Six in Six - 2024 Edition

Another July has come around which means it's time for this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter, now in its twelfth year.

The aim of Six in Six is to share what we've read in the first six months of the year by choosing six of the categories given and listing six books under each category. More information and the list of categories can be found here.

This meme is a great way to look back on what you've read so far in the year and to see any emerging trends. Looking at what I've read over the past six months,

Six in Six - 2023 Edition

Another July has come around which means it's time for this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter, now in its eleventh year.

The aim of Six in Six is to share what we've read in the first six months of the year by choosing six of the categories given and listing six books under each category. More information and the list of categories can be found here.

This meme is a great way to look back on what you've read so far in the year and to see any emerging trends. Looking at what I've read over the past six months,

Six in Six is Back for 2022!

Another July has come around which means it's time for this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter, now in its tenth year.

The aim of Six in Six is to share what we've read in the first six months of the year by choosing six of the categories given and listing six books under each category. More information and the list of categories can be found here.

This meme is a great way to look back on what you've read so far in the year and to see any emerging trends. Looking at what I've read over the past six months,

Six in Six is Back for 2021!

Here we are in July, which means it's time for this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter.

The aim of Six in Six is to share what we've read in the first six months of the year by choosing six of the categories given and listing six books under each category. More information and the list of categories can be found here.

This meme has been going since 2012, but I've only participated since 2016. I found it's a great way to look back on what you've read so far in the year and to see any emerging trends.

SIX IN SIX - 2020 EDITION!

Here we are in July, which means it's time to participate in this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter.

SIX IN SIX is a meme where the aim is to share in July six books in six categories from the books we have read etc. in the first six months of the year, either using Jo's categories or your own.

Once again I've more or less stuck to the categories I used last year.

SIX IN SIX - 2019 EDITION!

Here we are in July, which means it's time to participate in this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter.

SIX IN SIX is a meme where the aim is to share in July six books in six categories from the books we have read etc. in the first six months of the year, either using Jo's categories or your own.

This year I decided to stick to five of the six categories I used last year and swapped "Six Trips to Europe and the U.K." with "Six books that are related to The Great War or Second World War".

SIX IN SIX is Back for 2018!

Here we are in July (only just), which means there's still time to participate in this fun meme hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter.

SIX IN SIX is a meme where the aim is to share in July six books in six categories from the books we have read etc. in the first six months of the year, either using Jo's categories or your own.

I started composing this post at the start of July, but due to a lot of procrastination have left it until now to finalise.

SIX IN SIX is Back for 2017!

This meme, hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter, is back for another year. It's the sixth SIX IN SIX (that's a bit of a tongue twister).

SIX IN SIX is a meme where the aim is to share in July six books in six categories from the books we have read etc. in the first six months of the year, either using Jo's categories or our own.

I participated in this meme for the first time in 2016 and had so much fun looking back over what books I'd read and slotting them into categories that I'm happy to do it again in 2017.

Six in Six (2016)

Six in Six is a meme where every July the aim is to share six books in six categories from the first six months of the year.

This meme is  hosted by Jo @ The Book Jotter, but I didn't know it existed until I read a recent post by Helen @ She Reads Novels and decided it might be fun to also look back on my reading for the first half of the year.

The idea is to choose six categories either from the list that  Jo has prepared or your own, then list six books under each category heading. All the details are here if you wish to participate.

I've only read 42 books so far this year which I thought would make it difficult to find six suitable categories.  By taking some from Jo's list and adding a couple of my own it wasn't as difficult or as time consuming as I expected. In fact it was a pleasant way to spend an hour. This is my result:

Six Books Read on My Kindle
To Love, Honour and Obey by Valerie Holmes
The Code of Love by Cheryl Sawyer
Endless Love by James MacManus
Past Encounters by Davina Blake
Shadow on the Highway by Deborah Swift
The Virgin of the Wind Rose by Glen Craney

Six Books Set in Australia
Sweet Wattle Creek by Kaye Dobbie
Lyrebird Hill by Anna Romer
A Tattooed Heart by Deborah Challinor
Thornwood House by Anna Romer
Heart of the Country by Tricia Stringer
No Beat of Drum by Hester Burton

Six Books By Authors New to Me
The Amber Shadows by Lucy Ribchester
All That I Am by Anna Funder
The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans
Oliver Twist Investigates by G.M. Best
In The Silence of the Snow by Jessica Blair
The Mind's Own place by Ian Reid

Six Books From Authors I've Read Before
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Foxing the Geese by Janet Woods
Highwayman Ironside by Michael Arnold
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St.James
Blake's Reach by Catherine Gaskin

Six Books With Over 500 Pages Added to My TBR Pile
Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine (544 pages)
No Man's Land by Simon Tolkein (566 pages)
Island of the Swans by Ciji Ware (584 pages)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1008 pages)
Daughter of the House by Rose Thomas (512 pages)
Sumerford's Autumn by Barbara Gaskell Denvil (502 pages)

Six Books From A Series
Shadow of the Hangman by Edward Marston (Bow Street Rivals Series)
Now Face to Face by Karleen Koen (Tamworth Saga)
Shadow on the Highway by Deborah Swift (The Highway Trilogy)
Where Serpents Sleep by C.S. Harris (Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery Series)
Fletcher's Fortune by John Drake (Fletcher 18th Century Naval Series)
A Tattooed Heart by Deborah Challinor (Convict Girls Series)