August 2020 Wrap-up

August TBR Pile (17/44):

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 ✓
41. Added: Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt ✓
42. Added: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov ✓
43. Added: Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau ✓
44. Added: Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6012 pages Pages Remaining: 521,019 pages

Current Read - Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt

Books I Gave Up On (0) 

Books bought/received (1) - I chose The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson for my BOTM selection.

September TBR Pile:

1. Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
2. Girly Book Club: Gods of Jade and Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3. Friend Book Club: The Holdout by Graham Moore
4. Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
5. UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
6. UnRead Shelf Random (June): Craft a Life You Love by Amy Tangerine
7. Unread Shelf Random (July): Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel
8. Unread Shelf Random (Sept): Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
9. TBR Random (Sept): The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
10. Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
11. Goodreads To Read Random (Sept): Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt
12. May Theme Wrap-up: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
13. May Theme Wrap-up: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
14. May Theme Wrap-up: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. May Theme Wrap-up: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16. May Theme Wrap-up: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
17. June Theme Wrap-up: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
18. June Theme Wrap-up: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
19. July Theme Wrap-up: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
20. July Theme Wrap-up: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
21. August Theme Wrap-up: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
22. August Theme Wrap-up: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
23. Theme 1: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
24. Theme 1: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
25. Theme 1: Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
26. Theme 2: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
27. Theme 2: Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
28. Theme 2:
29. Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
30. Horror: The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux
31. Library: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
32. Library: Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
33. Library: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
34. Ebook: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
35. Ebook: The Robots at Dawn by Isaac Asimov

Movies watched

• Jack Reacher - Very meh movie
• Max Reload and the Nerf Blasters - Cute little indie film
• Dynamite Warrior - Such a weird movie that J made me watch.
• Bill & Ted Face the Music - Decent movie, but very earnest.

TV Shows watched 

• Battlestar Galactica S2
• The Umbrella Academy S2
• Holey Moley S2
• Below Deck Med S5
• Below Deck S7
• The 100 S7
• The Orville S1

Comments - A decent showing this month for reading. I figured my reading numbers would go down because of homeschooling. And it happened. That’s okay. I still read a decent amount this week and am going into September with renewed motivation.

Next up on the TBR pile: