But you know, I am SO looking forward to it. I just need to figure out how to balance this challenge with the other yearly challenges I'm participate in.
On that note, I'm resigned to really cutting back on the reading challenges next year. I really am. Like say, maybe I'll only choose Reading Level 2 (read 2 books/month) for the Reading Assignment Challenge in 2017. Yes?
August Reads
Books Dropped/Put On Hold
None this month! Yay!
Currently Reading
Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels
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Mistborn The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (audio book)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (full cast audio book)
August Reading Stats
Total works read: 12- 9 full length novels
- 1 anthology
- 2 novellas
Average rating: 3.27 Stars
- Highest Rated: 2 books // 4.5 Stars
- (1) Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne
- (2) Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne
- Lowest Rated: Connecting Rooms by Jayne Ann Krentz // 2.0 Stars
Series I started reading:
- Brown and de Luca by Maggie Shayne
- Moreno & Hart by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin
- Mattie Winston Mystery series by Annelise Ryan
- The Lotus War trilogy by Jay Kristoff
- Extrasensory Agents by Leslie Parrish (a.k.a. Leslie A. Kelly)
None this month!
Favorite reads: Maggie Shayne's Brown and de Luca series was absolutely addictive! I'm looking forward to more from this author and more from this series, because I was just so in love with Rachel and her doggy, Myrtle. The little everyday details in these books were spectacular!
Disappointing reads: The lowest rated books for this month were all disappointments except for Endsinger, if only because I hadn't been expecting much from Endsinger anyway, based on my time reading the previous book, Kinslayer. But my really BIG disappointments, despite the average ratings, were Crash and Burn and Chill Factor. I expected so much from Crash and Burn because of Laura Griffin. And I was a little hyped with Chill Factor because of the premise and the touted "Queen of Romantic Suspense" title given to Sandra Brown.
I'm inclined to believe that Laura Griffin hit a rough patch; and that Chill Factor was not the Sandra Brown book to begin with. Still holding out hope.
Reviews & Notable Posts
Reviews Written
- Sleep with the Lights On by Maggie Shayne
- Dream of Danger (novella) by Maggie Shayne
- Wake to Darkness by Maggie Shayne
- Innocent Prey by Maggie Shayne
- Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne
- Love Me To Death by Allison Brennan || Review transfer
- Chill Factor by Sandra Brown
- Connecting Rooms (novella) by Jayne Ann Krentz
- Smart and Sexy by Jill Shalvis || Review transfer
- Strong and Sexy by Jill Shalvis || Review transfer
- Superb and Sexy by Jill Shalvis || Review transfer
- Not Another Blind Date... anthology (Janelle Denison, Leslie Kelly, Jo Leigh)
- Crash and Burn by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin
- Working Stiff by Annelise Ryan
- Endsinger by Jay Kristoff
Memes
- 8/2/16 Top Ten Tuesday: Loaded Gift Card Shopping Spree!
- 8/6/16 My TBR List: August Voting
- 8/9/16 Top Ten Tuesday: Topic Rewind Week!
- 8/13/16 My TBR List -- Winning Book Announcement!
- 8/23/16 Top Ten Tuesday: Overdue TBR From My Shelves
- 8/30/16 Top Ten Tuesday: Back to School Freebie
Other Posts
Coming Up In September
Tentative TBR
Other Stuff
So the biggest thing going on in upcoming months in my bookish life is definitely Halloween Bingo! The lovely people in the Booklikes community have been coming together in preparation for this bingo challenge and it has been lots of fun already. I definitely got a bit obsessed with finding a book for each Bingo square, and now I'm determined to try and fill each and every one of them. The above listed books are all challenge books--whether Reading Assignment Challenge, or Halloween Bingo Challenge--and I intend to get a lot of reading done in these next two months.2016 Wrap-Ups
See Also: 2015 Reading Wrap-Up posts (scroll to bottom of page)Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- January 2016
Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- February 2016
Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- March 2016
Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- April 2016
Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- May 2016
Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- June 2016
Monthly Reading Wrap Up -- July 2016
A Curious Beginning and Murder of Crows were both 5 star reads for me (or 5 paws if you follow my blog). I can't recommend them enough. I have the second Deanna Raybourn ARC to read but it doesn't come out until January so it will be awhile before I get to it.
ReplyDeleteI loved Written in Red, so I'm looking forward to Murder of Crows. As for A Curious Beginning, I just started reading it and I'm loving it a lot. I might even chance to say that I'm liking it more than I did Raybourn's Julia Grey series. Veronica Speedwell is such a delight!
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