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Here I go again 🙃

First Annual Get Off The Bus / Throw Out The Box Tour

Box Sets/Omnibus

✔️1. Kacy Chronicles Boxed Set: The Revelations of Oriceran💖💖💖1/15/22
✔️2. Elemental Origins: The Complete Series💖💖💖💖💖10/31/22
✔️3. The Smithfield Market Romances: A Sweet Regency Romance Boxset💖💖💖2/8/22
✔️4. Custom Culture Complete Series
5. Deadly Trilogy Boxed Set💖💖💖💖3/8/22
✔️6. The Six of Crows Duology Boxed Set💖💖💖💖9/29/22
✔️7. Insanity: The Complete Books 1-3💖💖💖8/31/22
✔️8. Heller Brothers Hockey💖💖💖💖1/22/22
9. Metal Legion Boxed Set 1, Mechanized Warfare on A Galactic Scale: Scorpion's Fury, Frozen Fire, Hellfire, Lunar Assault
✔️10. The Vigilante Chronicles Omnibus: Vigilante, Sentinel, Warden, Paladin, Justiciar, Defender, Protector💖💖1/27/22
✔️11. The Ascension Myth Complete Omnibus (Books 1-12): Awakened, Activated, Called, Sanctioned, Rebirth, Retribution, Cloaked, Bourne. Committed, Subversion, Invasion, Ascension💖💖💖5/26/22
✔️12. Heart of a Hunk: A Limited-Edition Collection of Bad Boy, Billionaire and Hunky Romance Heroes💖💖💖3/26/22

1. The Eleventh Hour Trilogy
✔️2. The Voodoo Dolls Boxed Set (Books 0-3): An Urban Fantasy Adventure💖💖4/26/22
3. Galaxia
4. Lilith's Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy

I will probably use some these box sets for the RMFAO series challenge

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Monthly Genre Challenge

RMFAO https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

RMFAO 2022 Genre-List:

✅January - Science-Fiction

✅February* - Women's Fiction or Westerns

✅ March - Mystery-Thriller

✅‣ April* - Young Adult or Graphic Novels

✅‣ May* - Classics or Literary Fiction Had hoped to read more😢

✅ June - Non-Fiction

✅ July - Game Month**
or or

✅‣ August - Contemporary Fiction

✅‣ September* - Humour or World Fiction

✅‣ October - Horror

✅‣ November* - Historical or Steampunk

‣ December* - Adventure or Fantasy

**Game month criteria July

1. Action Challenge - Book title contains a verb.
2. Family Challenge - Book title contains a type of family member. (i.e. father, child, husband, wife, son, mother, etc.)
3. Water Challenge - Book title contains some type of water .
(i.e. river, rain, ocean, pool, water, etc.)
4. Proverb or Catch Phrase in Title (i. e. can be a pun, nursery rhyme, variation on a movie/book title, popular phrase, etc. Often seen in Cozies and other mysteries.)

Yearly Total number of books in each genre; best fit for book

Science / Speculative Fiction
Women’s Fiction
Western ( expect none🙃)
Mystery/Thriller
YA
Graphic Novel
Classic
Literary Fiction
Non Fiction
Romance (women’s fiction?)
Contemporary Fiction
Humor
Horror
Translated
Historical Fiction
Adventure (coming of age)
Fantasy

OTSP Monthly Color Challenge

2022 Colors

✅January - White or Dark Gray

✅February - Rust or Pink

✅March - Spring Green or Lemon

April - Tangerine or Lavender
✔️▪️▪️✔️
May - Blue or Brown
✔️ ▪️▪️ ✔️ DNF ▪️✔️✔️
June - Green or Silver
✔️✔️✔️
✅July - Yellow or Fuschia

✅August - Red or Black

✔️September - Lime or Purple

October - Orange or White or Black

✅November - Teal or Gold

December - Sky Blue or Khaki

OTSP Monthly PIFM Challenge

✅January -
✅February -
✅March-
✅April-
✅May-
✅June-
✅July-
✅August-
September-

✅October-

✅November
-
December-

📚NBRC 2022 Cleaning Out The TBR Closet 📚

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Goal=50 Completed= 86
More books may be added over 50… my TBR is over 4K….

Box Sets/Omnibus
✔️Kacy Chronicles Boxed Set: The Revelations of Oriceran 😈📚1/15/22💖💖💖
Elemental Origins: The Complete Series😈
✔️The Smithfield Market Romances: A Sweet Regency Romance Boxset😈💖💖2/8/22
✔️Custom Culture Complete Series📚💖💖💖💖3/8/22
Deadly Trilogy Boxed Set😈
✔️The Six of Crows Duology Boxed Set💖💖💖💖9/29/22
✔️Insanity: The Complete Books 1-3😈8/31/22
✔️Heller Brothers Hockey😈1/22/22
Metal Legion Boxed Set 1, Mechanized Warfare on A Galactic Scale: Scorpion's Fury, Frozen Fire, Hellfire, Lunar Assault
✔️The Vigilante Chronicles Omnibus: Vigilante, Sentinel, Warden, Paladin, Justiciar, Defender, Protector📚1/27/22💖💖
✔️The Ascension Myth Complete Omnibus (Books 1-12): Awakened, Activated, Called, Sanctioned, Rebirth, Retribution, Cloaked, Bourne. Committed, Subversion, Invasion, Ascension📚5/26/22💖💖💖
✔️Heart of a Hunk: A Limited-Edition Collection of Bad Boy, Billionaire and Hunky Romance Heroes😈📚💖💖💖3/26/22
The Eleventh Hour Trilogy😈
✔️The Voodoo Dolls Boxed Set (Books 0-3): An Urban Fantasy Adventure😈📚💖💖💖4/25/22
Galaxia
Lilith's Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy😈
———
Women of the United Federation Marines Trilogy

Stand Alone
✔️The Economics of Prohibition😈📚6/15/22
✔️Whirligig😈📚3/12/22
✔️180 Seconds📚2/18/22
✔️Four by Four😈📚1/11/22
❌The Power😈📚 Decided this no longer interested in reading.🙁
✔️The Economics of Prohibition😈📚6/16/22
✔️No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison😈📚1/10/22
✔️Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile😈📚2/26/22
✔️Inheriting Edith😈📚2/23/22
❌ Solovyov and Larionov 😈📚just could not get into reading this.
✔️Whistling Past the Graveyard😈📚 💖💖💖💖💖1/4/22
✔️It Ends with Us😈📚💖💖💖6/19/22
✔️A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking📚💖💖💖💖💖2/19/22
✔️Manik📚💖💖💖5/13/22
✔️Itchiwan😈💖💖💖10/21/22
✔️Faces on the Tip of My Tongue😈📚💖💖💖💖9/12/22
✔️The Taiga Syndrome😈📚💖💖💖💖3/3/22
The Silent Companions😈📚
✔️Little Eyes😈📚💖💖💖💖1/30/22
Evening Primrose😈📚
Unquiet😈
They Called Us Enemy😈
✔️The Woman Watching😈📚💖💖💖💖5/14/22
✔️Grass😈📚💖💖💖💖4/6/22
✔️Perfectly Imperfect📚2/17/22
✔️Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin📚2/11/22
✔️The Clockmaker's Daughter😈📚10/5/22
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays😈📚
Vassa in the Night📚
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine😈
✔️Fever Dream📚 2/3/22
✔️Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking😈📚2/11/22
✔️Whirligig😈📚3/12/22
✔️The Binding😈📚5/29/22
✔️Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind😈📚3/12/22
Pachinko😈📚
The Regal Lemon Tree😈📚
Galore😈📚
The Murmur of Bees😈📚
✔️Undertow 📚6/3/22
Must Like Spinach😈📚
Bloodstained Beauty😈📚
Edge of Torment:😈📚
✔️Find Layla😈📚6/26/22
✔️Diary of a Mummy Misfit😈📚7/14/22

Next/ First in Series
✔️Black Ink😈💖💖💖💖9/4/22
✔️My One and Only Duke📚💖💖💖💖💖8/20/22
✔️Untouchable😈📚💖💖💖💖5/31/22
✔️The Complete Magitech Chronicles: Books 1-7 in the Epic Space Fantasy Saga😈 💖💖💖💖1/2. 1/3/21
✔️The Consequence of Loving Colton📚💖💖💖💖💖2/27/22
✔️The Consequence of Revenge📚💖💖💖3/1/22
✔️An Undeniable Rogue📚💖💖💖💖3/17/22
It Ain't Me, Babe😈
✔️Honest Love😈💖💖💖1/16/22
✔️The Wolf and the Watchman😈📚💖💖💖💖4/5/22
The Fifth Sacred Thing
✔️Kiss the Sky💖💖4/11/22
✔️Valerie’s Elites: Age of Expansion📚7/7/22
✔️Abandon All Hope📚8/13/22
American Gods
Tears of Tess
The Trouble with Goodbye
The Siren….rest of series?😈
✔️Let's Get Textual📚😈9/11/22
Illuminae😈📚
Hunter
✔️Daughter of Smoke & Bone📚8/11/22
✔️An Earl in Wolf's Clothing😈📚7/10/22rest of series?
✔️Sins of a Wicked Duke📚6/6/22
✔️Diesel 📚💖💖💖5/29/22
✔️The Selection😈📚💖💖💖5/9/22
✔️A Rogue by Any Other Name💖💖💖💖1/27/22
✔️One Good Earl Deserves a Lover💖💖💖💖1/30/22
✔️No Good Duke Goes Unpunished💖💖💖💖1/31/22
✔️Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover💖💖💖💖1/31/22
✔️Vixen in Velvet💖💖💖9/4/22
Die for Me😈
✔️Loving a Lost Lord💖💖💖9/12/22
Falcon
The Fifteenth Minute
The Clockwork Scarab😈
Gyrfalcon😈
Rosewater
✔️Fire Falling📚💖💖💖💖5/2/22
✔️Earth's End📚💖💖💖💖5/4/22
✔️Water's Wrath📚💖💖💖5/5/22
✔️Crystal Crowned📚💖💖💖💖5/7/22
✔️The Apothecary Rose 2/10/22📚
✔️Project Duchess📚9/21/22
✔️Ward of the FBI📚12/1/22
✔️Orphan Witch📚12/2/22
Special Witch of the FBI
Oath of the Witch
Cold Case of the Witch
Witch Fugitive
Untouchable Witch
Probationary Agent
A Necessary Witch

✔️The Lady Chapel📚 3/5/22rest of series?


Classic
✔️Editorial Wild Oats📚7/11/22
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Secret Garden
North and South
Siddhartha😈
✔️The Master and Margarita😈📚💖💖💖💖💖5/20/22
The Three Musketeers
✔️Foundation💖💖💖💖2/5/22.. Rest of series?

Audio
❌Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Did not like narrator so decided to just read the book
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow😈
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
The Necromancer😈
Rebecca😈
✔️Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World😈2/12/22

✅ NBRC Serious Reader Level 1= 100 books📚✅ Finished 5/31/22

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

NBRC Serious Reader Level 2 101-200 📚

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

On the Same Page 2500 for 2022

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅ NBRC New 2 Me Authors 😈 53 / 20 Continuing

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

RMFAO Classic Catch Up

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

LOBA 12+4 📚
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Another Challenge

📚Tome Reader 2022📚 500+ pages

Goal 10 books

Considering

✔️Checkmate 📔595p. 📚1/18/22
✔️Daughter of the Moon Goddess 📔512 p. 📚3/20/22
Consequences 📔 573 p.
✔️Untouchable 📔 541 p. 📚5/31/22
The Decameron 📔 909 p.
American Gods 📔 635 p.
Thinking, Fast and Slow 📔 512 p.
Illuminae 📔 602 p.
✔️The King of Faerie 📔550 p. 3/31/22
✔️Itchiwan 📔 668 p.📚10/21/22
Runestone 📔 576 p.
✔️Skyward 📔 513 p.📚4/7/22
✔️Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile 📔 640 p.📚2/26/22
✔️Terrier📔 581 p. 📚4/10/22
✔️Mastiff📔596 p. 📚4/23/22
✔️Bloodhound📔554 p. 📚4/25/22
✔️Shadow Scale📔602 p. 📚6/10/22
✔️Strange the Dreamer 📔544 p. 📚7/5/22
✔️Muse of Nightmares 📔522 p. 📚7/7/22
✔️The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story📔559p. 📚11/30/22

Just stop with challenges

OTSP Poetry Plays ECT Challenge

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Maybe one more?
Turn of a page May Monthly FINISHED

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Spring Cleaning
🧹Dusting 3 Books
Read a book that's been on your TBR shelf for over one year.
1. The Selection 🧽5/9/22
2. The Woman Watching🧽5/14/22
3. Master and Margarita🧽5/20/22

🧹Vacuuming 3 Books
Read a book that's on your TBR shelf AND from a series in which you've already read at least one book.
1. Fire Falling🧽5/2/22
2. Earth's End🧽5/4/22
3. Water's Wrath🧽5/5/22

🧹Make it Sparkle!! 3 Books
Read a book that's only been on your TBR shelf for 6 months or less (must have been on your TBR shelf at the start of this challenge).
1. Bringing Down the Duke 🧽5/3/22
2. The Elite 🧽5/10/22
3. The One 🧽5/10/22

No more!

Weaponized Pineapples 4th Q KU

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📚KU Fourth Quarter📚 Plan B

Completed: 0/13
(view spoiler)[
01/10 - 07/10 -- [Book]
08/10 - 14/10 -- [Book]
15/10 - 21/10 -- [Book]
22/10 - 28/10 -- [Book]
29/10 - 04/10 -- [Book]
05/11 - 11/11 -- [Book]
12/11 - 18/11 -- [Book]
19/11 - 25/11 -- [Book]
26/11 - 02/12 -- [Book]
03/12 - 09/12 -- [Book]
10/12 - 16/12 -- [Book]
17/12 - 23/12 -- [Book]
24/12 - 30/12 -- [Book]
(hide spoiler)]

Not a challenge…favs of 2022 OTSP
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Like your genre list!--I'm with you on the challenges! I said I wasn't going to do Popsugar again, but here I am filling out potential books (though I try to mostly put down books I already own & want to read).
Happy Reading!

I like the variety of your challenges, Beth. Good luck with your 2022 reading.

Good luck - this makes me feel much better: my TBR is over 4K….
Will be interesting to see if you do find another 4 challenges!!

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Good luck - this makes me feel much better: my TBR is over 4K….
Will be interesting to see if you do find another 4 challenges!!"

No idea if I can handle 4 more, motley maybe, I haven’t check out that list yet.

Omg, I'm laughing at your reserved spots - "Just stop with the challenges" "Maybe one more?" "No more!" That's how I feel. Well I can vouch for the following books, Whistling Past the Graveyard, It Ends with Us, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Secret Garden, North and South, Siddhartha, The Master and Margarita, The Three Musketeers, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, and Rebecca. All great choices. I'm clicking on the other books on your list, some I haven't heard of, so this is exciting. Good luck and hope you enjoy your books this year!

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "Just stop with challenges"

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "Maybe one more?"

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "No more!"


Bwahhahaha.... that's perfect!!!

Great list, Beth. Good luck and I will definitely be coming back to see how you liked your readings

If you look carefully, I see a little more room for another challenge 🤣

Ioana wrote: "If you look carefully, I see a little more room for another challenge 🤣"

No, Just No 🤣😳🤣 already regretting half of these…. 🙃

January Recap

Insomnia allowed for massive amounts of reading time. I think this is a personal best in page count…never to be duplicated!

Number books read is 20 (three of those were box sets/omnibus) in addition I finished a box set that I started in December…not counted in stats for the month.

Total number of pages read is 9,555 😳
Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 5
💖💖💖💖 10
💖💖💖 3
💖💖 2
💖 0

Finished 3 of my 12+4 and all my color challenge and PIFM books
These 20 included 13 of the 50 books from my old must go TBR challenge (owned) and 13 new-to me authors

Total number of books in each genre

Science / Speculative Fiction 4
Fantasy 1
Classic 1
Literary Fiction 2
Non Fiction 1
Romance and/ Women’s Fiction 10
Historical Fiction 1

*Translated 3 of the 20

Don’t think I will ever read 3 box sets in a month again.

Plans for February about 20 books (only 1 is a box set) This includes some short story and essay collections, which I rarely read because as soon as I get invested in a story it is over and on to the next one.

Insomnia has its hidden benefits I guess. I hope you have a great sleeping and reading month in February.

Sorry that the reason you had such a good reading month was because of insomnia, at least you were able to make something productive of it though. Hope that you don't beat that

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Sorry that the reason you had such a good reading month was because of insomnia, at least you were able to make something productive of it though. Hope that you don't beat that"

Bill wrote: "Insomnia has its hidden benefits I guess. I hope you have a great sleeping and reading month in February."

Thank you both. Hopefully it will be a great reading and sleeping month for us all.

It was a great month, too bad you had problems sleeping. Wishing you a good February, with sleep and lots of good books!

February Recap

It was a great month to catch up on some old books sitting on my TBR. I am disappointed to have started Solovyov and Larionov for the third time but stopped at the third chapter. I just can not get invested in the story. Oh well lots of other reads….

Number books read is 19 (one box sets/omnibus) and 2 audiobooks.

Total number of pages read is 6,254
Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 9
💖💖💖💖 6
💖💖💖 5
💖💖 1
💖 0

Finished one of my 12+4 and all my color challenge and PIFM books
Also very happy to have read more for the OTSP plays ect. Challenge. Starting to appreciate short stories.

*Translated 3 of the 19


Not certain about March reads but going to aim for completing two box sets along with my PIFM, color and genre challenges. This month’s genre is mystery and thrillers. Mysteries aren’t my favorites but going to aim for completing five.

March update,

Tackled more of the older books on my TBR. Insomnia is only good for reading, lol.

Number books read is 17 (two box sets/omnibus)

Total number of pages read is 8,704
Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 3
💖💖💖💖 11
💖💖💖 3
💖💖 0
💖 0

Finished my color challenge and PIFM books and 1 translated book.

For April I am going to attempt two more box sets and some graphic novels. The first read of the month was great so fingers crossed the trend continues.

What a great month, Beth. I'm so impressed by the number of pages that you tackle every month.

I would wear a t-shirt that says Insomnia is only good for reading. :-) It's the only silver lining to that frustration when you cannot fall asleep.

Lea wrote: "What a great month, Beth. I'm so impressed by the number of pages that you tackle every month.

I would wear a t-shirt that says Insomnia is only good for reading. :-) It's the only silver lining ..."

I find that reading doesn't help when I can't sleep, it seems to engage my brain, I have to watch TV, even though it goes against all advice! Mind you, I am that stubborn person who just lies closing their eyes in the hope of sleeping rather than doing something that will help make me sleepy! I used to wake up early on a Sat, and do half an hour of housework, watch a bit of TV, then go back to sleep.

April update,

Per my usual MO my reading went off track with the start of spring. I am ok with that because I found two new series I liked enough to read them in their entirety. It was YA and graphic novels month but I ended up with less GN and an excessive YA list.

Read my PIFM but did not get to all my color challenge. Oh well still a great month of books. I also got to read two books I won in GR giveaways.

Number books read is 20 (1 box set), 10 new authors!

Total number of pages read is 8,018
Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 2
💖💖💖💖 10
💖💖💖 5
💖💖 3
💖 0


May is Classics and Literary Fiction month. Nothing set in stone but definitely
The Master and Margarita
PachinkoThe Woman Watching

Considering Shirley but not sure if I want to commit to a Charlotte Brontë book this month.

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "April update,

Per my usual MO my reading went off track with the start of spring. I am ok with that because I found two new series I liked enough to read them in their entirety. It was YA and grap..."

Excellent month. I hope you do eventually try Shirley. I loved it. I've enjoyed every Charlotte Bronte I've tried and this was no exception. Good luck in May.

May Update

Second month in a row I didn’t finish my color challenge. My genre challenge was Literary Fiction/ Classics and I just wasn’t in the mood when I tried to start a few. I did finally read The Master and Margarita and loved it!

I caught up on a few series and finished a 12 volume box set so it was still a great month of reading. Think I am going to move my LitFic/Classics next year to February or March and see if I can keep on track.

I also managed to hit 50 books read in my Cleaning out My TBR challenge. That was my goal for 2022 (all books were on my TBR at least a year). This is the first year I actually hit my goal so I am going to raise the number. As of May 31 I have read a total of 100 books, 9 were boxed sets! In this respect insomnia rocks📚

Number books read for May= 21 (1 box set), 9 new authors!

Total number of pages read is 9,313🤯

Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 1 The Master and Margarita
💖💖💖💖 8
💖💖💖 12
💖💖 0
💖 0

June is my Non Fiction month. I have a pile to select from so just going to start a book and if I don’t like it within a chapter move on. I did just get a book of essays I won from a GR giveaway last month so definitely reading that. I also have a ton of romance books this month so it will hopefully be a nice balance. Plus I need a break from YA fantasy/ SciFi since I have been sucked into 5 series I had not planned to read this year.

Congrats - looks like you had a good month / year, having read 100 books already! Glad to hear you liked The Master and Margarita. I read that a few years ago, and was surprised by it. I think I rated it 3 stars though. Best wishes for your Non Fiction month - sounds like a great theme!

June Update


June dragged, worst reading month so far so this year. I delayed writing an update. My first book of July was great so decided I needed to reflect on the disappointment of June because the second July book is looking promising and I don’t want June’s “ bad book mojo” interrupting my momentum.

I managed 14 books (13 and a DNF) yet so many were lack lustre. I had planned several Non Fiction books(my genre challenge of the month) but chose a statistic laden The Economics of Prohibition, while interesting I had to dust off my economic and statistics “hats” and power on. Good book but definitely not light summer reading, lol. The DNF was also non fiction but I managed a book of essays that was enjoyable. I had hoped for 5-6 NF books but oh well.

June was also the third month in a row I didn’t finish my color challenge (got to 3 of 5). Unfortunately this was also the first month I did not finish a box set, again my selection just didn’t hold my interest.

Number books read for June = 14 , 12 new authors!
No translated books but I would have liked an Economics tutor this month because at times it felt like a foreign language and a doctoral thesis. (I’m rusty because I loved economics in undergrad and grad school)

Total number of pages read is 4,628

Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 1 Find Layla
💖💖💖💖 5
💖💖💖 3
💖💖 4😫
💖 1 😵‍💫

July is looking good. The Genre challenge is game month so we were given four tasks, that allows for fiction and non fiction.

Currently reading The Son of the House and When It Falls Apart. Looking forward to:

Editorial Wild Oats, can’t go wrong with Twain
The Nineties
Strange the Dreamer series
Firekeeper's Daughter
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
The Six of Crows Duology Boxed Set

Hope everyone has a safe, not too hot, great reading July!

I'm glad that July is looking good, sorry that June was so lack luster. I have Firekeeper's Daughter on my list too and I just finished the Six of Crows duology. I hope you like it as much as I did. Find Layla sounds like such a hard book to read. I added it to my list, but I'll have to wait until I'm in the right mood for it. Probably not going to add the economics book, though. Onward to July! :-)

July Update

A much better reading month overall; my big regret is not being able to finish The Son of the House. I thought with the start of August Hoopla would download book correctly. Unfortunately still the same glitch, but the local librarian has contacted Hoopla tech to figure out why the ebook crashed when they uploaded the audio book. Fingers crossed because I was invested in the story when the ebook imploded.

Number books read for July = 19 1/2 and one audio ; 9 new authors (darn hoopla prevented double digits 🤣)! One translated book, We Had to Remove This Post which was a very good read.

The first time in 4 months I got my color challenge books read!

Total number of pages read is 6,570

Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 1 Strange the Dreamer
💖💖💖💖 14
💖💖💖 4
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August is catch up month. I have several GR giveaways to read and I need to get one or two boxed sets. Lilith's Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia E. Butler I think.

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "June Update


June dragged, worst reading month so far so this year. I delayed writing an update. My first book of July was great so decided I needed to reflect on the disappointment of June becaus..."

I think your June was much better than any month I've had. At least you read books. I think my June (or was it May??) was 1-2 books. I think I even had a month of reading nothing.

I do want to say that everyones view of having a bad month are so varied, so I do NOT want to discount what you felt. I get it, i really do.

I do love that everyone that has been reading Strange the Dreamer, are really loving it. Glad this past month was better for you. :)

Alondra wrote: " I think your June..."

For me the number of books read is not important but did I enjoy what I read. I’m getting to old to waste time on books I do not enjoy.
So I was frustrated that 1/3 of what I read I didn’t like yet I finished because I was hoping for improvement. I hate to DNF. It makes me feel like I didn’t give the author a chance by quitting around half way in to the book.

August Update

Number books read for August = 17 ; 6 new authors

Total number of pages read is 6,211

Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 2
💖💖💖💖 7
💖💖💖 7
💖💖 1
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Up next
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia Took Hoopla 6 was to fix glitch so starting over.
Newly released
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

Theme of the month- Humor and/or World Fiction… a chance to finally read some of my translated books, hoping to read 5 books, mostly world fiction. Also two Color challenge books, three PIFM books, a couple group reads and some books I won in GR giveaways. All look promising so fingers crossed.

May you all have a happy and safe September!

〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "Alondra wrote: " I think your June..."

For me the number of books read is not important but did I enjoy what I read. I’m getting to old to waste time on books I do not enjoy.
So I was frustrated ..."

I had a DNF with Necroscope. My first one in a long time; I just couldn't do it.

Forgot to put in September update….

September Update

Number books read for September = 25; 9 new authors

Total number of pages read is 7,699

Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 4
💖💖💖💖 13
💖💖💖 8
💖💖 0
💖 0

October Update

Number books read for October = 14; 6 new authors; 1 box set

Total number of pages read is 6,461

Ratings
💖💖💖💖💖 1
💖💖💖💖 8
💖💖💖 5
💖💖 1
💖

Did not get to most of my horror books in October but overall both months had very good books.

Up Next

November theme is Historical of Steampunk. Going with historical to get some books off my tbr
Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

After that I am just going to read whatever catches my eye and possibly catch up on the two PIFM I did not get to in September and October.

Good luck with your November selections.