June Reading Challenges Update

Here's Where I Stand on the I Love the Library Challenge

Books Checked Out and Read:

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
The Giver by Lois Lowry (BCD)
Palisades Park by Alan Brennert
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (BCD)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

Books Checked Out and Currently Reading

Divergent by Veronica Roth (BCD)

Books Checked Out and Not Read - Yet

Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne
And One Last Thing by Molly Harper
Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear
Beowulf - J.R.R. Tolkien (translator)
The Closer by Mariano Rivera
The Messenger by Lois Lowery (BCD)

Books Checked Out but Didn't Read

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Books Checked Out for School Assignments

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Shakespeare's Kitchen by Lore Segal
True Stories: guides for writing from your life by Rebecca Rule

Here's Where I Stand on the TBR Pile Challenge

I read one book from my book basket

Matchless by Gregory Maguire

I read one book from my Kindle App

Knowing the Score by Kat Latham

I read one book from my Nook

Just one of the Guys by Kristan Higgins

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Blind Date with a Book

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