Wrap up June 2024

I had an amazing reading month a mix of rereading favorites and discovering new ones.

Videos:

Booktuber mentioned: @benreadsgood

Books and time stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:45 The Heaven Official's Blessing series by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
2:27 The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
4:42 The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
6:32 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
8:14 The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
10:22 Constance Verity Destroys the World by A. Lee Martinez
11:53 Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
14:12 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
15:26 Someday Is Today by Matthew Dicks
18:01 Outro

[Boxer]

Isn't it amazing how simply reading a book can be such an escape from life's stresses.
Really enjoyed your Wrap Up👍🏼
You're always thorough, always informative, and always entertaining😊

[RovingReader]

I need to read The Murder Bot... everyone raves about that series!

I hate books that talk down to you! There are lots of different ways to live a life.

I've been so busy this summer with travel and an anxiety about the fall that I think was lurking below the surface. Now that things have changed (per our instagram message) I feel so much more freedom to live summer up and have been reading regularly again! Whew!

[theredheadisreading]

The last Shakespeare I tried to read was Hamlet. I had read it before in school, but I was rereading it and I couldn’t get into it. I do want to try again someday. I kind of feel like Shakespeare is more designed to be watched than read TBH. I’ve had All Systems Redon my TBR for ages—I really want to get to it someday.

[jakebosc]

Something that helped me get through Macbeth or any Shakespeare really, was reading the book and listening to the audiobook simultaneously. You can find a few good quality dramatised audiobooks here on YouTube for free. It was a game changer for me and made me appreciate Shakespeare more because quite frankly he can be quite difficult to understand at times!