{"id":39,"date":"2019-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/2019\/06\/12\/june-reading-update\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T19:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:05:31","slug":"june-reading-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/2019\/06\/12\/june-reading-update\/","title":{"rendered":"June Reading Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy June! I have been doing really well on my reading this year. In fact, I have surpassed my 2018 TOTAL already and it is only June! My goal for 2019 was 24 books read and I am keeping pace &#8211; currently at 11 read &#8211; at just 1 book behind. The book I am reading now is almost done which will get me to 12 books completed by the end of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime &#8211; I wanted to update my list of read books to see if it is aligning at all with the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge. I love doing this challenge each year, even though I rarely complete it. It is fun to read books in genres that I never would have considered otherwise and it has actually brought me back into the Adult Fiction fold. Prior to doing this challenge the only fiction I enjoyed reading was in the Young Adult category, but I&#8217;m opening  back up to the New Adult and Adult Fiction categories as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; without further ado &#8211; here are the updates for mid-2019&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Books I have completed so far, with ratings and challenge #:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Four Tendenices: The Indispensible Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better<\/strong> by Gretchen Rubin <ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Women &amp; Power: A Manifesto<\/strong> by Mary Beard<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge =  n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>An Absolutely Remarkable Thing<\/strong> by Hank Green<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong> by Angie Thomas<ul><li>Rating = *****<\/li><li>Challenge = <strong><em>3. A book  by a woman and\/or AOC that won a literary award in 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Moxie<\/strong> by Jennifer Mathieu<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone<\/strong> by Olivia Laing<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution<\/strong> by Sara Marcus<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Turtles All the Way Down<\/strong> by John Green<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = <strong><em>13. A book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution<\/strong> by Amber Tamblyn<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>The Latte Factor: Why You Don&#8217;t Have to Be Rich to Live Rich<\/strong> by David Bach<ul><li>Rating = ***<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Paper Girls, Vol. 1<\/strong> by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matthew Wilson<ul><li>Rating = ****<\/li><li>Challenge = n\/a<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>And in case you are not familiar with the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, here is my <a href=\"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/2019\/01\/23\/read-harder-challenge-2019\/\">initial post<\/a> (this year) on it, which includes the list and here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/2018\/12\/12\/2019-read-harder-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"official post (opens in a new tab)\">official post<\/a> on the Book Riot site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy June! I have been doing really well on my reading this year. In fact, I have surpassed my 2018 TOTAL already and it is only June! My goal for 2019 was 24 books read and I am keeping pace &#8211; currently at 11 read &#8211; at just 1 book behind. The book I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3,7],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-reading","tag-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrl.com\/reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}