June 2017 Wrap-up

June's TBR Pile (8/12):

1. MVPA Book Club Selection: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah √
2. Series Pick: Dorothy Must Die Stories Vol. 2 by Danielle Paige √
3. Nonfiction Pick: ???
4. Read Your Book Shelf Pick: Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel
5. Discworld Pick: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
6. Romance Pick: Secrets of the Heart by Candace Camp √
7. Carry over: The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming
8. Short Stories: Dorothy Must Die Stories Vol. 3 by Danielle Paige √
9. Added: Roman Holiday by Jodi Taylor √
10. Added: Wonder Woman The True Amazon by Jill Thompson √
11. Added: Zombies A Brief History of Decay by Olivier Peru √
12. Added: A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor √

Picture Book Roundup:

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 2034 pages
Pages Remaining: 719,017 pages

Current Read - The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books bought/received (0)

July's TBR Pile:

1. MVPA Book Club Selection: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
2. Series Pick: The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige
3. Nonfiction Pick: 50 Great American Places
4. Read Your Book Shelf Pick: The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Fleming
5. Discworld Pick: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
6. Romance Pick: ????
7. Carry over: Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

Movies watched

• The Man in the White Suit -- 1951 thriller starring Alec Guiness
• Destination Moon -- One of the Top 100 SciFi movies. I wanted a space movie and picked this one to watch. Robert Heinlein was a consultant on the film. Fairly realistic space movie for the 1950s.
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon -- Been years since I watched this. Definitely one of the better monster movies even with all the cheese.
• John Wick 2 -- Definitely not the level of the first one, but I still really enjoyed it.
• Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels -- Introduced this one to the twins. They loved it.
• Seven Samurai -- Introduced this masterpiece to the twins. They were bored initially, but really got into the second half.
• The Birds -- Introduced the twins to Hitchcock, starting with my favorite!
• Snatch -- Finished out the "sequel" to Lock, Stock. The boys enjoyed it more than Lock Stock.

TV Shows watched

• Supernatural S1 -- J and I are slowly plugging away at this one.
• Last Week Tonight
• The Bachelorette -- Finally on track wth watching and listening to my podcast (Here to Make Friends). I'm in agreement with the podcast ladies that the last four will be Peter, Dean, Bryan, and Eric. I'm pulling for Peter but I have a feeling that Bryan wins.
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell -- Started this mini series while J was gone one night. Read the book a few months back and have been meaning to watch. Episode 1 was really good.

Comments - Decent reading and media viewing this month. I didn't read quite as many pages as i would have liked, but I did knock off some good books from my TBR pile. And I finished my book club book with almost a week to spare!

Next up on the TBR pile: