September 2020 Wrap-up

September TBR Pile (14/42):

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
36. Added: Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland ✓
37. Added: The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell ✓
38. Added: The Hike by Drew Magary ✓
39. Added: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan ✓
40. Added: Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen ✓
41. Added: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert ✓
42. Added: The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner ✓
43. Added: Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 5453 pages Pages Remaining: 515,566 pages

Current Read - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones; Lovely War by Julie Berry; A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore

Books I Gave Up On (0) 

Books bought/received (3) - I ended up getting three books from BOTM for this month

• Gods of Jade and Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Piransei by Susanna Clarke
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

October TBR Pile:

1. Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
2. Book of the Month Club: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
3. Girly Book Club: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
4. Friend Book Club:
5. Unread Shelf Random (Oct): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
6. Goodreads To Read Random (Oct): The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
7. Theme 1: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
8. Theme 1: White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
9. Theme 1: Devolution by Max Brooks
10. Theme 2:
11. Theme 2:
12. Theme 3:
13. Theme Wrap-up: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
14. Theme Wrap-up: The Secrets of Drearcliff School by Kim Newman
15. Theme Wrap-up: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
16. Romance: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt
17. Romance: A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
18. Romance: Well Played by Jen De Luca
19. Nonfiction: The Witches by Stacy Schiff
20. Scifi: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
21. Historical Fiction: Lovely War by Julie Berry
22. Ebook: Dark Desires by Eve Silver

Movies watched

• Dolittle - Not as bad as I thought it would be. I think the biggest problem was the ridiculous accent.

TV Shows watched 

• Battlestar Galactica S3
• Below Deck Med S
• Afro Samurai
• Lower Decks S1
• The Orville S2
• Archer
• Travels with My Father
• The Boys S2

Comments - Decent reading month even with all the interruptions.

Next up on the TBR pile: