August 2019 Wrap-up
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- monthly wrap-up
August TBR Pile (22/28):
- 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: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
- 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 by Kerry Winfrey ✓
- 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 ✓
- Added: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell ✓
- Added: The Girl in Red by Christina Henry ✓
- Added: Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl ✓
- Added: State of the Union by Nick Hornby ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 7185 pages Pages Remaining: 590.896 pages
Current Read - Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (0)
September TBR Pile:
- Carry-over: Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist
- Book of the Month Club: In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Book of the Month Club: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
- Book of the Month Club: Well Met by Jen DeLuca
- Girly Book Club: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- Friend Book Club: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams
- Book Club: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- Perpetual Pick: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
- UnRead Shelf Pick: Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- UnRead Shelf Pick: Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
- Random TBR Pick: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Ebook: Waiting for a Rogue Like You by Samantha Holt
- Ebook: What’s a Rogue Got to Do with It by Samantha Holt
- Series Pick: Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
- Monthly Keyword:The Bookfish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
- Monthly Motif: 1776 by David McCullough
- Nonfiction: Bad Blood by Jon Carreyou
- Nonfiction: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Nonfiction: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
- Fantasy: Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta
- Fantasy: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
- Science Fiction: Alien: Echo by Mira Grant
- Mystery: Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen
- Mystery: Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen
- Mystery: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Horror: The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
- Horror: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- Historical Fiction: The Lake House by Kate Morton
- Creativity: Craft a Life by Amy Tangerine
- Anne Bogel Summer Rec: Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty
- Anne Bogel Summer Rec: The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
Movies watched
- The Grinch - I took the kids to a Wednesday morning showing. Cute expansion of the book.
- Levitated Mass - Interesting documentary about an art installation.
- The King of Kong - J has been wanting me to watch this documentary for awhile now. I was no expecting all those twists and turns.
- John Wick 3 - Finally got to see this one. So good! But the real stars of the movie were those dogs!
- Shadow - The set design of this movie is just amazing. And the last 40 minutes are bananas!
- The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - Meh… I loved the ballet interlude, but the rest of the movie seemed a bit disjointed.
TV Shows watched
- The Boys S1 - We were concerned, but this adaptation was amazing. Can’t wait to see what they do for S2.
- Stranger Things S3 - Loved that they amped up the horror this season.
- Game of Thrones S2-4 - We’ve finally made it past the Red and Purple Weddings. I think we are now caught up to where we stopped watching.
- Legion S3 - Slowly working our way through this season.
- Wu Assassins S1 - Hmmm.. mixed feelings about this series. The action scenes are incredibly. The exposition and pacing was very off.
- Lucifer S4 - I finally caught up and now have to wait until S5 airs.
- The 100 S6 - Another cliffhanger ending of course.
Comments - Wow! I thought August would be a huge slowdown for my reading, but that did not happen. Instead, I had a huge reading month knocking off a ton of titles from my TBR.
Next up on the TBR pile:
