July 2020 Wrap-up
July TBR Pile (22/43)
Book of the Month Club: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
BOTM: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager ✓
BOTM: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Girly Book Club: Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert ✓
Friend Book Club: The Witches are Coming by Lindy West ✓
Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
UnRead Shelf Random (June): Craft a Life You Love by Amy Tangerine
Unread Shelf Random (July): Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel
Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Goodreads To Read Random (July): Dread Nation by Justina Ireland ✓
TBR Jar Random (July): Pines by Blake Crouch ✓
May Theme Wrap-up: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
May Theme Wrap-up: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
May Theme Wrap-up: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
May Theme Wrap-up: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
June Theme Wrap-up: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
June Theme Wrap-up: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora ✓
June Theme Wrap-up: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
June Theme Wrap-up: Across the Universe by Beth Revis ✓
Theme 1: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Theme 1: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson ✓
Theme 1: Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
Theme 2: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Theme 2: Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch ✓
Theme 2: The Guest List by Lucy Foley ✓
YA: Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco
Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Nonfiction: A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg ✓
Horror: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
Horror: The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux
Horror: Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
Horror: The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs ✓
Science Fiction: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells ✓
Science Fiction: Network Effect by Martha Wells ✓
Added: Once & Future Vol. 1 ✓
Added: On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen ✓
Added: Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold ✓
Added: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord ✓
Added: Galatea by Madeline Miller ✓
Added: Shrill by Lindy West ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 6736 pages
Pages Remaining: 527,031 pages
Current Read - Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt; Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (1) - My BOTM selection for July was Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I’m excited to dive into that one for August.
August TBR Pile:
Book of the Month Club: One Day in December by Josie Silver
BOTM: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
BOTM: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Girly Book Club: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Friend Book Club: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Unread Shelf Random (Jan): Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
UnRead Shelf Selection (Feb): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
UnRead Shelf Random (June): Craft a Life You Love by Amy Tangerine
Unread Shelf Random (July): Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel
Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Goodreads To Read Random (August): The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell
TBR Jar Random (August): Delirium by Lauren Oliver
May Theme Wrap-up: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
May Theme Wrap-up: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
May Theme Wrap-up: The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
May Theme Wrap-up: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
May Theme Wrap-up: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
June Theme Wrap-up: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
June Theme Wrap-up: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
July Theme Wrap-up: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
July Theme Wrap-up: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Theme 1: Partials by Dan Wells
Theme 1: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
Theme 1: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Theme 2: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
Theme 2: Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams
Theme 2: TBD
YA: Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco
Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Horror: The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux
Horror: Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
MMD: Beach Read by Emily Henry
MMD:: Redhead By the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
MMD: Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
Library: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Library: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Library: The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck
Library: Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke
Romance: Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt
Romance: Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt
Movies watched
Stuffed - Strange doc about taxidermists. Loved it!
Overboard (2018) - Not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but not good.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - J made me watch. Way funnier than I anticipated.
Eurovision - Tonally all over the place, but had some great funny moments.
Palm Springs - Total delight! Loved Andy Sandberg.
Yesterday - Don’t think about it too hard and then it’s great.
The Personal History of David Copperfield - Such a delightful movie. Loved it.
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home - We needed some light-hearted fun!
The Bit Player - Fascinating documentary about Claude Shannon
The Current War - A bit muddled, but decent.
TV Shows watched
Battlestar Galactica S2
Below Deck: Med S3
Cosmos S2
Avenue 5 S1 - This was a delight! I can’t wait for S2.
The 100 S7
Comments - Holy cow! Another huge reading moth! I knocked off a ton of books from my TBR pile and didn’t add to many. Looking forward to August. I imagine my reading will go down a bit with Arthur starting homeschooling and lots of big changes to our very lax schedule right now.
Next up on the TBR pile: