, or lighthearted.
• My average rating was 3 stars out of 5. I read a total of 5,958 pages in May.
• I traveled to South Korea, Japan, France, and even the Underworld through my books. In the United States, I was in Washington, California, and Boston.

~life

Well if you missed it, my puppy got spayed last month so we had to live with the dreaded CONE! It was my first time dealing with it and wow was it annoying. I felt super bad for her constantly bumping into things even though it was also kind of funny. Plus we couldn’t play or even go for walks for a while to make sure she healed alright. And of course I was super anxious for most of it since it was all new to me and I didn’t want there to be any issues.

Besides that, it was YET ANOTHER crazy hectic month at work with another massive project. End of June means end of the insanity, and thank goodness for that. Although… I might have signed up for another massive project or two. 😅 I’m never going to learn, am I?

~blog

It’s another milestone month with more views than ever! I posted almost every day so I’m sure that contributed. I found it interesting that even for the weekish where I only posted reviews, views didn’t drop despite popular belief in the blogging community that reviews don’t get views (or as many, anyway).

Here are some of my favorite posts I worked on this month, in case you missed them!

• Mid-Year Challenge Check-in
• 20 (well, 15) books of summer sign up!
• “30 Books Ahead of Schedule”
• Review: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• Review: Soundless by Richelle Mead
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books with a unit of time in the title

And here are some of my favorite posts by other bloggers!

• Why I Don’t Read ARCs by Heather @ The Frozen Library (this one is actually from a few years ago, but I thought it was a really interesting read!)
• 4 x 4 – Four Books for Each Season by TK @ Genie in a Novel ( a lot of new ones for me on here!)
• The A-Z Book Tag! by Leslie @ Books are the New Black (I’m DEFINITELY stealing this one ^.^)
• The Radium Girls Book Review by Jordann @thebookbloglife (and there’s a graphic novel coming out next week, too!)
• Book Blogger Stats Survey Results: 2022 by Briana @ Pages Unbound (I love this series of insight into book blogger stats and expectations! Can you guess which quote was mine? 😊)
• What Makes the Perfect Reading Space? by Kristin @ Kristin Kraves Books (if we take all the ideas in here from the comments it would be an incredible space haha)
• 9 Years of Blogging – some reflections and a Q&A! by Katja @ Life and Other Disasters (CONGRATS!!!! The past years were interesting to read through and compare, too 😊)
• Top Ten Tuesday ~ Free Short Fiction by Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits (FREE FICTION!! Recommending “For Lack of a Bed” by the way.)
• Book Review: Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong by Dini @ Dinipanda Reads (I wasn’t interested in finishing this duology, but wanted to get a sense of how it wrapped up. Thankfully, Dini liked it, but I think I made the right choice for myself to skip it lol)