I am posting pictures of flowers since DC is just gray and rainy. I don't recall what a blue sky even looks like these days. Hopefully June is sunny, but no so hot I feel like I will melt outside.

I don't mind posting this today, because no matter how much you all make fun of me for reading fast, there is no way I am finishing a book before tomorrow. I am pooped (in honor of Holly from "The Outsider" or better yet poopy).

I only read 26 books this month. And as you can see, I didn't have a lot of five star reads, mostly they were 3 stars. I did have some books that I wish now I had just DNFed, but eh, too late now. I absolutely loved the one Agatha Christie and Rosamunde Pilcher books I read. I absolutely loathed that Agatha Christie biography. I am still mad at wasting my time on that thing. Here is my rundown of books!

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I read 35 books this month. I had a lot of five star reads and a lot more DNFs this month too. I just don't have the patience to force feed myself a book I am not enjoying these days. 

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DNF

My favorite book is going to be a tie between "Head On" and "Star-Touched Stories." My least favorite is going to have to be a tie again. That is between "Renegades" and "Rush."

So I managed to get through a lot of books this month. I read 38 books. I had a few duds, okay a lot of duds, but did have some really good 5 and 4 star reads. 

My favorite I think is going to go towards "Children of Blood and Bone." My least favorite is going to go to that Mary Alice Monroe book, "The High Tide Club."It is tied though with "Burn Bright" by Patricia Briggs. So there you go, I had two least favorite reads this month. 

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DNF

I managed to finish my 52 Weeks challenge for The (Mostly) Dead Writer's Society. And I managed to get some books towards the Horror Aficionados Public Domain Challenge. 

Well a few things. I hit my book goal for 2018, I read 50 books a few days ago, so cheers to that. Now I can ignore the reading challenge for the rest of the year and not feel like I am behind like I usually do. 

I managed to finish 23 books this month. For the most part I had some good reads (check out the 3 to 5 star books I read this month) though I had a couple of doozies. Looking at you Dean Koontz. 

I also managed to finish up a book that fit The (Mostly) Dead Writers Society 52 weeks challenge (that was "A Mother Like Mine"). 

On another note, it came up last night during a Twitter discussion that many authors of color out there want to see more reviewers of color review their books. See tweet thread here:

I have been better about trying to read more books by POC, but I am going to step it up even more. I found Justina Ireland and Dhonielle Clayton's comments about this to be really good discussion topics last night and of course I hard cringed at reviewers who were white who popped up crying reverse racism (please stop that people). What is good though is that I had a lot of people reach out to me last night and ask about how to follow me on Booklikes and Goodreads. So hopefully this means we get to see some new faces around Booklikes! 

I do have an account on NetGalley, but I am terrible about not using it. Char has pushed me to go there and I finally did after an author reached out to me last year about reviewing her book. For me I think that I like to either buy the book or borrow from the library so no one can try to claim that my review is biased. I am going to use NetGalley and even went in this morning (hey my password still works!) and requested some interesting looking books. 

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DNF

My favorite book for this month will be "The Gunslinger" and my least favorite that mess of a book, "The Silent Corner."

Happy reading folks!

Hmm, well hopefully Booklikes let's me get my book covers in this post. I was having issues sizing them down the other day.

So far this year, I read 33 books. I only decided to have 50 books for my challenge this year, so if I hit a slump (it happens) I can just ride it out without pushing myself to read.

I also have to say that Ann Rule's book covers are atrocious. Glad I got that off my chest. 

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I did read one book for the Horror Aficionados group read. So glad to be back with them.

And I also read one book for the (Mostly) Dead Writers Society 52 weeks challenge. 

My favorite book this month was "Faithful Place" my least favorite was "Not Ready for Mom Jeans."