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Very mediocre reading month… The best were Blacktop Wasteland, The Housemaid and Any Other Family. My book spin and double Bookspin we‘re just okay.

It's hard to believe June is almost over, feels like it only started yesterday. I have two days off during this readathon, so I'm hoping to make 20 hours.
#20in4 @Andrew65

132 of 200 books read by end of June 2018 - 50,557 pages
Read 23 books in June 2018 - 9,389 pages

#Junereads #Junestats

Before 1963, there wasn‘t a single law that mandated reporting “battered child syndrome”; by 1967 all fifty states had one on the books.

Then the investigator has to find a place for the kids to go. He brings them back to the office, where a social worker starts making calls—usually to family members. In child welfare–speak, this is called “kinship care,” and New York State law requires it as the first line of outreach, though this law is often ignored.

A child abuse investigator can enter anyone‘s home at any time without a warrant.

A staggering and often heartbreaking look at the foster care system in the U.S. I couldn't put it down because I needed to know more about the kids and families profiled.

After two days of hemming and hawing over what to read, I stumbled on this on sale and it's just the kind of nonfiction I like. So I'll be settling in to reading once our long-delayed spring cleaning is finished later.