June/July Reading Wrap up

   I seem to have missed doing a June reading wrap up. 

The beginning of July was fraught with a road trip, then came the corneal scarring issues and then boom, I had to have some surgery and thus I never did it. 

So, it's my blog.  Lets do a Combo June/July Wrap up.  Between the two months, I was so busy that I did not a significant drop off, I also had a serious number of DNF non-fiction books that just... were coma inducing.  I read a total of 28 books! 

Let's get into it! 

Statistics!

Books in Translation:  NONE.  This is ridiculous. I'm going to ahve to remedy that in August if I can. 

Books by Diverse Authors: 36% of my reads were by diverse authors. Not the best, but not the worst. I seem to be bumping that up for August, so far.  in June and July I did sink into a lot of predictable reads to sort of help with the stressors, but I still could have read more diversely. 

TOP Read for June/July?

In the end, I'm going with 

Aqueous by Jade Shyback for June 

Even though it is not the most polished read I had, I was captivated by the story and want to read for from the author, specifically the next installment of this series. 

For July? 

 Gotta be The Island of Last Things.  I loved this one, weird as it might have been!

So... in August lets see if I can move forward on some translated works and pump up my diverse reads. Alas some of the authors I believe to be somehow "diverse"  when investigated appear to be as cornbread as I am with very little indication of other "diverse" indicators. 

 But I will say, For August, I've only finished 2 books, both of them Bangers, so we'll see how it goes.  More reading escapades await!