July 2023 Wrap-up

July TBR Pile (21/27):

1. Bookworms BC: Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman ✓
2. Bookworms BC: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
3. Friend BC: Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (reread) ✓
4. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Bees by Laline Paull ✓
5. Kid Read Aloud: TBD
6. Kid Book Club: NONE
7. Literary Fiction: Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
8. Literary Fiction: The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer ✓
9. Nonfiction: Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
10. Nonfiction: Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy ✓
11. Horror: The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher ✓
12. Horror: Silent Came the Monster by Amy Hill Hearth ✓
13. Horror: The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox ✓
14. Horror: Camp Red Moon by R.L. Stine ✓
15. Horror: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A Snyder ✓
16. Fantasy: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse ✓
17. Fantasy: Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young ✓
18. Fantasy: Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron ✓
19. Fantasy: Immortality by Dana Schwartz ✓
20. Fantasy: This Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost ✓
21. Science Fiction: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
22. Science Fiction: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ✓
23. Romance: The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
24. Romance: The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman by KJ Charles
25. Romance: Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood ✓
26. Romance: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez ✓
27. Romance: Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost ✓
28. Romance: Wasted Words by Staci Hart ✓
29. Comics: Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6988 pages Pages Remaining: 310,119 pages

Current Read - Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (3)

• Ordinary Monsters by J.M Miro
• Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
• Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 342
• Books Read: 6
• Books Acquired: 3
• Books Unshelved: 0
• Finishing Number: 339

August TBR Pile: With the start of school, I’m not going to overwhelm my planned TBR. Let’s just go with these few books to start. I know I will have a ton more checkouts from the library and I have all those books from my library.

1. Bookworms BC: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
2. Friend BC: Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
4. Kid Read Aloud: TBD
5. Kid Book Club: Wildoak by CC Harrington
6. Nonfiction: Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson
7. Romance: The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman by KJ Charles

Movies Watched

• The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf
• Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
• Asteroid City
• Get Smart (rewatch with the kids)
• Romancing the Stone (rewatch with the kids)
• Crocodile Dundee (rewatch with the kids)

TV Shows Watched 

• Human Target S2
• Below Deck: Sailing Yacht
• Below Deck: Down Under
• The Bachelorette
• What We Do in the Shadows S5
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S16
• Foundation S2
• The Righteous Gemstones S3
• Good Omens S2

Comments - Another successful month of reading and media consumption. I read the largest number of books from my UnRead Shelf for one month. I read 6 books which was just amazing! Now I only have 339 to go (until I buy more).

Next up on the TBR pile: