Melody’s June 2014 Wrap Up

Book Reviews
Note: This month, I made a pledge to make half of my book reviews moving forward diverse books and/or books written by diverse authors. From this point forward, these diverse book reviews in my monthly wrap ups will have three asterisks (*) at the beginning of the title instead of one.

*** The One by Kiera Cass
* The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings
*** Adaptation by Malinda Lo
* Now and Forever by Susane Colasanti
*** Six Earlier Days by David Levithan
* Threats of Sky and Sea by Jennifer Ellision
*** In the After by Demitria Lunetta
* The Best Things in Death by Lenore Appelhans
*** Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler
* I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff

Book/E-book Haul
* The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings
* Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland
* Rush by Eve Silver
* Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
* The One by Kiera Cass
* The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
* The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
* Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
* Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Blu-ray, DVD, & TV Reviews
* DVD: Graceland The Complete First Season
* DVD: Resurrection The Complete First Season
* TV: Playing House “Pilot” and “Bird Bones” (USA Network)
* DVD: Bob’s Burgers The Complete Third Season

June Notes
* YA Interrobang, The League of Extraordinary Writers, and Geek Girls Run featured YA Runs A 5K which is so awesome! Thanks so much!

My Insane Book & Movie Challenge Update #6
My monthly update for my Insane Book & Movie Challenge is below!

Books
Note: If you’d like to keep track of my reading progress as it happens and reviews as they are posted, feel free to follow me on Goodreads!

Goodreads List Shuffle:
* Deleted duplicate book on standalone list.
* Deleted duplicate book on trilogies-duo list.
* Moved 4 books from 2014 list to 2015 list.

Books I Read That Are In My Bookcase
1. The Zero Degree Zombie Zone by Patrik Henry Bass, Illustrations by Jerry Craft
2. 365 Style by Nicky Hilton
3. Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill
4. Now and Forever by Susane Colasanti
5. The One by Kiera Cass
6. Threats of Sky and Sea by Jennifer Ellision

Physical Library Books I Read
1. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3 Adapted by Daniel Abraham, Illustrated by Tommy Patterson
2. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodríguez
3. Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler

Library E-books I Read
Read in Browser
1. Six Earlier Days by David Levithan

E-books I Read
Read through iBooks App on iPad
1. Erased by Jennifer Rush
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Read through Kindle App on iPad
1. The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings
2. Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
3. I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff
4. Adaptation by Malinda Lo
5. In the After by Demitria Lunetta

My favorite read of the month was… In the After by Demitria Lunetta.

Movies & Documentaries
Note: There was not a ton of movie watching this month as season two of Orange is the New Black released on Netflix and that’s what I spent most of my time watching!

Watched in June 2014
Elysium (Netflix DVD)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Documentary) (Netflix Streaming)
Talhotblond (Documentary) (Netflix Streaming)
Shenandoah (Documentary) (Netflix Streaming)
The Woman Who Wasn’t There (Documentary) (Netflix Streaming)
From One Second to the Next (Documentary) (Netflix Streaming)
Hot Coffee (Documentary) (Netflix Streaming)

My favorite movie/documentary this month was Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
My least favorite movie/documentary this month was Shenandoah.

Until next month, happy reading and viewing!

4 comments

  1. Kiera Cass is half Puerto Rican and half of my book reviews moving forward are diverse books AND/OR books written by diverse authors so since she's a diverse author, she's included in the list. 🙂