The Ring and the Crown by Melissa de la Cruz

Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015 The Isle of the Lostby Melissa de la CruzĪlso by this author: The Ring and the Crown

Tagged as Consecrated Virginity, Fairy Tales, Monthly Wrap-Up, Pope Francis, Saints, School, Summer, Vocation Review: The Isle of the Lost – An Island of Villains and Their Children

I also read things that I wanted to read rather than what I needed to read based on review copies and such.

I survived 6 weeks without much cell phone service or internet.

I really want to talk a lot about that but I promise I will post more with pictures later.

As you may recall from a previous post, I spent the summer working at a great Catholic summer camp.

It has been a crazy month and a half! I will share some of my summer camp experience here but most will wait until it’s own post with pictures! Things that Happened in June & July If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, I will receive a small commission from the sale with no extra cost to you. Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Finishing the Series Challenge, Mythology Reading Challenge, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge June and July 2015 in Review I made some pretty nifty looking pie charts in Excel (you can just pretend they are totally awesome).

About a quarter of the books I read this year were debuts.

Over half of the books I read this year were hard copied (Paperback or Hardcover) while over a quarter were ebooks.

Over two-thirds of the books I read this year were from the library or books I own.

I must be pretty good at choosing books I know I’ll enjoy.

Almost all of the books I read this year were 4 or 5 stars.

This was the very first year that I ever kept track of the books that I read.

I had my very first ever Blogversary which was exciting.

I survived over a week of blinding smoke due to forest fires.

I wrote about it and shared some pictures.

I worked at a Catholic summer camp for the summer and had a blast.

I mentioned the school talent show in which the teachers sang Yellow Submarine.

The Ring and the Crown by Melissa de la Cruz