I read 6 books in June. My favorite read was The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’m quite a bit behind in Moby-Dick, but I am confident that I will finish it by the end of July. Below is the complete list of books I read in June:
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (read for Modern Detour but not yet reviewed)- 🙂 🙂 🙂
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett – 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw – 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg – 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
So, what will I be reading in July? I posted last week that my summer will be adventure-themed. Therefore, there will be some books from that list on my July TBR.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (to finish for the read-along hosted by Adam @ Roof Beam Reader)
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling)
Cinq Semaines En Ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon) by Jules Verne
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (to finish for the read-along hosted by Robert @ 101 Books)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (for a July read-along hosted by Hamlette @ The Edge of the Precipice)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
I am glad your June reading went so well! I only managed to finish one book. Although I’m in the middle of a couple.
Frankenstein is a great one! That is a book certainly well-worth the re-read.
Good month! Happy July reading!
I’ve heard great things said about The Old Man and the Sea.It is one book I’m looking forward to read,so I can’t wait to see what you will think of it!
Five Weeks in a Balloon seems intriguing,although Jules Verne has never enticed me.I guess I must give him a chance one day!
Jules Verne wrote over 60 novels. Five Weeks in a Balloon is only the first.
I’ve also read Around the World in 80 Days in the past. It is noteworthy that there is no hot air balloon in that novel. I say this because the film version has Phileas Fogg traveling around in a balloon with his servant Passepartout (they make him Spanish whereas he is French in the novel), but that is nowhere in the book.
I want to read some science fiction but I don’t know any good contemporary sci-fi. I figure that the best place to start is with Verne since he is considered the father of sci fi. I have a feeling though that his 60+ stories will have similar story lines. We’ll see…I hope to read 2-3 of his stories this year.
I just thought of this. You might find this interesting. One of Verne’s stories was adapted into a 1902 silent film by the filmmaker Georges Méliès. After it was filmed, it was hand colored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_R4borJ3bk
Thank You! 🙂
It was very entertaining! I saw the moon on a Smashing Pumpkins album cover,but never knew where it was from!