June Book Recap!

June was not my best showing. In fact I only read 1 1/2 books this month. Part of this is surprising since I traveled this month and normally when I fly I can get quite a bit of reading done. Instead these flights consisted more of dozing or listening to podcasts. Then the two weeks I was gone were full of activity which meant no time for reading, and a week after I returned I moved to a new place. Oh June has certainly has it's distractions from books!

The one full book I read was entitled Black and Blue  by Anna Quindlen and was very good! I was looking for a light easy read and ended up picking a book about a woman who builds up the courage to leave her husband and father of her son after 20 years of physical abuse. Not exactly light hearted, but it was so well written and flowed remarkably well, it was a pretty fast read! I really liked that it showed that developing the courage to leave is just the first step. After that comes the anxiety and paranoia that constantly exists; paranoia that you will slip up and someone will find out who you are and word will get back to him. I would definitely recommend this book!!

I started a book entitled The Peppered Moth, but only managed to make it halfway through. So far it hasn't fully captured me like Black and Blue, but we will see how the second half goes in July! 

Books Read in 2014:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Fault in Our Stars  by John Green
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Grief Observed by CS Lewis
The Monument Men by Robert Edsel
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Beer
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass Isak Dinesen
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Looking for Alaska by John Green
When Life Comes Undone by TJ Addington
Number the Stars by Lois Lowery
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Where There's Smoke by Jodi Picoult
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster  

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen