July 2020 Wrap-up

July TBR Pile (22/43)

1. Book of the Month Club: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
2. BOTM: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager ✓
3. BOTM: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
4. Girly Book Club: Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert ✓
5. Friend Book Club: The Witches are Coming by Lindy West ✓
6. Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
7. UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
8. UnRead Shelf Random (June): Craft a Life You Love by Amy Tangerine
9. Unread Shelf Random (July): Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel
10. Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
11. Goodreads To Read Random (July): Dread Nation by Justina Ireland ✓
12. TBR Jar Random (July): Pines by Blake Crouch ✓
13. May Theme Wrap-up: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
14. May Theme Wrap-up: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
15. May Theme Wrap-up: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. May Theme Wrap-up: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. June Theme Wrap-up: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
18. June Theme Wrap-up: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora ✓
19. June Theme Wrap-up: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
20. June Theme Wrap-up: Across the Universe by Beth Revis ✓
21. Theme 1: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
22. Theme 1: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson ✓
23. Theme 1: Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
24. Theme 2: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
25. Theme 2: Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch ✓
26. Theme 2: The Guest List by Lucy Foley ✓
27. YA: Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco
28. Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
29. Nonfiction: A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg ✓
30. Horror: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
31. Horror: The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux
32. Horror: Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
33. Horror: The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs ✓
34. Science Fiction: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✓
35. Science Fiction: Network Effect by Martha Wells ✓
36. Added: Once & Future Vol. 1 ✓
37. Added: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo ✓
38. Added: On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen ✓
39. Added: Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold ✓
40. Added: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord ✓
41. Added: Galatea by Madeline Miller ✓
42. Added: Shrill by Lindy West ✓
43. Added: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6736 pages Pages Remaining: 527,031 pages

Current Read - Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt; Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco

Books I Gave Up On (0) 

Books bought/received (1) - My BOTM selection for July was Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I’m excited to dive into that one for August.

August TBR Pile:

1. Book of the Month Club: One Day in December by Josie Silver
2. BOTM: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
3. BOTM: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
4. Girly Book Club: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
5. Friend Book Club: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
6. Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
7. UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
8. UnRead Shelf Random (June): Craft a Life You Love by Amy Tangerine
9. Unread Shelf Random (July): Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel
10. Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
11. Goodreads To Read Random (August): The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell
12. TBR Jar Random (August): Delirium by Lauren Oliver
13. May Theme Wrap-up: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
14. May Theme Wrap-up: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
15. May Theme Wrap-up: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. May Theme Wrap-up: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. May Theme Wrap-up: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
18. June Theme Wrap-up: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
19. June Theme Wrap-up: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
20. July Theme Wrap-up: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
21. July Theme Wrap-up: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
22. Theme 1: Partials by Dan Wells
23. Theme 1: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
24. Theme 1: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
25. Theme 2: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
26. Theme 2: Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
27. Theme 2: TBD
28. YA: Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco
29. Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
30. Horror: The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux
31. Horror: Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
32. MMD: Beach Read by Emily Henry
33. MMD:: Redhead By the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
34. MMD: Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
35. Library: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
36. Library: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
37. Library: The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck
38. Library: Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke
39. Romance: Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
40. Romance: Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

Movies watched

• Stuffed - Strange doc about taxidermists. Loved it!
• Overboard (2018) - Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but not good.
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - J made me watch. Way funnier than I anticipated.
• Eurovision - Tonally all over the place, but had some great funny moments.
• Palm Springs - Total delight! Loved Andy Sandberg.
• Yesterday - Don’t think about it too hard and then it’s great.
• The Personal History of David Copperfield - Such a delightful movie. Loved it.
• Psych 2: Lassie Come Home - We needed some light-hearted fun!
• The Bit Player - Fascinating documentary about Claude Shannon
• The Current War - A bit muddled, but decent.

TV Shows watched 

• Battlestar Galactica S2
• Below Deck: Med S3
• Cosmos S2
• Avenue 5 S1 - This was a delight! I can’t wait for S2.
• The 100 S7

Comments - Holy cow! Another huge reading moth! I knocked off a ton of books from my TBR pile and didn’t add to many. Looking forward to August. I imagine my reading will go down a bit with Arthur starting homeschooling and lots of big changes to our very lax schedule right now.

Next up on the TBR pile: