August TBR Pile (22/28):

1. Book of the Month Club: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar ✓

2. Girly Book Club: You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld ✓

3. Friend Book Club: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

4. UnRead Shelf Pick: Booknotes edited by Brian Lamb ✓

5. Random TBR Pick: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan ✓

6. Ebook: Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor ✓

7. Series Pick: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

8. Monthly Keyword: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

9. Monthly Motif: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware ✓

10. Nonfiction: Columbine by David Cullen ✓

11. Fantasy: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

12. Comic: Lumberjanes Vol. 8 ✓

13. Science Fiction: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ✓

14. Science Fiction: Recursion by Blake Crouch ✓

15. Mystery: The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen ✓

16. Horror: Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist

17. Romance: Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin ✓

18. Romance: Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey ✓

19. Historical Fiction: Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini

20. Thriller: The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth ✓

21. Thriller: Lock Every Door by Riley Sager ✓

22. Essays: I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott ✓

23. Anne Bogel Rec: Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum ✓

24. Anne Bogel Rec: Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald ✓

25. Added: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell ✓

26. Added: The Girl in Red by Christina Henry ✓

27. Added: Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl ✓

28. Added: State of the Union by Nick Hornby ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 7185  pages
Pages Remaining: 590.896 pages

Current Read - Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist

Books I Gave Up On (0) 

Books bought/received (0)

September TBR Pile:

1. Carry-over: Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist

2. Book of the Month Club: In the Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick

3. Book of the Month Club: Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

4. Book of the Month Club: Well Met by Jen DeLuca

5. Girly Book Club: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

6. Friend Book Club: The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

7. Book Club: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

8. Perpetual Pick: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

9. UnRead Shelf Pick: Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

10. UnRead Shelf Pick: Kate Chopin by Emily Toth

11. Random TBR Pick: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

12. Ebook: Waiting for a Rogue Like You by Samantha Holt

13. Ebook: What’s a Rogue Got to Do with It by Samantha Holt

14. Series Pick: Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

15. Monthly Keyword:The Bookfish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

16. Monthly Motif: 1776 by David McCullough

17. Nonfiction: Bad Blood by Jon Carreyou

18. Nonfiction: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

19. Nonfiction: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

20. Fantasy: Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta

21. Fantasy: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

22. Science Fiction: Alien: Echo by Mira Grant

23. Mystery: Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen

24. Mystery: Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen

25. Mystery: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

26. Horror: The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

27. Horror: Wilder Girls by Rory Power

28. Historical Fiction: The Lake House by Kate Morton

29. Creativity: Craft a Life by Amy Tangerine

30. Anne Bogel Summer Rec: Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty

31. Anne Bogel Summer Rec: The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin

Movies watched

• The Grinch - I took the kids to a Wednesday morning showing. Cute expansion of the book.

• Levitated Mass - Interesting documentary about an art installation.

• The King of Kong - J has been wanting me to watch this documentary for awhile now. I was no expecting all those twists and turns.

• John Wick 3 - Finally got to see this one. So good! But the real stars of the movie were those dogs!

• Shadow - The set design of this movie is just amazing. And the last 40 minutes are bananas!

• The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - Meh… I loved the ballet interlude, but the rest of the movie seemed a bit disjointed.

TV Shows watched

• The Boys S1 - We were concerned, but this adaptation was amazing. Can’t wait to see what they do for S2.

• Stranger Things S3 - Loved that they amped up the horror this season.

• Game of Thrones S2-4 - We’ve finally made it past the Red and Purple Weddings. I think we are now caught up to where we stopped watching.

• Legion S3 - Slowly working our way through this season.

• Wu Assassins S1 - Hmmm.. mixed feelings about this series. The action scenes are incredibly. The exposition and pacing was very off.

• Lucifer S4 - I finally caught up and now have to wait until S5 airs.

• The 100 S6 - Another cliffhanger ending of course.

Comments - Wow! I thought August would be a huge slowdown for my reading, but that did not happen. Instead, I had a huge reading month knocking off a ton of titles from my TBR.

Next up on the TBR pile: