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July Wrap Up

I don't know what my problem is, but I am just having a hard time remembering to record and post my reading stats at the end of each month. I feel like I just posted June's and here we are already a good way into August and I haven't posted July's yet. Oh well. Maybe one day I'll get back on track with it. 

 It's not that I haven't been reading. I've been reading a ton. Maybe too much. Maybe not enough. Who knows. I have been soaking in book after book and as always enjoying reading through my long list of favorite blogs. I just haven't taken the time to stop reading for ten minutes and record my stats. Yes, that sounds incredibly lazy of me. But it's true. And why give up even ten minutes of reading when you are caught up in the middle of an amazing story? That's just silly to me.

Oh, and being only 7 months done with the year 2013... I have already read 14 more books and 73 more pages than what I read all of last year. Not too shabby!

Well. Without further rambling. Here are my stats for the month of July. 

 Books read this month: 
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 
Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples by Francis Chan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 
Gods At War by Kyle Idleman  
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees 
The Lost Daughters of China by Karin Evans  
Still Alice by Lisa Genova 
Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage by Kay Bratt

Favorite book read this month: 
it would have to be a tie between The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott 
and Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Oprhanage 

Least favorite book read this month: 
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
I wish it had had a stronger, better ending!

Number of pages read this month: 
3,360 pages

Number of pages read this year: 
17,362 pages

Number of books read this year: 
69 books

Number of Classics read so far: 
15 of 76

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