July 2019 Wrap-up
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- monthly wrap-up
July TBR Pile (17/31):
- Book of the Month Club: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Girly Book Club: Less by Andrew Sean Greer ✓
- Friend Book Club: Furious Hours by Casey Cep ✓
- UnRead Shelf Pick: ???
- Random TBR Pick: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys ✓
- Random TBR Pick: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield ✓
- Ebook: Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor
- Alphabet Soup: Only Ever Her by Marybeth Whalen
- Monthly Keyword (Lake): The Lake House by Kate Morton
- Monthly Motif (Through the Years): The Gown by Jennifer Robson
- Fantasy: Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- Comic: The Walking Dead Vol. 31 ✓
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 5 ✓
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 6 ✓
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 7 ✓
- Comic: Lumberjanes Unicorn Power
- Science Fiction: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Science Fiction: Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Mystery: The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
- Horror: The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones ✓
- Romance: The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
- Romance: Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan ✓
- Romance: The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson ✓
- Historical Fiction: The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes ✓
- Historical Fiction: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- Thriller: The River by Peter Heller ✓
- Creativity: My Friend Fear by Meera Lee Patel
- Added: The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis ✓
- Added: Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes ✓
- Added: Gumballs by Erin Nation ✓
- Added: The Mental Load by Emma ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 4767 pages Pages Remaining: 598,081 pages
Current Read - The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen; Booknotes edit by Brian Lamb
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (0)
August TBR Pile:
- Book of the Month Club: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Girly Book Club: You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Friend Book Club: TBD
- UnRead Shelf Pick: Booknotes edited by Brian Lamb
- Random TBR Pick: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
- Ebook: Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor
- Series Pick: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- Monthly Keyword: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
- Monthly Motif: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- Nonfiction: Columbine by David Cullen
- Fantasy: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
- Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 8
- Science Fiction: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Science Fiction: Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Mystery: The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
- Horror: Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist
- Romance: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
- Romance: Waiting for Tom Hanks
- Historical Fiction: Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
- Thriller: The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
- Thriller: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- Essays: I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott
- Anne Bogel Rec: Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum
- Anne Bogel Rec: Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald
Movies watched
- The Perfect Date - Pretty cute YA Rom Com
- Shazam! - DC actually got this one right! Very entertaining.
- Lego Movie 2 - Not quite as cute as the first one, but decent kid’s movie.
- Mary Poppins Returns - Hmmm… I liked it, but it’s a big disconnect from the first one.
- Wine Country - Loved loved loved this one. I think I might be Amy Poehler’s character…
- Always Be My Maybe - A breath of fresh air romantic comedy. Really good one!
TV Shows watched
- The 100 S6 - I’m finally caught up and watching in real time. Man, this season really took a turn!
- Lucifer S1, S2, S3 - I started binging this show right before traveling to Indiana. In three weeks, I’ve finished three seasons! My current obsession!
Comments - A slight dip in reading momentum (as I knew would happen with traveling and prepping the twins for school). But I did have a stellar month of reading. Unfortunately there was a few duds in my reads this month. Very mixed bag…
Next up on the TBR pile:
