Reading is my oldest and favorite hobby. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t love to curl up with a good book. Here are my reads for June, 2020…

Well, this is a new one – literally all I read in June was Lumberjanes.  That’s it.  Nothing else AT ALL.  I cruised through ten volumes of the collected trade paperbacks, and in a month that was nothing short of globally and personally turbulent, it was what I needed to read.  Between the ongoing pandemic, heartbreaking reckonings with our nation’s history of systemic racism, and on the personal side a house move, two kids who are at each other’s throats constantly, and a crazy workload – I just don’t have the attention span for anything more.

So, impressions – other than this being the respite my brain needed, I did really enjoy this monthlong lumber-binge.  The quality of both the writing and the art is a little variable – Noelle Stevenson left the team partway through the fifth volume, and neither the art nor the story is as good without her.  But every collection was fun, enjoyable, and made me smile.  There are mermaids, time shenanigans, Greek mythological monsters, and roller-skating sasquatches.  So how can you go wrong?  I preferred the issues in which the art was a little sharper and less cartoony, but all in all, this series is solid from the first page to the last.

And that’s all I have to say for myself this month!  My focus was elsewhere, but the heavy classics and Victorian doorstoppers will be there for me when I’m ready.  In the meantime, Lumberjanes made for a welcome escape when I was mentally exhausted from the slog of trying to be both a working parent AND an American in this heartbreaking time.

What did you read in June?  Any recommendations for good escape reads for me?  Nothing too mentally taxing, please – I’m not up for it yet.  But I’m working on getting there.