August 2025 Wrap-up

August TBR Pile (14/17):

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 (couldn’t easily find)
4. Kid Book Club: Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac
5. Kid Read Aloud: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ✓
6. Kid Read Aloud: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll ✓
7. Kid Read Aloud: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin ✓
8. Thriller: Cold Eternity by SA Barnes ✓
9. Romance: Feathers So Vicious by Liv Zander ✓
10. Fantasy: A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall ✓
11. Horror: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ✓
12. Comics: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Vol. 1 ✓
13. Comics: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Vol. 2 ✓
14. Comics: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Vol. 3 ✓
15. Comics: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint Vol. 4 ✓
16. Comics: Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 26 ✓
17. Comics: Lore Olympus Vol. 8 ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal

Monthly Total: 4354 pages Pages Remaining: 135,960 pages

Current Read - Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (2) - I grabbed two books from Book of the Month.

• Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher (auto-buy author for me!)
• Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 305
• Books Read: 0
• Books Acquired: 2
• Books Unshelved: 0
• Finishing Number: 307

September TBR Pile:

1. Bookworms BC: The Antidote by Karen Russell
2. Friend BC: Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
3. Nerdy Bookish Friends: The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud
4. Kid Book Club: The Story Collector by Kirstin O’Donnell Tubb
5. Kid Read Aloud: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
6. Romance: Worth Fighting For by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Movies Watched

• Superman (2025)
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible II
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

TV Shows Watched

• Sandman S2 - We finished the series!
• Foundation S3
• Hometown Cha-cha-cha S1 - Finally finished! So good!
• It’s Always Sunny S17
• Resident Alien S4 - We finished the series!
• Game Changer
• Um, Actually
• Below Deck S12
• LuLaRich
• Native America S1
• SKZ-Talker
• SKZ-Talker Go
• SKZ Code

Comments - I’m still obsessed with fan fiction and it really impacted my reading the past month. I still managed to cover 11 books and a few homeschool reads. J and I rewatched the entire Mission Impossible movie series to then watch the last one that just got released. We also finished a few television series.

Next up on the TBR pile: