September's TBR Pile (7/10):

1. MVPA Book Club Selection: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff √
2. Series Pick: Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine √
3. Nonfiction Pick: The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick
4. Read Your Book Shelf Pick: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa (put in the sell pile; just not speaking to me anymore)
5. Discworld Pick: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
6. Romance Pick: One Night for Love by Mary Balogh √
7. Comic Pick: The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 5 √
8. Added: The Great Quake by Henry Fountain √
9. Added: The Lost City of Z by David Grann √
10. Added: Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine √

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 2320 pages
Pages Remaining: 709,892 pages

Current Read - The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick

Books I Gave Up On (1) -- Children of Eden by Joey Graceffa. A YA Dystopian novel that I just couldn't get into. I think this one would have grabbed me when I was 15. Alas, I am not 15 and consequently I am just bored by it.

Books bought/received (1) -- I ended up preordering Anne Bogel's Reading People. Because I preordered, I get the audio version read by Anne herself as a bonus. 

October's TBR Pile:

1. MVPA Book Club Selection: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
2. Series Pick: Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell (not pictured; library hold)
3. Nonfiction Pick: Reading People by Anne Bogel
4. Nonfiction Pick: The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick
5. Read Your Book Shelf Pick: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
6. Discworld Pick: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (iPad)
7. Scary Pick: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft
8. Scary Pick: The Gates by John Connolly
9. Scary Pick: Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
10. Scare Pick: 99 Coffins by David Wellington
11. Scary Pick: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
12. Scary Pick: 8.4 Peter Hernon
13. Nonfiction Scary Pick: The Devil in the Shape of a Woman by Carol Karlsen
14. Nonfiction Scary Pick: The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall
15. More Nonfiction: The Tea Reader edited by Katrina Avila Munichiello
16. Food Pick: Voracious by Cara Nicoletti
17. Cozy Mystery: Cast-Off Coven by JUliet Blackwell (not pictured; library hold)
18. The Mummy by Anne Rice (iPad)

Movies watched

• Wonder Woman -- Finally! And it was so good. Sure, there are some issues, but I loved seeing a badass female superhero lead a movie!
• The Great Wall -- Our silly big blockbuster pick. We made an agreement to not pick on the historical inaccuracies. Otherwise we would have never made it through the movie.
• Hot Tub Time Machine -- We needed a good silly comedy one night. This is a go-to!
• The Island of Lost Souls (1932) -- A classic from our Science Fiction Top 100 list. Definitely better than the crazy remakes...
• Sausage Party -- J's pick. It was thoroughly stupid, 
• Boss Baby -- Arthur's pick. Actually a pretty decent animated movie. Alec Baldwin voicing the baby was perfect casting!
• The Lost City of Z -- Amazingly this movie did not make me as angry as I thought it would. Decent adaptation of a book based on a true story of exploration in the Amazon. I would watch it again... 
• The War of the Worlds (1953) -- It's been years since I watched this one. Part of the Top 100 Science Fiction Movies. We're making our way through the entire list, watching some for the first time and rewatching others.

TV Shows watched

• Ken Burns' The National Parks -- We finally got around to watching and it was beautiful. 
• Supernatural S2 -- Working our way through the series slowly, but surely...
• Rick and Morty S3!!! -- Woot woot!
• The Good Places S2 -- Oh man! The first two episodes were great. I can't wait to see where they go with this season.
• Star Trek: Discovery -- We're reserving judgement in the hopes that the show is more philosophical than action, but the first two episodes were pretty good at setting up the series.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender S3 -- J finally fixed the files (they were in Hebrew), so Arthur and I can finally finish the series.

Comments - So I didn't reach my pages read goal of 2500 pages this month, but I wouldn't call the month a failure. I knocked off some decent reads and one bad one (Fates and Furies). I read two more volumes in one my newest favorite series, The Great Library. We also watched a fair amount of movies and watched a fair amount of TV. October's TBR pile is very ambitious, but I'm hoping to knock out at least half of the books pictures> I would love a good showing for the FrightFall Readathon.

Next up on the TBR pile: