June Recap

7 min readJul 3, 2026

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Well, this June…

I have done these the past three months for March, April, and May, so, let’s do it for June! Please pardon and poor spelling, slang, etc. because I am lowkey sick right now and my brain is only half functioning.

Table of Contents (of Sorts)

1. Random But Exciting

2. Books I Read

3. Favorite Songs

4. Writing Update

This past month was my birthday!!! I will not say how old I turned, or the day, for safety but so exciting!

I painted this… It is my best painting ever. That is my character, Ruler of Twilight at sun set, (but it looks like dawn) and it is spring. What do you think?

Fuge Camp

Yay? Okay, I love Fuge, but this year… For one, I got sick. I had a flippin fever. Second, the food was crap. It was awful. The food is usually very good, or at least decent. Not this year. And this is from someone who will eat anything without complaining if I like it or not. If I am complaining about it, it’s bad.

I also did this painting at Fuge, so there was that. In case you can’t tell, that is a meadow with a forest on the other side. Could you tell, or did I have to explain it? Please be honest.

Wedding

We went to a wedding this past month, that was fun!

VBS

Aka, Vacation Bible School. We had youth VBS from 1 pm to 3 pm, then kids’ VBS from 5:45 pm to 8 pm. I helped with crafts, like last year.

Recital

We had our performance!! There were two acts. Act one was a mini ballet of Sleeping Beauty. The second act was a recital for the other genres. Then finale. I did ballet and finale. That was a lot of fun!!

Books I Read

Wingless by Cathrine Witzaney

I reviewed this book around a year ago. The story is really good, chapters are short, the world is relatively vivid, but it is hard to keep up. I haven’t placed it yet, but this book is hard to pick up and even hard to keep in your hand for longer than one chapter. And the chapters are only a couple pages and only one scene.

It is about a wingless sprite named Asher. He hates bat sprites and tries to forget that his mother was one. And that he looks like her. But when his adoptive older becomes deathly ill, he will do anything to save her, even bargain with a bat.

He very soon regrets it when his sister leaves with the bat to help him grow food for the poor. Despite the seemingly good intentions, something is off, and it isn’t just Asher’s mistrust of bat sprites. Asher will have to rethink what he knows about bat sprites — and himself — to save everyone.

The story is a simple one but portrayed beautifully. But as I said, it is a hard book to keep up. One thing I realized upon rereading, it reads like a new author wrote it. No, shame here, me not even having published a book, just saying. Fun fact, I believe this is her first book.

No cussing, no romance, I would place this Juvenile Fiction.

Artemis Fowl: Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer

Book seven in the Artemis Fowl series!! This one was… something. First off, last month when I reviewed book… six, did I say he was fifteen? Because he was fourteen. He turns fifteen in this one.

Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has summoned an elite group of high-tech fairies to Iceland. He wants to present his invention to save the world from global warming. But something terrible has happened to him.

Artemis Fowl has become nice.

The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex (aka multiple-personality disorder) — dabbling in magic has damaged Artemis’s mind. And now the subterranean city of Atlantis is under attack from vicious robots and nice Artemis is no use to anyone.

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Okay, I like the description in the cover of my book better. (I have a hardcover.) This one will be hard not to spoil!! Artemis isn’t just nice. Actually, Artemis was the same. His alter-ego was the nice one. And Orion was a mess!!

Yes, cussing. At this point, mainly the fairy cuss word. No more romance than book six. Maybe a little less. It’s hard to tell. I mean, Orion wouldn’t stop talking about how he loved Holly.

I will mention, this book includes dark magic, which I don’t like. The bad guy uses black magic/runes to mind control.

For the fun of it, I want to show you the descripting in my book.

Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world’s greatest teenage criminal mastermind?

Captain Holly Short is unconvinced, and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common in guilt-ridden fairies, not humans, and most likely triggered in Artemis by his dabbling in fairy magic. Symptoms include obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoia, multiple personality disorder and, in extreme cases, embarrassing professions of love to a certain feisty LEPrecon fairy.

Unfortunately, Atlantis Complex has struck at the worst possible time. A deadly foe from Holly’s past is intent on destroying the actual city of Atlantis. Can Artemis escape the confines of his mind — and the grips of a giant squid — in time to save the underwater metropolis and its fairy inhabitants?

Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer

The last book… =’(This one gets… a lot. The magic in Atlantis Complex was… something. This goes further. We have possession here, by the undead.

It’s Armageddon Time for Artemis Fowl

Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen.

If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers — or two curious little boys by the names of Myles and Beckett Fowl?

Yes, it’s true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl’s four-year-old brothers could be involved in destroying the human race. Can Artemis and Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police stop Opal and prevent the end of the world?

Eh… Um… Hm… Yeah, Opal is back, again. I realized she is the bad guy in every other book starting in book two. Which is actually really smart because we can go longer with her as the villain. I don’t like undead, or possession. I doubt I will reread this one. Maybe a scene or two.

As always, cussing, the fairy word mainly. We have what some might interpret as LGBTQ+, but I don’t think what it is. Near the end Artemis Kisses Holly on the forehead and tells her to give it to Foaly. It is later explained that what he wanted to give Foaly was the DNA in the kiss.

ToF

Lowkey, nothing.

Hero of Yoson

Again, nothing

HC Book 1

Okay, so I got feedback on this one and, yeah.

That is all

That is my June Recap guys!! Hope everyone has had an awesome June and ready for July!

To The Wounded Tiger, olivia, Sushmita Chakraborty | Love, silence & the unsaid, and Mahdia Noor, how has your June been? Anything exciting? What are your favorite books, games, movies, and/or songs from this past month? What are you looking forward to for next month? How have you grown this past month?