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June Wrap Up

I am laying on my couch, wrapped up in a blanket despite it being over 100 degrees outside, with a pile of tissues sitting next to me. I have gotten sick. Not sure if it's just a cold or what. But I am miserable nonetheless. So, I am getting some reading in and by some sheer luck have just enough internet connection to get my blogs updated. So here is my final update of what I read in the month of June. I am now about half way through The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien for the "Putting the Blog in Balrog" read-a-long event. This is my fourth or fifth time reading through the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And I love it just as much as now as the first time I read it. I will write about it some this week and again once the group starts reading it (they are currently reading The Hobbit which I just read in December and decided not to re-read again so soon).   

The 5 books I read in the month of June:
Fields of the Fatherless by Tom Davis - 104
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - 558 
The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins - 247
Candide by Voltaire - 146
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 227 
The number of pages I read in the months of June: 
1,282
 
The number of pages read year-to-date (middle of December 2011 - end of June 2012): 
8,446
 
Number of Classics Club books read so far:  
6 of 70

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