July 2025 Wrap-up

July TBR Pile (24/26):

1. Bookworms BC: Already read
2. Friend BC: The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
3. Nerdy Bookish Friends: Already read
4. Kid Book Club: The Mechanical Mind of John Coggin by Elinor Teele
5. Kid Read Aloud: TBD
6. Fantasy: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo ✓
7. Fantasy: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett ✓
8. Fantasy: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune ✓
9. Scifi: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ✓
10. Romance: Wicked Pursuit by Katee Robert ✓
11. Romance: Divine Intervention by R.M. Virtues ✓
12. Romance: Seoulamtes by Susan Lee ✓
13. Romance: The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton ✓
14. Nonfiction: The Darcy Myth by Rachel Feder ✓
15. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 1 ✓
16. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 2 ✓
17. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 3 ✓
18. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 4 ✓
19. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 5 ✓
20. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 6 ✓
21. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 7 ✓
22. Comics: Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion Vol. 8 ✓
23. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 19 ✓
24. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 20 ✓
25. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 21 ✓
26. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 22 ✓
27. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 23 ✓
28. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 24 ✓
29. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 25 ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal

Monthly Total: 6758 pages Pages Remaining: 140,314 pages

Current Read - Cold Eternity by SA Barnes

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (0)

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 308
• Books Read: 3
• Books Acquired: 0
• Books Unshelved: 0
• Finishing Number: 305

August TBR Pile:

1. Bookworms BC: Is She Really Going Out with Him by Sophie Cousens
2. Friend BC: (already read)
3. Nerdy Bookish Friends: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
4. Kid Book Club: Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac
5. Kid Read Aloud: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
6. Kid Read Aloud: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
7. Thriller: Cold Eternity by SA Barnes
8. Comics: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Vol. 1
9. Comics: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Vol. 2
10. Comics: Black Butler Vol. 1

Movies Watched

• Heads of State - Better than we expected.
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - We restarted our Nic Cage quarterly.
• Adaptation - Just as weird but good movie that I remembered.
• Wild Wild West - Introducing the kids to terrible movies from the 1990s.
• The Losers - Random movie that we never saw and wanted something stupid for a night.
• How to Train Your Dragon (live action) - Such a fun movie!
• Windtalkers - Not the best Nic Cage movie, but we made it through.
• Matchstick Men - Still really enjoy this Nic Cage / Same Rockwell movie.

TV Shows Watched

• Alice in Borderland S2
• Murderbot S1
• Hometown Cha-cha-cha S1
• The Sandman S2
• Foundation S3
• Game Changer
• Um, Actually
• SKZ-Talker
• SKZ-Talker Go
• SKZ Code

Comments - Fan fiction took over my reading time this month. I must have read at least 2 million words of fan fiction. I still somehow managed to read 24 books. And we restarted Nic Cage quarterly watching multiple movies.

Next up on the TBR pile: