June 2010 in Review: 06/30/10
In June I read four review books and posted five ARC reviews. I read as many books as I reviewed, coming in at slightly more than one a day.
I had a lot of disappointing books to review, brining my average down to 3.2 out of 5 with the mode being 2. My reviews focused mostly on children's books: picture books and tween fiction making up 49% of all my reviews. I also reviewed a lot of science fiction and fantasy.
Although it's not a #ROOB month, I calculated my score for my reading. As I read through a ton of library books, my score held steady at -2.7.
Books Reviewed in June
Five stars
- A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers
- Farewell Atlantis by Terry Bisson
- How to Host a Killer Party by Penny Warner
- The Kayla Chroincles by Sherri Winston
- Owly Volume 1: The Way Home and The Bittersweet Summer by Andy Runton
- Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown and Leo Dillon
- The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
- Veracity by Laura Bynum
Four stars
- The Essential Basho by Basho and translated by Sam Hamill
- Excuse Me... Are You a Witch? by Emily Horn
- Grampa's Zombie BBQ by Kirk Scraggs
- The Man Who Did Something About It by Harvey Jacobs
- The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
- The Thanksgiving Door by Debby Atwell
Three stars
- A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
- The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
- The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
- Little Quack's Hide and Seek by Lauren Thompson
- Spot Visits His Grandparents by Eric Hill
- The Texicans by Nina Vida
- Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House #23) by Mary Pope Osborne
Two stars
- All Aboard the Dinotrain by Deb Lund
- Are You Afraid Yet? by Stephen James O'Meara
- Bailey's Day by Robert Haggerty
- Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
- Dead End by Helen R. Myers
- Dreamstone by D. A. Hendrickson
- The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
- Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles de Lint
- Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
- Revolutionary War on Wednesday (Magic Tree House #22) by Mary Pope Osborne
- The Soul of the Rhino by Hemanta Mishra
One star
- Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Books and Stories Read in June 2010 (reviews coming)
- Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
- Alida's Song by Gary Paulsen
- Bone, Volume 6: Old Man's Cave by Jeff Smith
- Bone, Volume 7: Ghost Circles by Jeff Smith
- The Cats of Roxville Station by Jean Craighead George
- Catwings (Catwings, #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Circus by Lois Ehlert
- The Dyodyne Experiment by James Doulgeris
- "Epidapheles and the Insufficiently Affectionate Ocelot" by Ramsey Shehadeh FSF Mar/Apr 2010
- For Biddle's Sake by Gail Carson Levine
- Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo
- How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
- In Mike We Trust by P.E. Ryan
- Jane On Her Own (Catwings, #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
- Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters
- The Little Band by James Sage
- Many Bloody Returns edited by Charlaine Harris
- My Guy (Laura Geringer Books by Sarah Weeks
- Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements by John Emsley
- One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers by Andrew Hodges
- Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace
- Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink by Victoria Kann
- Pure by Terra Elan McVoy
- Science Fiction And Alternate History by David Scholes
- A Short History of Rudeness by Mark Caldwell
- Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel by Ann Hood
- Storm Cats by Malachy Doyle
- Tirissa and the Necklace of Nulidor by Willow
- A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Treasure Hunters by Jeff Smith
- "Waiting for the Phone to Ring" by Richard Bowes (Mar / Apr 2010)
- When Pigasso Met Mootisse by Nina Laden
- When Teachers Talk: Principal Abuse of Teachers by Rosalyn Susanne Schnall
- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
- Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (Catwings, #3) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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