June Recap

June Reading Progress

General Tracking

AtoZ  and  Alphabet Soup #AlphabetSoupChallenge  - June letters :  none
completed previously - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, O, P, R,S, T, U, W, Y

Alphabet Soup Author Edition #AlphabetSoupAuthorChallenge- June letters: G
completed previously A, B, C, D, E, F, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, V, W

Finishing the Series   #FinishingTheSeries2020  Tracked Here  completed 6/5 in total

• Series read in June:  
• Women's Murder Club- 20th Victim
• Stone Barrington- Hit List
• Murder She Wrote-  The Murder of Twelve 
• Cupcake Bakery-  Pumpkin Spice Peril
• Previously read: Abbie McCree;  Cackleberry Club; Food Blogger; Hannah Swensen; Hat Shop Mystery Series; Library Lover's Series;  Murder She Wrote;  New Orleans Scrapbooking Series;  Private; Stone Barrington; Teddy Fay; Under Suspicion;

Library Love  #LibraryLoveChallenge  Tracked Here  69/36 books read  (16 books in June/ 53 previously)

Literary Escapes  (Destination)  Visited in June: States: AZ, KS, ME  Countries: Canada, Russia

visited previously CA, CT, FL. HI, IL, LA, MA,  MI , MN, MO,MT, NC, NY, NV, OH, OR, TN, TX, VT, WA
plus Australia, China, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, USVI, Wales, Yugoslavia

Specific Criteria

PopSugar #popsugarreadingchallenge  completed in June # 31 (Medical Thriller), 42 (twenty in title)
completed previously # 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44,  46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Around the Year in 52 Books  completed in June - none
completed previously # 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51

52 Books in 52 Weeks completed in June #9 (set in space)
completed previously  #1, 2, 4,  6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,  34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 42, 43, 45,  46, 47, 48 , 52

BooklistQueen completed in June - none
completed previously #3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17,  20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 31, 32, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, 48, 49

20 in 20 #Read20in2020 completed in June #3 F (mostly white cover) 4NF (day/night in title),

completed previously #1F, 2 F/NF, #5 F/NF, 7 F/NF, 8 F/NF, 9F, 10F, 13F, 15F, 16F, 17F, 18F,

NJM Book Challenge  #NJMBookChallenge2020   completed in June None
completed previously #1, 2, 3,  4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,  24, 25

Wizarding World Tour

• Beauxbatons: 1 new prompts in June set in France
• 4/7 prompts completed previously
• Castelobruxo- 0 new prompts in June - 
• 6/7 prompts completed previously
• Durmstrang:   Completed Tour May 
• 7/7 prompts completed previously
• Hogwarts:  0 new prompts in June 
•  5/7 prompts completed previously
• Ilvermorny-  0 new prompts in June - 
• 6/7 prompts completed previously
• Koldovstoretz- 0 new prompts in June -  ; 
• 5/7 prompts completed previously
• Mahoutokoro-   1 new prompt in June - exquisite cover
• 3/7 prompts completed previously
• Uagadou-  0 new prompts in June - 
• 6/7 prompts completed previously

While I was Reading  in June- #8 non human narrator (All Systems Red)
completed previously- #1, 2, 4, 11, 12

What's in a Name 0 new prompts in June -
completed previously- An Antonym, Given/First Name; reference to children; one of 4 natural elements

Color Coded Challenge Completed in May


Monthly Motif #MonthlyMotifGXO  name or number

• READ: The 20th Victim by James Patterson 6/21/20
• blog post and Goodreads Review
• READ: The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger 6/28/20
• blog post and Goodreads Review

Monthly Keyword #MonthlyKeyWordGXO-    Keyword  And, Beach, Number, Wish, Down, Word

• Do not complete

Monthly Book Awards #GXOAwardReadingChallenge - Locus Award 2013

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells 6/30/20
• blog post and Goodreads Review

TBR Based Challenges

2020TBR #2020TBRReadingChallenge: completed in June- # 16 (Asia)
completed previously  # 1, 5, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16 (n america, australia, europe), 17,  20, 21


Beat the Backlist #BeatTheBacklist2020  completed 3  books in June ;  1 new bingo square: #6- wish it had a sequel

completed previously 18  bingo squares:  #1, 2, 4, 5,  8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

Back List Reader  #Backlistreader Tracked Here  37/24 read  (32 read previously)

Start on Your Shelfathon  #StartOnYourShelfathon Tracked Here  37/5  thru June 2020

Mount TBR  #MountTBR2020 Tracked Here  37/24 read  (32 read previously)

Genre Specific

Calendar of Crime  #CalendarOfCrime2020  Completed challenge in May
previously a prompt in 12 months-Jan, Feb Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul,  Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec

Cloak & Dagger  #CloakDaggerChal - Mysteries Tracked Here  54/25 total comp (41 prev)

Craving for Cozies  Tracked Here  25/26 total completed  (21 completed previously)

Cruisin thru Cozies  completed  #4 (paranormal),  3 freebie;   25/30  total completed (updated goal from 20);   (21 completed previously)
previously read culinary(2), animal(2), craft(2), outside US (1), career (2), holiday(1), travel(1) and 9 freebie

Historical Fiction  #2020HFReadingChallenge  Tracked Here  4/5  (2 completed previously)

Memoir  total completed 6/5  Read   # 14(written by someone under 40)
previously read memoir for the Food memoir category; Mental Health/Illness, person who identifies as LGBTQIA, humorous,  Lab Girl fits multiple prompts using for under 300 pages

Creative Tracking Challenges

Medical Examiner Challenge-  Total 120 Toe Tags in  46 Books

• 31 new toe tags in June for 9 books 

Murder Mysteries Bingo-

•  8 new squares:  
• 3 on weapons;  
• 1 on crime scenes;  
• 3 on Clues and Cliches,  
•  1 on Red Herrings

• previously 78  squares had been marked
• 21 on weapons
• 24 on crime scenes;  
• 15 on Clues and Cliches,  
• 18 on Red Herrings

• 2 New Bingos-  
• Weapons:  Row 4 
• Crime Scenes: Row 2
• Clues and Cliches:  none
• Red Herrings: none

• 8 Bingos previously:  
• Weapons:  Row 1,  2, and 5 ;
• Crime Scenes: Row 1, 3, 4, 5
• Clues and Cliches- row 2
• Red Herrings- none

Six Shooter Challenge  -

• new author targets for:
•  Sally Goldenbaum
• Nancy CoCo

• added shots to:
• 1 Jessica Fletcher (total of 2);  
• 1 for Jenn McKinlay (total of 4)
• 1 for Stuart Woods (total of 5)
• 1 for James Patterson (total of 4)

Cumulative target shots:

• 1 shot each on:  Debra Sennefelder; Sherry Harris;  Amanda Flower; Joann Cambell Slan; Lucy Burdette;  Agatha Christie;  Sara Paretsky; Leslie Budewitz;  Sheila Connolly; CA Phipps; Sally Goldenbaum;  Nancy CoCo
• 2 shots each on: Laura Childs ; Jessica Fletcher; Mary Higgins Clark;
• 4 shots on Jenn McKinlay; James Patterson
• 5 shots on Stuart Woods; VM Burns