Monthly Wrap-Up — June 2025

Books Read – June 2025

Books

1. Grown Wise (Celia Lake) – reread (yes, I know I read it in May, too)
2. Love’s a Witch (Tricia O’Malley) – ARC
3. The Hare and the Oak (Celia Lake) – reread
4. Ancient Trust (Celia Lake) – novella; reread
5. Best Foot Forward (Celia Lake) – reread
6. Nocturnal Quarry (Celia Lake) – novella; reread
7. Old as the Hills (Celia Lake) – reread
8. Upon a Summer’s Day (Celia Lake) – reread
9. The Changing Door (Celia Lake) – novella-length extra; reread
10. Illusion of a Boar (Celia Lake) – reread
11. Three Graces (Celia Lake) – novella; reread
12. As the Ground Shifts (Celia Lake) – novella-length extra; reread
13. The Magic of Four (Celia Lake) – reread
14. Bound for Perdition (Celia Lake) – reread
15. In the Cards (Celia Lake) – reread
16. Point by Point (Celia Lake) – reread
17. Facets of the Bench (Celia Lake) – reread
18. Fool’s Gold (Celia Lake) – reread
19. Wards of the Roses (Celia Lake) – reread
20. A Tarnished Canvas (Anna Lee Huber) – ARC

Audiobooks

• One Fell Sweep (Ilona Andrews; Graphic Audio ed.) – Hoopla audio

Summary: June was a challenging month for me. I was working flat out the first few days of the month, followed by a week of a family wedding and reunion (fun but exhausting), followed by getting sick within days of arriving home. I was sick for a week, and hadn’t really bounced back by the end of the month; I am still pretty tired. Between everything I had going on, I didn’t have the energy for new-to-me books, so I ended up binge-rereading Celia Lake’s Albion books through the entire month (I actually started that reread back in May.) Being sick gave me a lot of time for reading, and because it was all rereading, I flew through the books pretty quickly. (Also, some were novellas or novella-length collections of extra scenes.) That let me catch up a bit from the first two weeks of the month, when I didn’t read much at all. I did manage to read one ARC at the beginning of June, and another at the end.

I completed a total of 21 books in June, including 2 ARCs, 3 first-time reads, and 18 rereads. I reviewed X of the books I read this month. Unfortunately, I didn’t write or post a single review.

Challenges

Here’s the breakdown of my reading challenges this year so far:

• Goodreads Challenge: 87/140. I am 18 books ahead of schedule!
• Audiobook challenge: Listened to 13/12; reviewed 3/12
• COYER Out to Lunch challenge: Read 75/25; reviewed 15/25
• Ilona Andrews series read-along: Read 4; reviewed 1 so far. (I decided to skip the rest of the Edge books for now, and started on the Innkeeper Chronicles in May; I’m caught up on reading those, but need to write the reviews.)
• Library Love Challenge: Read 12/12; reviewed 4/12
• NetGalley & Edelweiss Challenge: Read 12/25; reviewed 6/25 (Reviews includes 2 books read prior to 2025, so I still have 6 ARCs from January through May plus the 2 from June to review.)
• Robin’s Recs: Read 2/6; reviewed 0/6. (I’m 3/4 of the way through one audiobook and halfway through another, so hopefully I can catch up soon.)

Click here to see a detailed list of my challenge reading.

Other Goals and Resolutions

Writing: Days I wrote: 0 . Number of words written: 0. Sigh.

Prioritizing reading and writing time over screen time: Yeah, I did really, really badly on this one.

Review more of the books I read: Total fail.

Unpack and reorganize my book collection: I didn’t get any of this done, because of being out of town half the month, sick for a week, and exhausted since then.

Catalog my books: See above.

Click here for the full list of my 2025 goals and resolutions, excluding challenges.

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