Reading Wrap-up for June at Moonshine and Rosefire

 

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out June with about 622 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 617 books unread. All of the books that I acquired this month came from a library book sale we went to on the 1st to celebrate Mareena's birthday, as well as Paperback Swap; I have bought books though the library book sale this month (50 cents for paperbacks, $1.00 for hardcovers. The money goes to help our library's upkeep and stocking some latest releases.) We generally try to go to the library once a month if we can.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:


Changes to the TBR pile 


Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
- The Ice House by Nina Bawden
- To See a Fine Lady by Norah Lofts
- The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
- The Brittle Glass by Norah Lofts 

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Claudia's Shadow by Charlotte Vale Allen
- My Beloved Son by Catherine Cookson
- Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties by Sara Davidson
- An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
- Now You Know by Kitty Dukakis and Jane Scovell
- Family Treason: The Walker Spy Case by Jack Kneece
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal
- Crescent City by Belva Plain
- The Letters by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger
- The Case of Lucy Bending by Lawrence Sanders
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- Horror House by J. N. Williamson
- House Sensation: Spirited and Stylish Home Decoration by Anne McKevitt
- The Doctor's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Deception and Two Gruesome Deaths by John Glatt
- Home Decorating With Needlecrafts by Linda Lee Lindgren
- Out of the Dark by Norah Lofts

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Duma Key Stephen King
- Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
- The Godmother: The True Story of the Hunt For the Most Bloodthirsty Female Criminal in Our Time, Griselda Blanco by Richard Smitten
- Encyclopedia of 312 Scroll Saw Designs by John La Forge
- New Selected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 1, 328
Grade Range: A+! to C+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was June. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)


Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight