What I Read This Month - June & July 2023

My favorite form of self care as a teacher and as a mom is reading. I love reading for fun but I also love reading to learn new things. Apparently I forgot to share my June & July book lists to here they are, as well as my five-star reads from each month, in no particular order:

Top June Books:

1. How Do I Un-Remember This?
2. Stories From The Tenants Downstairs
3. Fourth Wing

Top July Books:

1. Yellowface
2. The Better Half
3. Banyon Moon

In July, I also surpassed my Goodreads 2023 Reading Challenge goal of 52 books, which I am pretty proud of. I've done this challenge every year since 2015 and I hope to match (or surpass) last year's total of 100 books, but we will see. 

As I was walking around doing errands yesterday (and probably listening to the Bad on Paper Podcast (which I highly recommend if you are a reader) I was thinking about what is it that I like about reading so much and here are a few of the things that I came up with:

• I love all the lives & places that I get to explore and be a part of in books
• My over-stimulated mom brain loves the sense of peace and quite I get when I read
• I love having a small goal to read one chapter (or even one percent) and meeting that small goal every day
• It's relaxing & fun to me
• It gives my introvert-self something to naturally talk about since I am always reading something new

So far I have finished two books this month and neither have wow-ed me, but I am really liking my current read and am pretty sure that it will be my first five-star book of August. Happy reading!