September 2020 Wrap-up
September TBR Pile (14/42):
Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Girly Book Club: Gods of Jade and Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ✓
Friend Book Club: The Holdout by Graham Moore ✓
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
Unread Shelf Random (Sept): Catacomb by Madeleine Roux
TBR Random (Sept): The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Goodreads To Read Random (Jan): Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Goodreads To Read Random (Sept): Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt ✓
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
August Theme Wrap-up: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
August Theme Wrap-up: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
Theme 1: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Theme 1: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Theme 1: Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
Theme 2: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo ✓
Theme 2: Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Theme 2:
Nonfiction: The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Horror: The Asylum Novellas by Madeleine Roux
Library: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Library: Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Library: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power ✓
Ebook: The Robots at Dawn by Isaac Asimov
Added: Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland ✓
Added: The Hike by Drew Magary ✓
Added: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan ✓
Added: Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt ✓
1,000,000 Page Goal:
Monthly Total: 5453 pages
Pages Remaining: 515,566 pages
Current Read - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones; Lovely War by Julie Berry; A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
Books I Gave Up On (0)
Books bought/received (3) - I ended up getting three books from BOTM for this month
Gods of Jade and Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Piransei by Susanna Clarke
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
October TBR Pile:
Book of the Month Club: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Book of the Month Club: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Girly Book Club: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Friend Book Club:
Unread Shelf Random (Oct): Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Goodreads To Read Random (Oct): The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
Theme 1: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Theme 1: White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Theme 1: Devolution by Max Brooks
Theme 2:
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Theme 3:
Theme Wrap-up: The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
Theme Wrap-up: The Secrets of Drearcliff School by Kim Newman
Theme Wrap-up: Sanctum by Madeleine Roux
Romance: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt
Romance: A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
Romance: Well Played by Jen De Luca
Nonfiction: The Witches by Stacy Schiff
Scifi: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Historical Fiction: Lovely War by Julie Berry
Ebook: Dark Desires by Eve Silver
Movies watched
Dolittle - Not as bad as I thought it would be. I think the biggest problem was the ridiculous accent.
TV Shows watched
Battlestar Galactica S3
Below Deck Med S
Afro Samurai
Lower Decks S1
The Orville S2
Archer
Travels with My Father
The Boys S2
Comments - Decent reading month even with all the interruptions.
Next up on the TBR pile: