Random Thoughts
August has turned out to be a great reading month! I will never catch-up on all the reviews I am behind in, but that's nothing new. I am looking forward to R.I.P., which should be gearing up this week. I have been trying to get everything I am currently reading finished so I can concentrate on that challenge. The autumn is my favourite time of the year, so I am excited. Right now we are getting the leading age of the storm known as Irene. It missed us mostly, so that turned out to be a thing to be grateful for today. I hope no one else in the path of the storm suffered too greatly. It is really muggy out right now.
Challenge News
I read a few historical fiction books. A lot of my mind has been on finishing some trilogies/series lately, so I did accomplish that. To me that is more important than challenges.
Weekly Reads
179. Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy (Completed August 22, 2011)
180. A Gathering of Faerie - Book Two: Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater (Completed August 22, 2011)
181. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson (Little Blue Envelopes, Book 2) (Completed August 22, 2011)
182. She Loves You, She Loves You Not by Julie Anne Peters (Completed August 25, 2011)
183. Sweet Tooth - Volume 3: Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire (Completed August 26, 2011)
184. The Unwritten - Volume 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Company (Completed August 26, 2011)
185. The Unwritten - Volume 2: Inside Man by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Company (Completed August 26, 2011)
186. The Unwritten - Volume 3: Dead Man's Knock by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Company (Completed August 26, 2011)
187. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Completed August 26, 2011)
188. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (Completed August 27, 2011)
Weekly Posts
Review: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
New Additions
Bought:
Nothing this week...
Borrowed:
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Hanff, Helene
Never knowing - Stevens, Chevy
The family Fang - Wilson, Kevin
The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks - Lockhart, E.
Sweet tooth. Volume 3, animal armies - Lemire, Jeff (Read)
The Lantern - Lawrenson, Deborah
Starting from happy - Marx, Patricia
Annabel - Winter, Kathleen
Loaded:
Nothing this week...
Received:
The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
Tell it to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
I'm jealous of your great reading month. Mine has been so pathetic that I've taken to reading short children's books to make myself feel better about an August of reading fail. I'm looking forward to those crisp autumn days, too. Hopefully they'll help me get back on track!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to RIP so much!
ReplyDeleteWow you read a lot this week!!! And I'm super excited about RIP too. Hoping it gets me back into the swing of things!!
ReplyDelete**Megan: I have had some bad reading months this year, so I am just hoping that the good ones continue...
ReplyDelete**Amanda: It will be fun!
**Chris: I hope it does, too!
Good Lord how do you read so much. I am so jealous! I wish I had your attention span. Of course, I wish I had any kind of attention span! I loooooved The Disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks. It was a lot of fun!
ReplyDelete**Heather: I am looking forward to the Frankie Landau-Banks book.
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