Taking Stock - July

Total Posts: 26
Total Books Read This Month: 58
Total Books Read This Year: 265

Challenges:
Audio Books: 16/ 50
Debut Author: 3/17
Mount TBR Challenge: 2/16
Picture Books: 15/ 51

The Good: Summertime and the reading is easy. I've upped my audio book reading thanks to long hours in the garden and walking my dogs.

The Bad: Still behind in my reviews. I favorited 6 books this month that I have not found time to review.

The List:
208. (10) Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins (7/1)
209. (11) Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli (audio reread) (7/1)
210. (12) Gone Fishing: a novel in verse by Tamera Will Wissinger (7/2)
211. (13) Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (7/3)*
212. (14) The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau (7/4)
213. (15) How I survived bullies, broccoli and Snake Hill by James Patterson (Middle School #4) (7/5)
214. (16) The Boy Who Loved Math: the improbable life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman (7/5)*
215. (17) Henry and the Cannons by Don Brown (7/5)
216. (18) Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guidberson (7/5)
217. (19) Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel (7/5)
218. (20) On a Beam of Light: a story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne (7/5)*
219. (21) Toys in Space by Mini Grey (7/5)
220. (22) Crankee Doodle by Tom Angleberger (7/5)
221. (23) Dozens of Cousins by Shutta Crum (7/5)
222. (24) P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia (7/6)*
223. (25) Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington (7/7)*
224. (26) That's a Possibility! A book about what might happen by Bruce Goldstone (7/8)
225. (27) Vader's Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown (7/9)
226. (28) Splintered by A.G. Howard (7/9) (audio reread)
227. (29) Annexed by Sharon Dogar (7/9) (audio reread)
228. (30) The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (7/10) 
229. (31) Muhammad Ali: the people's champion by Walter Dean Myers (7/11)
230. (32) The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman (7/11)*
231. (33) Ball by Mary Sullivan (7/11)
232. (34) Splish Splash Splat by Rob Scotton (7/11)
233. (35) Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems (7/11)
234. (36) That is Not a Good Idea by Mo Willems (7/11)
235. (37) A Big Guy Took My Ball! (Elephant and Piggie) by Mo Willems (7/11)
236. (38) Again! by Emily Gravett (7/11)
237. (39) Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown (7/12)
238. (40) Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone (7/13)*
239. (41) The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (7/13)
240. (42) Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown (7/14)
241. (43) The Thing about Luck by Cynthia Kadohata (7/14) 
242. (44) Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes (7/15)*
243. (45) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (7/16)*
244. (46) Hypnotize Me (The Hypnotists #1) by Gordon Korman (7/17)
245. (47) Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larsen (7/17)
246. (48) Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls (7/18)
247. (49) Zero Tolerance (The Odd Squad #2) by Michael Fry (7/18)
248. (50) Zits: Chillax: a novel by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman (7/19)
249. (51) Menace from the Deep (Killer Species #1) by Michael P Spradlin (7/21)
250. (52) If Stones Could Speak: unlocking the secrets of Stonehenge by Marc Aronson (7/22)
251. (53) The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle by Christopher Healy (7/23)*
252. (54) The Garden of My Imaan by Farhana Zia (7/24)
253. (55) Doll Bones by Holly Black (7/25)
254. (56) There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff (7/25)
255. (57) The Frazzle Family Finds a Way by Ann Bonwill (7/26)
256. (58) The World is Waiting for You by Barbara Kerley (7/26)
257. (59) This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers (7/26)
258. (60) Pug and Other Animal Poems by Valerie Worth (7/26)
259. (61) If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth (7/27)*
260. (62) Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch (7/28)*
261. Hurricane Heat by Steven Barwin (7/29)
262. Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer (7/29) 
263. Papa's Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming (7/30)
264. Night Boat to Freedom by Margot Theis Raven (7/30)
265. Nerd Girls: the rise of the dorkasaurus by Alan Lawrence Sitomer (7/31)