July's Book of the Month

 

Hello Everyone! I chose the picture posted above because it reminds me of reading to my daughter Mareena when she was little. Every afternoon until she was about eight or nine years old, we would take one of her books that she wanted to read or that she was reading and we would curl up together on my big bed. 

We would spend an hour or so reading a chapter of her book, and then take a nap together. Her absolutely favorite author at that time was an English author named Enid Blyton. Ahh, nice memories... 

My picks for 'Books of the Month' will be decidedly more adult these days, but they will be from almost any genre. July's Book of the Month is:

The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton

  Published as: The Secret Keeper in October 2012

Publisher: Atria Books

Birth Name: Kate Morton

Born: 1976 in Berri, South Australia

Canonical Name: Kate Morton
Pseudonyms: None

The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton was the forty-fifth book that I read in 2015. I have had this book on my TBR shelf since June 1, 2015 and it took me four days to read. I sent this book off to another good home on July 14, 2015.

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons: A Novel

50. Breathing Lessons: A Novel by Anne Tyler (1988)
Length: 327 pages
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Started: 25 July 2015
Finished: 30 July 2015
Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 9 April 2014
Why do I have it? I like contemporary fiction and have read and enjoyed several books by this author in the past.

Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years and it shows. Maggie is an easy-going free spirit: impetuous, reckless and unpredictable. Her husband Ira is Maggie's polar opposite: amazingly competent, infuriatingly practical and seemingly infallible. Yet, despite all the countless petty squabbles, annoying routines and various personal eccentricities experienced in their life together, Maggie and Ira have managed to make their marriage work for almost thirty years. 

Maggie considers herself to be a romantic matchmaker of sorts. Her life's ultimate mission is to unite people and bring couples together; whether they want to be connected or not. Ira secretly wonders if he should have married Ann Landers. In truth, Maggie is a meddler - a well-meaning meddler, yes, but a meddler nonetheless. She is a soft and loving person; who is determined to see only the innate goodness and limitless potential in the people she loves.

On a particularly hot summer day, the couple is driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania - ninety miles from their home in Baltimore - to attend the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband. During the course of that journey, with its several unexpected detours along the way - into the lives of old friends and fully grown children, into fond memories of the past and valiant, if misguided, attempts to rearrange the present - the entire intimate story of a marriage is revealed. All the expectations, the disappointments; the way children can create storms within a family; the way that wife and husband can fall in love with each other all over again; the way that everything - and nothing - changes.

When I first started reading this book, I was expecting it to be relatively uneventful; even slightly boring. However, the story really was very interesting to me. I have always enjoyed reading Anne Tyler's work - in my opinion, she always does an excellent job with characterization and plotting. This was just such a book - a quick and easy read for me; pleasant and poignant, and filled with intricately familiar and well-developed characters. I give this book an A+!

A+! - (96-100%)

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My 'Puzzle Mania' Seems to be Waning - I Think? Kinda, Sorta, Maybe?

Hello everyone! I hope that you're all just fine this morning - I certainly am! :) Anyway, I just wanted to give you an update on how I'm doing so far.

I started another jigsaw puzzle on Thursday, July 25th, right after I cleared away the first one. Although, I'm not too sure about this one. I know it sounds weird and I can't even believe that I'm actually saying this, but: It looks kind of boring! I can't even put my finger on what is boring me about this puzzle - picture, color, drabness...although, I never thought of puzzles being in any way drab.

As for my reading, I'm still reading Breathing Lessons: A Novel by Anne Tyler today. It's not necessarily the most dramatic story, I suppose, but I'm really enjoying it so far. LOL!!! ;)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Have I Spent Approximately Fifty Days to Finish Fifty Puzzles? - No, It's More Like Fifty Days to Finish Three Puzzles!

Hello everyone! I hope that you're all just fine this morning - I certainly am! :) Anyway, I just wanted to give you an update on how I'm doing so far.

I've just finished the jigsaw puzzle that I started doing on Thursday, June 25th! This is the 1000-piece puzzle of birds at a bird feeder that has taken me exactly one month to put together. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself! ;)

As for my reading, I just started reading Breathing Lessons: A Novel by Anne Tyler today - Saturday, July 25th! This is a book that I actually acquired from a Library Book Sale that Mareena and I went to in April of 2014 - Fourteen months before reading a book this time? Hoo Boy! ;)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Cammie McGovern - Eye Contact: A Novel

49. Eye Contact: A Novel by Cammie McGovern (2006)

Length: 290 pages

Genre: Contemporary Mystery

Started: 17 July 2015

Finished: 22 July 2015

Where did it come from? From Paperback Swap

How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 24 February 2015

Why do I have it? I like contemporary mysteries and have read and enjoyed several books by this author in the past.

The students of Woodside Elementary School often spend their recesses playing games as children will do. As the innocent youngsters spend their time waging mock battles on the playground, they are blissfully unaware that soon the real world will intrude into their sheltered world and shatter their childhood happiness forever. And the consequences of such a vicious crime will shake this tiny, close knit community to its very core.

During one particular recess, a little girl and boy - two students - seem to vanish without a trace. Upon further investigation, it soon comes to light that both children were last seen heading across the soccer field toward the woods behind the school. They were last seen together, but witnesses claim not to know what could have happened to them.

Hours pass before only one of them, a nine-year-old autistic boy named Adam, is found alive. Discovered several yards away from the little girl's body, hiding in the sheltering undergrowth, Adam is apparently the sole witness to an incomprehensible killing. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has since retreated into his own silent world, unable to tell anyone else what he witnessed.

Adam's mother Cara has an intimate knowledge of her son's mannerisms and attitude, and she knows of Adam's secret, silent, insulated world only too well. With her community still reeling from the shock and her son unable to help the police in their investigation, it falls to Cara to become Adam's voice as she tries to decode the puzzling events. Yet in her desperate desire to protect her son from the various cruelties of life - both inadvertent and deliberate - has Cara somehow made his world a much more dangerous place?

When another child suddenly goes missing, Adam's mother redoubles her efforts to interpret the potential clues. Cara realizes that only she can unlock her son's silence to provide the police with the clues that they need to catch a killer. She knows that when she is finally able to interpret the changes in Adam's behavior, she will not only understand how to better help him deal with the trauma of having witnessed his best friend's murder, she will also have helped the police to solve an horrendous crime. Yet as Cara moves closer to exposing the truth of what happened, her own unsettling past begins to emerge from the shadows.

I thought this was really an excellent book. In my opinion, this was an intriguing and well-written story with a well-developed and fast-paced plot. I found that there was a vibrant poignancy to Ms. McGovern's writing, and I found myself learning and understanding more about the hardships and struggles faced by the parents of autistic children. I could really empathize with Cara and the various difficulties that she had raising her son. I would certainly give this book an A! and definitely will be on the lookout for more books by Cammie McGovern.

A! - (90-95%)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Puzzles, Puzzles Everywhere!

Hello everyone! I hope that you're all just fine this morning - I certainly am! :) Anyway, I just wanted to give you an update on how I'm doing so far.

I'm about halfway done with the jigsaw puzzle that I started doing on Thursday, June 25th! This is the 1000-piece puzzle of birds at a bird feeder that has taken me approximately twenty-five days to put together. The length of time it has taken me to do this particular puzzle seems to be almost a coincidence to me - I started this puzzle on Thursday, June 25th, and it has taken me twenty-five days to get as far with the puzzle as I have! :)

As for my reading, I just started reading Eye Contact: A Novel by Cammie McGovern two days ago - on Friday, July 17th! This is a book that Mareena actually acquired for me from Paperback Swap as her 'just because' gift for February. A five-month long stint on my bookshelf before reading doesn't seem so horrible, I suppose! ;) lol!!!

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Richard Paul Evans - Timepiece

48. Timepiece by Richard Paul Evans (1996)

The Christmas Box Trilogy Book 2

Length: 236 pages

Genre: Historical Fiction

Started: 15 July 2015

Finished: 16 July 2015

Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale

How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 1 June 2015

Why do I have it? I like historical fiction and Richard Paul Evans is a new author for me.

In 1967, on the eve of his daughter's wedding, a man reflects on his memories of her childhood as well as the gift that his one time employer has bequeathed to him to give to her. Nineteen years previously, only eleven days before her death, a loving widow named MaryAnne Parkin had gifted a beautiful rose-gold wristwatch to her household caretaker, Richard. She had only one request: that he give the beautiful heirloom to his then toddler daughter on the day before he would give her away. At the time, he is puzzled by her simple request, yet deeply touched by her kindness.

The story of how the wristwatch came to belong to MaryAnne, forms the basis of Timepiece - the prequel to Richard Paul Evans' heartwarming holiday classic, The Christmas Box. In 1908-era Salt Lake City, Utah, millionaire businessman and avid collector of clocks, David Parkin hires one MaryAnne Chandler - originally from England - to be his secretary. Thoughtful and sensitive David is the owner of the highly successful Parkin Machinery Co., and the spirited and spunky MaryAnne will someday become his wife.

Fragments of David's journal highlight this tale of the couple's courtship, marriage, and the development of their family. The elegantly fashionable rose-gold wristwatch was originally bequeathed to David's friend Lawrence Flake, a black man who repairs clocks. This priceless heirloom eventually passes into David's possession through a series of events which culminates in an horrific family tragedy.

In the devastating aftermath of such a tragedy, David and MaryAnne will each discover the extraordinary healing power of love, loyalty and forgiveness. Their shared experiences will ultimately prove that even in our darkest moments, we are still capable of shining the brightest light, demonstrating the incredible strength and remarkable resilience of the human spirit while revealing the best qualities of humanity; even as we suffer unspeakable cruelty.

I actually didn't think that I was going to enjoy this book quite as much as I did. However, I found the story to be extremely evocative and poignant. I found that the characters were very believable and I truly connected with them as they went through their various trials and tribulations. I would give this book a definite A!

A! - (90-95%)

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Denise Mina - The Dead Hour: A Novel

47. The Dead Hour: A Novel by Denise Mina (2006)

The Paddy Meehan Series Book 2

Length: 341 pages

Genre: Contemporary Mystery

Started: 10 July 2015

Finished: 14 July 2015

Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale

How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 9 April 2014

Why do I have it? I like contemporary mysteries and Denise Mina is a new author for me.

Investigative journalist Patricia 'Paddy' Meehan had always thought that she would be further along on her career path after spending three years in her chosen field. Yet, even three years after breaking a big story, Paddy is still working the perpetual night shift with her newspaper - The Scottish Daily News. She's still chasing police calls for that one story which will finally promote her out of the solitary, twilight existence that makes mountains of candy bars and multiple cups of coffee practically a medical necessity. With her father and brothers chronically unemployed and her family perilously short of money, Paddy desperately needs the work.

Responding with the police to a particular late-night call, Paddy arrives at an elegant villa. The loud noise complaint called into the police seems to be fairly run-of-the-mill to her; especially when the domestic dispute that prompted such a call seems to be calming down. As a matter of fact, a domestic disturbance in such a wealthy Scottish suburb doesn't seem all that unusual an occurrence to Paddy - at first. The police officers actually don't seem all that concerned by the situation before them; letting the man who answers the door off with just a warning to keep the noise down.

Paddy can see that the elegant blonde woman standing in the shadows of the doorway is bleeding from an apparent head injury. But the woman also clearly doesn't want any help; and the well-dressed, ingratiating man at the front door assures Paddy that everything is just fine and that she should leave. Paddy wonders how the police were so easily convinced to leave the area after issuing just a warning. She soon has her answer when the man slips a significant amount of cash into her hand; asking her to make sure that she keeps any mention of the incident, whatever it is, out of the press. Then he firmly closes the door in her face.

The next morning Paddy happens to see a television news report. The lead news story is absolutely horrific: the blonde woman's body has been discovered. She was murdered; brutally beaten, tortured and left to die. Far from being the spoiled trophy wife Paddy had assumed her to be, the victim turns out to be a prosecution lawyer with a social conscience.

Bewildered as to why the woman wouldn't accept any help and leave the house when she could, Paddy begins to make connections that no one else can see. When she witnesses the body of a suicide victim being pulled from the river shortly afterwards, Paddy suspects that the two deaths are linked in some way. Paddy is determined to follow her reporter's instincts all the way with this particular story; it's exactly the type of story that will make her or break her...or kill her.

Denise Mina is a new author for me, and this is the first book that I've ever read by her. I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, I found myself really connecting with the main character, Paddy. She was a feisty, capable person, a hardworking woman in a man's world who doesn't suffer fools kindly. She's not afraid to call things as she sees them; and she is quite willing to go head to head with whomever it is that she suspects is in the wrong. She is also vulnerable, fallible, and she makes mistakes; yet she also does her utmost to fix those mistakes to the best of her ability.

In my opinion, this was a fast-paced and very involved mystery. I found that I really had to concentrate while reading because with all the intricate twists and turns in the plot, this book really kept me on my toes with regards to potential suspects. Overall, I would give this book a definite A! and look forward to reading more from this author in the future.

A! - (90-95%)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

My 'Puzzle Mania' Usually Comes in Cycles, But This Episode is Lasting Longer Than Most!

Hello everyone! I hope that you're all just fine this morning - I certainly am! :) Anyway, I just wanted to give you an update on how I'm doing so far.

Well, since it only took me eight days to finish that second puzzle that I picked up from the Library Book Sale that Mareena and I went to on Monday, June 1st, I've decided to try my luck with a third jigsaw puzzle from the batch of five that I got myself during that Library visit. This particular jigsaw puzzle is of birds at a bird feeder; and it looks rather challenging, in my opinion. I started doing this particular jigsaw puzzle on Thursday, June 25th; right after I had cleared the last puzzle from my table.

Actually, considering that I've been reading voraciously as well, I'm content to be only about a quarter the way through this puzzle - it is 1000 pieces, after all!!! LOL! So far, I've finished a total of five books, and am maybe about two chapters into my sixth. Not too bad, if I do say so myself! :)

I actually started reading The Dead Hour: A Novel by Denise Mina yesterday morning - Friday, July 10th! This is a book that I acquired from a Library Book Sale that Mareena and I went to in April of 2014, so with just over a year between acquisition and reading; I don't feel too bad for waiting to read this book. So far, I'm really enjoying it! ;)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Elizabeth Berg - The Art of Mending: A Novel

46. The Art of Mending: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg (2004)

Length: 237 pages

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Started: 8 July 2015

Finished: 9 July 2015

Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale

How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 1 June 2015

Why do I have it? I like contemporary fiction and Elizabeth Berg is a new author for me.

Laura Bartone always anticipates her annual family reunion with the usual amount of excitement and wariness. Traveling all the way to Minnesota to see her family each year is certainly wonderful, yet Laura also can't deny that in a small portion of her heart, she secretly dreads going to the family reunion each year. Laura loves her family deeply - yet somehow, whenever she is around her sister Caroline and her brother Steve - Laura can feel the mutual tension building between them, as well as the mutual desire to get away. Yet this year's gathering will prove to be even more trying than either she or her siblings could have imagined.

It all begins when Laura receives a cryptic phone call from her younger sister Caroline. Caroline has always been regarded as the family's restless black sheep; forever wrapped up in her memories of the past, so for her to make a desperate phone call in the middle of the night is typical behavior. As much as Laura tries to be the understanding, supportive sister, she knows that Caroline has always had a dramatic flair when remembering certain events from the past, so Laura takes what she hears with a pinch of salt.

However, as soon as Laura arrives in Minnesota, she realizes that something is definitely wrong with her sister. Caroline's entire demeanor just doesn't seem right. When she eventually confronts Laura and their brother, Steve, with devastating allegations about their mother, the three have a difficult time reconciling their varying experiences while living in the same house. And it is the sudden revelation of such astounding secrets - secrets that have subsequently shaped the personalities and fates of all three siblings, that now threaten to tear them apart.

Yet a sudden misfortune will lead them all to face the past, their own culpability, and their common need for love and forgiveness. In The Art of Mending - a novel which is her most profound and emotionally satisfying story to date - Elizabeth Berg confronts some of the deepest mysteries of life, as she explores how even the largest sins can be forgiven by the smallest gestures, and how grace can come to many through the trials of one.

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. In my opinion, this was a fast-paced, well-developed story; filled with vibrant and brilliantly nuanced characters that really resonated with me emotionally. I give this book a definite A+! and will be eagerly awaiting Ms. Berg's next novel with baited breath.

A+! - (96-100%)

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Kate Morton - The Secret Keeper: A Novel

45. The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton (2012)

Length: 484 pages

Genre: Contemporary Mystery
Started: 4 July 2015
Finished: 8 July 2015
Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 1 June 2015
Why do I have it? I like contemporary mysteries and Kate Morton is a new author for me.

At a summer garden party in the 1960's, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has finally managed to slip away during a children's game of hide and seek. In the family's farmhouse situated in the rural English countryside, Laurel has escaped to her childhood treehouse and is happily dreaming of the future. Suddenly, way off in the distance, she spies a stranger walking along the road towards the farmhouse and watches as her mother speaks to him.

Although she doesn't realize it at the time, before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that will ultimately challenge everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy - her vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother. Laurel's happiness and contentment with her life will be shaken to its foundation, and rediscovering her peace of mind will subsequently lead her on the journey of a lifetime.

Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and highly-regarded actress living in London. The family has gathered at Greenacres farm to celebrate Dorothy's ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may very well be her last chance, Laurel seizes her opportunity and searches for the answers to questions that still haunt her from that long-ago day. Answers that can only be found buried deep in Dorothy's past.

Dorothy's story spans the years from pre-World War II England through the blitz, into the 1960's and beyond. It is the shared secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds - Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy - who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are subsequently forever entwined. The Secret Keeper: A Novel explores longings and dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometimes bring. This is an unforgettable story of lovers and friends, deception and passion that is told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The story captured my attention right away and I was completely intrigued by the mystery. The mystery was certainly engrossing to me, and the plot was extremely dramatic and filled with quite a few unexpected twists and turns. I give The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton an A+! I will be sure to put this author's name on my Wish List.

A+! - (96-100%)

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Barbara Michaels - Other Worlds

44. Other Worlds by Barbara Michaels (1999)

Length: 217 pages

Genre: Historical Mystery
Started: 30 June 2015
Finished: 4 July 2015
Where did it come from? From a Library Book Sale
How long has it been on my TBR pile? Since 30 October 2001
Why do I have it? I like historical mysteries and have read and enjoyed several books by this author in the past.

One foggy evening, the members of the illustrious Society For Psychical Research meet in the smoking room of an exclusive London men's club. Amid the glowing cigars, decanters of brandy, and the charming air of camaraderie, sit men who are the acknowledged geniuses within their various specialties. They are considered some of the most famous crime specialists in the world, and are gathered together with mystery on their minds. On the agenda for tonight's program are two tantalizing, unsolved cases of ghostly terror.

Some of the greatest minds are represented in this group, and all those present eagerly turn their considerable powers of deductive reasoning to the cases at hand. Those present for tonight's performance include, Harry Houdini; the king of illusion; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, father of the modern detective novel; and Dr. Nandor Fodor, a psychoanalyst of international acclaim. Tonight's special guest is an elegant writer herself, who can rival them all with her sleuthing talent.

These eminent masters of mystery will set their minds to unraveling the intricacies in a pair of gripping stories - stories of two families beset by poltergeists' pranks and bewitched by inexplicable otherworldly horrors. Gripping puzzles, to be sure, but these families terror is all too vicious and all too real. In the hollows of Tennessee, a family is threatened by a spirit's dire predictions of despair and death that come true with a frightening reality. In a small Connecticut town, a recently remarried widow and her young children move into her second husband's home and soon find their lives possessed by some unimaginable demonic entity.

For those in attendance at the club this evening, a brilliant battle of wits has begun. Were these villainous evil doers actually phantoms from beyond the grave or miscreants who were grounded more solidly in the world of flesh and blood reality? Each expert has an opportunity to voice their own theories. Which of them is correct?

In my opinion, this was a great book to read. I found the story to be thoroughly interesting and remarkably well-grounded in a Gothic atmosphere. I give Other Worlds by Barbara Michaels an A+!  

To be perfectly honest, neither one of these cases was resolved to my full satisfaction, yet the book still captured my interest and held it all the way through to the end. Actually, of each of the stories presented, I found the second one, 'The Stratford Haunting', perhaps the most interesting one. I must say that I have read and enjoyed several books by Ms. Michaels in the past - a name which is one of the two pseudonyms used by renowned author and Egyptologist, Barbara Mertz. Dr. Mertz also wrote historical mysteries under the pseudonym Elizabeth Peters, as well as several non-fiction books on the study of Egyptology under her own name.

A+! - (96-100%)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

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 1,031 books lying around the house and ended the month with 1,024 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from a Library Book Sale Mareena and I went to on June 1st and Paperback Swap.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Changes to the TBR pile

Rereads
- Every Last One: A Novel by Anna Quindlen

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Guilty or Innocent? by Anita Gustafson
- Cover of Snow: A Novel by Jenny Milchman
- The Woods by Harlan Coben
- I Couldn't Love You More: A Novel by Jillian Medoff
- A Good Woman by Danielle Steel
- The Christmas Promise: A Novel by Donna VanLiere

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab
- The Art of Mending: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
- Better Homes and Gardens Calorie-Trimmed Recipes by Better Homes and Gardens
- Better Homes and Gardens Good Food and Fitness by Bonnie Lasater
- Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens
- Dark Paradise by Tami Hoag
- A Density of Souls: A Novel by Christopher Rice
- End in Tears by Ruth Rendell
- Gerald's Game by Stephen King
- Groundswell: A Novel by Katie Lee
- Hunting Sweetie Rose by Jack Frederickson
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs
- The Language of Sisters: A Novel by Amy Hatvany
- Love in Bloom: A Novel by Sheila Roberts
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Ordeal by Ice: The Search For the Northwest Passage by Farley Mowat
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
- Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
- Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
- Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
- The Secret Keeper: A Novel by Kate Morton
- Shelter Me by Juliette Fay
- Southern Living 2006 Annual Recipes by Southern Living Magazine
- Stone Creek by Victoria Lustbader
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Timepiece by Richard Paul Evans
- Very Old Bones by William Kennedy
- Hunger Point: A Novel by Jillian Medoff

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Calories and Carbohydrates by Barbara Kraus
- All Through the Night: A Suspense Story by Mary Higgins Clark
- While my Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Margaret Boyles Bargello Workbook: A Collection of Original Designs by Margaret Boyles
- The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
- Holidays in Cross Stitch, 1990: The Vanessa Ann Collection by The Vanessa-Ann Collection
- The Rich Are Different by Susan Howatch
- Stardust by Robert B. Parker
- The Tangent Objective by Lawrence Sanders
- Irish History For Dummies by Mike Cronin
- The Wee Book of Irish Wit and Malarkey by Sean McCann and Paul Ryan
- Country-Style Stenciling: With 8 Ready-To-Use, Pre-Cut Plastics by Margaret Boyles
- Cover of Snow: A Novel by Jenny Milchman
- Heat by William Goldman
- Guilty or Innocent? by Anita Gustafson

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

Books Read: 7
Pages Read: 2,122
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

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