June officially felt like the longest month ever. When the month began, my kids had been done with school for a week. By the time it ended, we’d done VBS, swim lessons, church camp, Boy Scout camp, and I was in New Jersey with my mom and had been for several days.
Thankfully, my reading didn’t suffer. It was a fiction-heavy month partly because our youth group at church is reading some of the Narnia books this summer. June saw me finishing four of the Narnia books, which was a wonderful experience.
To begin with, I want to share my two favorite books from this month—one nonfiction and one fiction.
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
I read Green’s book on tuberculosis earlier this year and enjoyed it, so I decided to try this one. It turned out to be probably one of my top reads of this year. It is challenging, funny, self-deprecating, and realistic. Each chapter is an essay on a different topic, and at the end, he gives a rating out of 5 stars. Som…
