Book of the Month June 2016 Subscription Box Review + Coupon

Bookspan’s Book of the Month Club is a  monthly book subscription box. Each month their panel of Judges selects 5 books, which they announce on the first of the month, and members have six days to decide which book (or books) they would like to receive. All books are shipped at the same time, so members can read and participate in their discussion forums as a group. One book per month is included in the membership fee, and members can purchase up to two additional books each month for $9.99 per title. The monthly price is $16.99 per month, $11.99 per month on a year long subscription.

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Here are the choices for June!

The June Guest Judge: Roxane Gay, author of An Untamed State ($17.14 on Amazon)

The June 2016 Book of the Month selections were:

★ Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel – Guest Judge: Roxane Gay, author of An Untamed State ($17.14 on Amazon)
★ Shrill by Lindy West – Judge: Joel Stein ($16.25 on Amazon)
★ Modern Lovers by Emma Straub – Judge: Morgan Jerkins ($15.60 on Amazon)
★ Before the Fall by Noah Hawley – Judge: Liberty Hardy ($15.60 on Amazon)
★ Enchanted Islands: by Allison Amend – Judge: Alexander Chee ($18.36 on Amazon)
I had a hard time choosing a book. I already started to read Modern Lovers by Emma Straub when the book announcements were made. It’s written in the same style as Vacationers. You’ll love Modern Lovers if you love Vacationers. It was difficult to decide between either Shrill by Lindy West and Before the Fall by Noah Hawley.

I see a kitty on the postcard!

I selected Shrill by Lindy West.The books are shrinkwrapped onto cardboard and include a note from the judge.

I am excited about my book choice for the June 2016 Book of the Month Box!

Book of the Month included a fun postcard to share the love. A bookmark was also included with a quote from Jeannette Walls.

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by

-Jeanette Walls

I did not recommend the book as penance for all the sexist jokes I have written that I feel guilty about. I want you to read Shrill because it’s great. (Though I do hope it helps me with the guilt stuff.)

– Joel Stein

I selected Shrill by Lindy West because it sounded like a humorous and interesting read. I also selected it because I may pass it on to my teenage son to read to enlighten him. Despite everything, his generation has a focus on the outward because of social media demands. A little lesson on gender politics won’t hurt him.

Shrill by Lindy West – Judge: Joel Stein ($16.25 on Amazon)

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can’t be funny.

Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible–like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you–writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.

From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.

With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss, and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.

I am on page 36 and love the book! I cannot wait to finish it!! It’s funny and truthful at the same time. Joel Stein made an excellent choice. The book is holding up well. No pages are falling out or a broken spine.

I am greatly enjoying my June’s Book of the Month selection. I never know what books will be selected each month. Part of the fun is the anticipation of the next’s month selections.  Book of the Month is an inexpensive way to build up your reading library of favorite genres or to push yourself into unfamiliar genres! Skip if nothing interests you. Add on up to two extra books at $9.99 a book if you can’t decide! There’s even a discussion group.  Select a book by June 15!

What book did you pick this month? Share below and let us know!

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