June 2022 in Retrospect: What I Read/Listened to/Wrote About

I didn’t expect June to be as productive as this—especially because a few books in the middle took a day or so longer than I’d estimated. That doesn’t happen that often, but I’ll take it. The short version: 26 books, 7,251+ pages (or the equivalent)–with one audio-only novella that I don’t have a page count on; 3.7 Average Stars—with one I’m still not sure how to rank—I had a bunch of 4-Stars this month that helped to make up for the 1-Star that I’m still rankled about (I’m also rankled about the gag order from the Book Tour group I’m no longer working with).

I have one abandoned and two still-in-draft-mode non-review posts I’d hoped to get up, but in general, my output was pretty good.

All in all, it was a pretty decent month. Let’s take a deep dive into what happened here in June:
Books/Novels/Novellas Read/Listened to

I Just Don’t Know

Still Reading

Ratings

	2		0
	3		0
	10		0
	2		1
	7
		Average =	3.7

TBR Stacks/Piles/Heaps

Breakdowns:
“Traditionally” Published: 12
Self-/Independent Published: 14

Review-ish Things Posted

• Black Nerd Problems (Audiobook) by William Evans & Omar Holmon: Essays on Life, Race, and Nerddom
• A Snake in the Raspberry Patch by Joanne Jackson: A Family and a Small Town in Upheaval In the Shadow of a Brutal Crime
• In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin: The Past and Present Collide for Rebus, Clarke, and Fox
• What Is Christianity? by Herman Bavinck, Gregory Parker Jr. (Translator): Short, Sweet, To the Point
• Dirt Road Home by Alexander Nader: From the Motor City to Small Town Tennessee
• Attachments (Audiobook) by Rainbow Rowell, Rebecca Lowman: I Stumble All Over the Place Trying to Talk About This
• Noodle and the No Bones Day by Jonathan Graziano, Dan Tavis (Illustrator): A Great Dose of Adorableness to Pick Up Your Day
• Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman: She Gets by with a Little Help from Her Friends
• In Divine Company by Pierce Taylor Hibbs: Communication Failure?
• Crazy in Poughkeepsie by Daniel Pinkwater: “Crazy” Might Be An Overstatement, How About “Ridiculously Odd”?
• Payback by RC Bridgestock: A Decent Start for this Procedural Series
• Magic Kingdom for Sale–Sold! (Audiobook) by Terry Brooks, Jeremy Arthur (Narrator): A Nostalgic Trip I Maybe Shouldn’t Have Taken
• Against All Odds by Jeffery H. Haskell: It’s the Chance He’s Gotta Take
• The Lost by Jeffrey B. Burton: Mace and Vira Race the Clock to Find a Kidnapped Girl
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Audiobook) by Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter (Narrator): Big Laughs and Big Ideas Litter this SF Adventure
• Love and Other Monsters in the Dark by K. B. Jensen: A Truly Impressive Batch of Short Fiction
• Holy Chow by David Rosenfelt: Keeping the “Semi” in Andy’s Semi-Retired Status
• An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin by Yudha Thianto: Calvin 101
• A Wash of Black by Chris McDonald: This is How a Series Should Start
• Movieland by Lee Goldberg: It’s No Walk in the Park for Eve Ronin

Other Things I Wrote
Other than the Saturday Miscellanies (4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th), I also wrote:

• Highlights from May: Lines Worth Repeating
• Book Blogger Hop: My Methodology (no, really, I have one)
• Spelling the Month in Books: June
• The Readers Problem Book Tag
• Blogroll Update
• Book Blogger Hop: Fiction or Non-Fiction?
• Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 books of 2022… so far
• WWW Wednesday for June 1, June 8, June 15, June 21, and June 29, 2022,
• The Friday 56 for 6/3/22 (Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman), 6/10/22 (Payback by R.C. Bridgestock), 6/17/22 (Against All Odds by Jeffrey H. Haskell), and 6/24/22 (Movieland by Lee Goldberg).

Enough about me—how Was Your Month?