It’s time for a look at my JULY reading life!
It’s time for another wrap-up/haul post — and some fun stats!
July was another very busy month! It was SO miserably hot here, as I’m sure a lot of you will relate to, so I spent a lot of the month in chronic pain and fatigue flare-ups. August is still expected to be pretty hot, but so far it’s been much better than July was (especially at night), so I’m hoping for some relief over the next few weeks. I have some really exciting stuff coming up in the next few weeks, like a Simple Plan concert in the middle of this month and a new tattoo appointment at the beginning of September, plus I’m just counting down to autumn and Halloween! 🥳🎃 What are you looking forward to, and how was July for you?
What I read:
(each title link will direct you to my review for more thoughts!)
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✨ review copy → 💞 buddy/group read → 🔁 re-read → 🎧 audiobook → 🍰 graphic novel/manga
🤷♀️ TBR jar → 🗓️ 2023 TBR → 🌻 seasonal TBR
- Fourth Wing // Rebecca Yarros 💞
- FantasticLand // Mike Bockoven 💞
- The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess // Cassandra Clare & Hye-Kyung Baek 🍰
- Creepy Cat, Vol. 3 // Cotton Valent 🍰
- Our Wives Under the Sea // Julia Armfield ✨💞
- Mr. Goodnight // Kealan Patrick Burke 🤷♀️
- Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women // Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn ✨
- No Trouble At All // Alexis DuBon & Eric Raglin ✨
- Nightbitch // Rachel Yoder 💞🎧
- Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness // Melani Sie ✨🍰
- Saving Chupie // Amparo Ortiz ✨🍰
- Creepy Cat, Vol. 2 // Cotton Valent 🍰
- The Complete Maus // Art Spiegelman 🍰
- Dinosaurs Before Dark, Mummies in the Morning, Pirates Past Noon // Mary Pope Osborne & Jenny Laird 🍰
- Soichi // Junji Ito ✨🍰
- Witch King // Martha Wells ✨💞
- The Knight at Dawn // Mary Pope Osborne & Jenny Laird 🍰
- Sex Cult Nun // Faith Jones 💞🎧
- Creepy Creatures // R.L. Stine 🍰
- A Legacy of Violence, Vol. 1 // Cullen Bunn ✨🍰
- nothing this month!
Witch King is here and in the 3-stars section because I did DNF it, but I read most of it, so I gave it a rating anyways. 🤷♀️
- Witch King // Martha Wells ✨💞
- Chained // Matt Shaw 🤷♀️
And now, for some of my favorite recent hauls:
- The Inconsolables // Michael Wehunt (print purchase)
- Midnight Under the Big Top // Brian James Freeman (kindle purchase)
- The Stradivarius // Rae Knowles (kindle purchase)
- Full Brutal // Kristopher Triana (kindle purchase)
- Starling House // Alix E. Harrow (print ARC)
- Sucker // Daniel Hornsby (print review copy)
- Dark Water Daughter // H.M. Long (print ARC)
- In These Hallowed Halls // Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (print ARC)
- The Collector // Laura Kat Young (print ARC)
- The Phoenix King // Aparna Verma (print ARC)
- Masters of Death // Olivie Blake (print review copy)
- Horror Library, Vol. 8 // Eric J. Guignard (print review copy)
- Cassiel’s Servant // Jacqueline Carey (print review copy)
- Vampires of El Norte // Isabel Cañas (print review copy)
- Mislaid in Parts Half-Known // Seanan McGuire (eARC)
- Out There Screaming // Jordan Peele (eARC)
- We Are Not Alone // Marc Hartzman (eARC)
- Never Whistle at Night // Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. (eARC)
How was your month? What was your favorite book you read or hauled, or what was something nice that happened in your life?
— destiny ♥
Tammy
August 5, 2023Wow, you had a really good month! I’m glad to see Nightbitch and Our Wives Under the Sea got such high ratings, I need to read both?
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
August 19, 2023It was a great reading month! I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on both of those 😀