August TBR Pile (23/23):

1. Bookworms BC: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna ✓

2. Friend BC: Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang ✓

3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ✓

4. Kid Read Aloud: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien ✓

5. Kid Book Club: Wildoak by CC Harrington ✓

6. Nonfiction: Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson ✓

7. Romance: The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman by KJ Charles ✓

8. Romance: Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian ✓

9. Romance: Playing for Keeps by Jill Shalvis ✓

10. Romance: Wrapped Up in You by Jill Shalvis ✓

11. Romance: A Duke in Disguise by Cat Sebastian ✓

12. Romance: One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost ✓

13. Romance: Happily Never After by Jeaniene Frost (novella, no review) ✓

14. Romance: One for the Money by Jeaniene Frost (novella, no review) ✓

15. Romance: Reckoning by Jeaniene Frost (novella, no review) ✓

16. Horror: The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro ✓

17. Horror: Vampiric Vacation by Kiersten White ✓

18. Horror: Camp Creepy by Kiersten White ✓

19. Horror: Menacing Manor by Kiersten White ✓

20. Horror: The Deep by Nick Cutter ✓

21. Fantasy: The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker ✓

22. Fantasy: The First Bright Thing by JR Dawson ✓

23. Poetry: Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace ✓

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 6833 pages
Pages Remaining: 303,286 pages

Current Read - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

Books I Gave Up On (0)

Books Bought/Received (1)

• BOTM Selection - I snatched up The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas. We are reading this for October’s Nerdy Bookish Friends selection.

UnRead Shelf Progress

• Starting Number: 339

• Books Read: 1

• Books Acquired: 1

• Books Unshelved: 0

• Finishing Number: 339

September TBR Pile: Moving into spooky season and so my TBR pile is going to lean toward horror for the next two months. But I’m not quite sure what I’m planning on reading, so leaving the plan very vague.

1. Bookworms BC: The Mermaid by Christina Henry (probably won’t reread as I just read this)

2. Friend BC: Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen

3. Nerdy Bookish Friends BC: Timeline by Michael Crichton

4. Kid Read Aloud: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

5. Kid Read Aloud: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

6. Kid Book Club: The Last Human by Lee Bacon

Movies Watched

• The Blackening - Well, that was entertaining as hell.

• Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Very good retrospective music documentary. Lots of great highlights.

• Red, White, and Royal Blue - A bit Hallmark-y but a decent young adult romance.

• The Meg 2 - That was utterly ridiculous and I loved it.

TV Shows Watched - Apparently we cycled through a decent amount of television shows this month. More like a lot of these are currently airing and dropping one episode a week… But still, lots of good shows were watched.

• The Witcher S3

• The Righteous Gemstones S3

• Foundation S2

• Below Deck: Down Under S2

• The Bachelorette

• Shiny Happy People

• Get Back

• Agent Elvis S1

• Killing It S2

• The Great S3

• Only Murders in the Building S3

• Andor

Comments - Wow! Look at those totals. I thought that with the start of our homeschooling year and coop, my reading totals and television/movie watching would be very low. Somehow I found more of a balance than I thought I would. Very exciting for me.

Next up on the TBR pile: