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What have you all got planned for June?

May turned out to be a poor reading month for me but hopefully June will be better! I don't have many plans except for the buddy read of Atlas Shrugged and a couple of mysteries - Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout & Children of War by Martin Walker.

Leslie wrote: "May turned out to be a poor reading month for me but hopefully June will be better! I don't have many plans except for the buddy read of Atlas Shrugged and a couple of mysteries -."

I've started today my first Stout! Incredible enogh I had never read before a Nero Wolf!!!
But I've started not frm the beginning - as I'd have preferred - but to follow sme friends I'm reading Too Many Cooks, the fifth

The only mandatory read this upcoming month is A Guide To The Louvre. After that it's all fun and games!

I need to finish up The Unseen World and Valley of the Dolls. Then:

On the Road
Turtles All the Way Down
The Aviator's Wife
The Lost Wife

This is the second month I have tried to plan ahead in order to meet Goodreads and personal Challenges.
Managed to read 21 books in May so this is my provisional wishlist for this month's reading:-
Stranger Child by Rachel Abbott - FINISHED 10/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
Guilt by Jussi Adler-Olsen - FINISHED 21/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Fish That Climbed a Tree by Kevin Ansbro - FINISHED 3/6/20 - 5* (10/10)
The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker
When I'm Gone by Emily Bleeker
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne - FINISHED 8/6/20 - 5* (10/10)
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg - FINISHED 15/6/20 - 4* (8.5/10)
The Stranger by Harlan Coben
Middlemarch by George Eliot - FINISHED 30/6/20 - 3* (7/10)
Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton - FINISHED 11/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner - FINISHED 14/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
Scared to Death by Rachel Amphlett - FINISHED 16/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler - FINISHED 28/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty - FINISHED 5/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina - CURRENTLY READING
Kill For Me by Karen Rose
Flank Street: In The Sydney Underworld by A.J. Sendall - FINISHED 24/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
Safe With Me by K.L. Slater
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux - FINISHED 18/6/20 - 4* (9/10)
Chasing the Dead by Tim Weaver

COMPLETED 13/23 + 'coffee table' book: White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, 1964-70 by Dominic Sandbrook - 4* (9/10)

LauraT wrote: "I've started today my first Stout! Incredible enogh I had never read before a Nero Wolf!!!
But I've started not frm the beginning - as I'd have preferred - but to follow sme friends I'm reading Too Many Cooks, the fifth..."

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, his assistant, are such fun for mystery fans. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do - I remember that Too Many Cooks has Wolfe leaving his home, which is pretty unusual.

My book for this month is The Secret Garden. I have read most of the children’s classics when I was young, but somehow missed this one. I am loving it.

Kim wrote: "This is the second month I have tried to plan ahead in order to meet Goodreads and personal Challenges.
Managed to read 21 books in May so this is my provisional wishlist for this month's reading:..."

Good luck with your list Kim.

Here are my plans:

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Bone Crier's Moon by Kathryn Purdie
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor by Rachael Hearson
Feathertide by Beth Cartwright
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

THese my next books; I don't know if I'll manage all of them this month...

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Audur Ava Olafsdottir Miss Islanda
Matteo Bussola L'invenzione di noi due
Linn Ullman Prima che tu dorma

Johnathan Coe Number 11
Karmen Korn Aria di novità
Anna Maria Ortese Il mare non bagna Napoli
Isabelle Artus La ragazza che voleva diventare una geisha
Wene Wilder Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
Claudio Strinati Il giardino dell'arte: Il romanzo di un viaggio fra le meraviglie d'Italia
William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2
Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
Tayari Jones An American Marriage
Phyllis A Whitney Black Amber

I'm planning to read:
The Rise of Endymion
Oryx and Crake
Wolf & Parchment, Vol. 2: New Theory Spice & Wolf
Alaska
The Invisibles 1-4 (deluxe editions)
Dawn

Gavin wrote: "I'm planning to read:
The Rise of Endymion
Oryx and Crake
Wolf & Parchment, Vol. 2: New Theory Spice & Wolf
Alaska
The Invisibles 1-4 (deluxe ..."

I have been wanting to read Oryx and Crake for so long. I don't know how it's slipped through.

Updated my list at Message 6 - now read 9 of my planned reads with The Missing by Tim Gautreaux plus an 'unplanned' read which is a coffee-table book I have been dipping into for a while - White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, 1964-70 by Dominic Sandbrook - rated both of these 9/10 (4*).

Ended the month having completed the classic Middlemarch by George Eliot
- rated this one 3* (7/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ended the month having only completed 13 of 23 provisionally-targeted books - the remainder will be rolled over to future months. Won't have to be so ambitious in future!!