June 2019 Haul/TBR Checkpoint

From the “series return” announcement:

If you’ve been following my blog for a while (at least since last April), you may remember my haul & TBR “roundup” posts, where once every 3-6 months, I’d take a look back at old TBR and haul posts and figure up the stats for how many of those books I had read since the original posts. I had a lot of fun doing these, so I’m not sure why I stopped, but I was recently inspired by Misty to pick up the series again — and this time, I’m changing each post to focus on just one month’s haul and TBR at a time!

I think I’d like each checkpoint post (previously named “roundup”, but I like this idea of a progress check-in term better) to tackle the posts from exactly a year prior, so I’ll be doing these once a week or so until I get caught up, and then they’ll just come once monthly. I hope you all like seeing these updates as much as I like writing them! ? UPDATE: Today’s will be the last “catching up” post — next week’s post will have us at the year mark, which means after next week, you’ll only see these once a month!

Side note: I will not be counting library loans or Kindle freebies in these stats. I also do not count rereads in the TBR checkpoints.

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Lol, I forgot until writing this post that June 2019 was the month I started with 34(!!!) ongoing reads. ? Some of the leftover reads were actually on my May 2019 TBR, which means they were in last week’s checkpoint post, so I’ll skip those.

? EMOJI / FORMATTING KEY ?
✅ read, DNFed, or in progress
? still on TBR
? removed from TBR without reading

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? Other Words for Smoke
✅ Club Dead
✅ Frozen Pact
✅ The Turn of the Screw (DNF)
✅ My Absolute Darling (DNF)
? Gideon the Ninth
? Slave to Sensation
? Little Darlings
? Ayesha at Last
✅ My Favorite Thing is Monsters (DNF)

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? Wounds
✅ Ghost Mine (DNFed, may try again someday)
? Missing, Presumed Dead
? Teach Me
✅ Hope and Other Punchlines (DNFed, may try again someday)
? Where the Crawdads Sing
✅ Orpheus Girl (DNF)
✅ Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
? DEV1AT3
? salt slow

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? Five Midnights
✅ Wilder Girls (DNFed, but definitely trying again someday)
? The Rest of the Story
? Ragged Alice
? Middlegame
? The Phantom Forest
? The Kingdom
? The Vanishing Season
✅ Birthday (DNF)
? Written in Red

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According to a note at the start of my June 2019 haul post, this was my “last big ARC haul” before an ARC ban… but I truly don’t remember how well that ban went, so I’ll be very interested to see how the July 2019 checkpoint goes. ??? Also, can we talk about how much better the “read” percentage is for this than it was for my May 2019 haul?!

? EMOJI / FORMATTING KEY ?
✅ read, DNFed, or in progress
? still on TBR
? removed from TBR without reading

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✅ Sorcery of Thorns
? DEV1AT3
? The Luminous Dead
? Chakra Healing
? Crystals for Healing
? Wicked Fox
? Wild and Crooked
? Keep This to Yourself
? Dahlia Black
✅ Ration

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✅ The Gossamer Mage (DNF)
? Slay
? Salvation Day
✅ Splinters are Children of Wood
✅ Bloom
✅ The Fearing #1: Fire & Rain
? Always Never Yours
? The Haunted
✅ BTTM FDRS
✅ Yuri is My Job! #1

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✅ Immunity
✅ Hitorijime is My Hero, Vol. 1
✅ Gleipnir, Vol. 1
✅ The Quintessential Quintuplets, Vol. 1
✅ 10 Dance, Vol. 1
? No One Here is Lonely
✅ Better Watch Out
? Come Closer
✅ Hearts in Darkness
? Darkling

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? The Widow of Rose House
✅ The Twisted Ones
? Small Kingdoms and Other Stories
? The Starless Sea
? The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics
✅ Aphrodite Made Me Do It
? The Mythic Dream
✅ Almost Home
✅ The Science of Monsters
? The Phantom Forest

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? I Love You So Mochi
✅ The Tea Dragon Festival
? Permanent Record
? Color Outside the Lines
✅ A Heart So Fierce and Broken

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So, do you ever look back on your old TBRs and hauls to check your progress? Is it usually better or worse than mine? ? Mine isn’t great in this checkpoint, but I’m hoping these stats will get progressively better — partially because I haul less books than I used to in the average month, and partially because I’m trying to get better about actually reading things shortly after hauling them!

— destiny ♥

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