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Hello. Summer is here! For me that means more time to read. What are your plans?

My plans for this month are:

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (1935), 302 pages
The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle (1905) 256 pages
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811) 409 pages
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848), 576 pages
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart (1997) 264 pages

We'll see how many I can finish this month. I read about 50% of Jamaica Inn during the month of May, so I do have a head start on that one.

LOL my authors are very much alike! Mary Stewart, Anne Bronte, and Daphne du Maurier all have a similar feel to their writings.

I going to TRY to work in these classics this month:


A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway

I am going to continue reading the big classics that I started in May 2024.
1. Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Victor Hugo
2. Don Quixote (By: Edith Grossman) published: December, 2003 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Les Miserables will easily take another 2 to 3 months to complete while I am going to take a break after completing Part 1 of Quixote. So maybe I will be able to read one other book once Part 1 of Quixote is completed.

This could be a busy month.

Currently reading:
�� Momento Mori by Muriel Spark
�� The Dark Horse by Rumer Godden

Bingo:
�� South Moon Under by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (also currently reading)
�� The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets (also currently reading)

Buddy Read:
�� Rabbit is Rich

Southern Literary Trail:
�� Beach Music by Pat Conroy

Book Club:
�� The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

There are others I would like to fit in, but probably won’t get to this month since I usually average 5 a month and Beach Music is a chunkster.

RJ's JUNE READS

Will Finish This Month
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B edited by Ben Bova
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Man Who Tried to Get Away by Stephen R. Donaldson writing as Reed Stephens
Night Shift by Stephen King

Might Finish This Month
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Will Be Reading But Won't Finish This Month
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré (re-read)
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Dubliners by James Joyce
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Delirium's Mistress by Tanith Lee
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume III: The Nebula Winners edited by Arthur C. Clarke
Asimov's Chronology of the World: The History of the World From the Big Bang to Modern Times by Isaac Asimov

June goals
I'm heading into the home stretch of my challenges. I've finished 10 and have about 20 books left. Let's see how many I'll finish this month!

Challenge books to read/finish in June
✔️Anonymous, tr. Merwin: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1397)
✔️�Ѳ����ǰ���: Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (1485)
✔️�ҴDz��DZ�: The Overcoat (1842)
✔️�ѱ������������: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)
✔️�´ǻ���dzܲ���: Over Seventy (1956)
✔️��������������: Crash (1973)
✔️��Dz����Բ��Dz�: The Blind Geometer (1986)

Non-challenge books to read/finish in June
✔️��������: Metamorphoses (8)
✔️���󲹰�����𲹰���: The Tempest (1611)
✔️�մDZ��쾱���: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
✔️�ʰ����ٳ����ٳ�: Making Money (2007)
✔️�Ѿ�é����������: Kraken (2010)
✔️�ʴDz��ٳ�ܳ���: What I'd Rather Not Think About (2020)
✔️��é�������: I, Antigone (2021)
✔️������������: Legends & Lattes (2022)
✔️�������ٳ�: The Fraud (2023)
✔️���������: Martyr! (2024)
✔️���ܳ�������: Tell (2024)

Long reads
Jordan: The Eye of the World (1990)

Added mid month
✔️�������Բ���: There There (2018)

Maybe...
Melville: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories (1853) - non-challenge

Challenge completions this month
Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge - 5/13/24
Challenge #3c - Millennium Challenge - 6/26/24
Challenge #9 �� Fiction/Non-Fiction - 6/26/24

June reading plan...


The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (re-read)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (re-read)
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (re-read)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (re-read)
Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

So far, I plan to read these in June, and I am sure I will be adding more books to this list! Even though I won't read them all. :)

I will finish rereading from May: Matthew - The Book of Matthew (The Holy Bible #40) NIVUK for myself.

1 Samuel (Bible #9), ESV for New Life Bible Study

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, not a reread, for my in-life book club.

June's book list: Rereads: Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim for myself.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for A Little Tree Hollow group and Miranda Mills's YouTube channel

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen for Catching Up On Classics Revisit the Shelf

Not rereads: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck for Catching Up On Classics

The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter, Frank Wynne for Read Women

Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta by Charles Dickens for Dickensians! (I will be listening to this on Librivox).

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides for A Little Tree Hollow

It always warms my heart to see all this great reading going on! Here's my hopes:

Group and Buddy Reads
The Dark Horse, Rumer Godden
The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (re-read)
Is She His Wife? Or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta, Charles Dickens
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor

Everything Else
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (re-read)
At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop
Less Is Lost, Andrew Sean Greer
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, George Saunders

my June "Core 6":

Bleak House Dickens, Charles 1853 - re-read, to half-way
Petersburg Bely, Andrei 1913
Lost Steps, The Carpentier, Alejo 1956
Les Enfants Terribles Cocteau, Jean 1929
Downriver Sinclair, Iain 1991
Emigrants, The Sebald, W. G. 1992