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Our reads in June 2026
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dustydigger
Posted 2026-05-31 2:57 PM (#35266)
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Location: UK		Another month,another tottering TBR pile. Whats your reading plans for June?
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lisagarrity
Posted 2026-05-31 5:53 PM (#35267 - in reply to #35266)
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Location: California		I have given up making monthly TBRs. I never keep up with them. I might read one or two of my planned books and then something shiny drags my attention away. I hope to read the Invisible Man, Ann Leckie's new book, Radiant Star and the Buffalo Hunter Hunter. we'll see what I really read.
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daxxh
Posted 2026-05-31 10:52 PM (#35268 - in reply to #35267)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		@dusty Yikes! Glad to hear you are doing better after your fall!
@lisagarrity - I am the same way. I might read a couple of books on my list and then get distracted by a new book or a library hold. I did better than usual in May. I read three on the list and started a fourth. Then got Radiant Star and had to read that.

I really liked The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I don't usually like vampire books, but I really enjoyed this book. I love the history of the West (Western US) and this book was full of it. This vampire wasn't a typical vampire. I highly recommend this book.

June TBR

The Bird is Gone - Stephen Graham Jones (started)
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini (started - ebook for lunchtime reading)
Halcyon Years - Alastair Reynolds
The Last Policeman - Ben H. Winters
Vector for Seven - Josephine Saxton

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dustydigger
Posted 2026-06-01 2:07 AM (#35269 - in reply to #35266)
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Location: UK		Dusty's TBR for June 2026

Emily Tesh - Some Desperate Glory
Aldis Budrys - Rogue Moon
Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X
Rick Riordan - The Titan's Curse
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dustydigger
Posted 2026-06-01 2:16 AM (#35270 - in reply to #35266)
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Location: UK		If if you dont have a TBR you can still post what books you have read..Must admit I dont keep to my list very often. One problem on this site is that once you make a post you cant change it next day or next week when new books arrive from the library or you dont feel in the mood for a book. Over in LibraryThing where my main reading and reviewing is done,any post can be re- opened and editedat any time. Its always been a frustration here that we cant do that. Which is why the final books mentioned hereat the end of the month is usually wildly different from the start list! lol.
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daxxh
Posted 2026-06-29 8:44 PM (#35326 - in reply to #35270)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		What I actually read in June

The Delivery - Greg Hurwitz. Robot makes your desires come true, even if you don't really know what you desire. This was free for Amazon Prime members. I liked it.

Volatile Memory - Seth Haddon . Meh. It was ok. Not sure if I will read the sequel.

Venus Plus X - Theodore Sturgeon. Liked this one.

Platform Decay - Martha Wells. I always enjoy Murderbot. Not my favorite, but a good read.

Tuck - Stephen Lawhead. I enjoyed this Welsh take on Robin Hood.

I read nothing on my list for June. The Bird Is Gone and To Sleep in the Sea of Stars had to go back to the library. I will have to check them out again to finish them. I read a lot of nonfiction this month. My favorite book for this month was Raising Hare - Chloe Dalton. I learned a lot about hares. Fascinating. I didn't realize how different they are from rabbits.
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dustydigger
Posted 2026-07-01 1:47 AM (#35327 - in reply to #35266)
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Location: UK		I have had a busy month this month what with world cup' wall to wall football 3 matches a day .Then the terrible heat wave In my area we think 22C is a good summer day so getting up to 35C is unbelievable. My old brain got through only a handful of books and what little free alone time I could salvage I reread old crime fiction that needed no mental imput.
Emily Tesh - Some Desperate Glory. Apparently it is NOT classed as YA,possibly for some violent scenes and adult themes,but I couldnt bear it if I tried to see it as adult,because everything was done so heavyhandedly,and the characters were cardboard,totally without nuance.Tesh did such a good job showing what a cold hard fanatic the protagonist was,and depicted familiar dystopian settings that I disliked her from the start,and when the tale pivoted halfway through to different timelines etc I just couldnt credit changes in her. The final section,breathless adventure unfortunately seemed stretched out too much and I didnt care anyway! lol.Maybe some good ideas,but IMO
the writing wasnt good enough.Not Hugo level in ideas or writing skills IMO
I am English but apart from maybe twice recognising a british idiom I found the style sort of without any quirks or interest,more like AI driven stuff,which was weird!.After all this is a cambridge educated woman,a latin and greek and classics teacher so this wooden style is odd.She has several fantasy awards credits,perhaps she does better on the fantasy side? Not interested enough to find out.
Debut novel winner of the Hugo. Go figure.
Anyhoo,once again I am up to date with all 74 Hugo winning novels

Algis Budrys Rogue Moon. A reread of a book getting creaky with age but still interesting. A Big Dumb Object genre read. A strange extremely lethal structure is found on the moon which needs to be mapped out . The slighest mistake kills any explorer so a matter transmitter transfers the explorers clone to themoon. Inch by inch they proceed but unfortunately ethe human on earth gets to experience their own death and they are driven mad.A solution is found eventually. The actual exploration bits are probaly only 10% of the book,it is much more an exploration of courage and identitywith lots of philosophical musings and numerousedgy somewhat stagey conversations between rather unlikeable characters,so anyone expectig a riproaring adventure will be disappointed.but I enjoyed it. Think that was my third read..

Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse. Another of Riordan's fun YA series bringing ancient greek mythology bang up to date. Just pure frothy fun which I could pick up and read a couple of dozen pages as and when I was free.

And thats it! I did make attempts at Ted Sturgeon's Venus Plus X but decided to put it aside. 10 minute sessions are very unsatisfactory so I have put it asidetil football and Wimbledon are done! lol.
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