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July 2018 Wrap-up

July's TBR Pile (14/21):

  1. MVPA Book Club Selection: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (not pictured) ✓
  2. TBR Pile: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
  3. Reading Assignment: How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush by Emmy Abrahamson
  4. Book of the Month Club (July): Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
  5. Comics Pick: Locke and Key: Heaven and Earth
  6. Comics Pick: The Walking Dead: Here's Negan ✓
  7. Romance Pick: Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed by Jo Beverley
  8. Romance Pick: The Stolen Bride by Jo Beverley
  9. Romance Pick: Emily and the Dark Angel by Jo Beverley
  10. Classics Pick: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (not pictured) ✓
  11. Horror Pick: The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
  12. Young Adult Pick: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
  13. Young Adult Pick: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
  14. Young Adult Pick: Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
  15. Mystery Pick: Give Up the Ghost by Juliet Blackwell
  16. Mystery Pick: A Ghostly Light by Juliet Blackwell
  17. Science Fiction Pick: Symbiont by Mira Grant
  18. Science Fiction Pick: Chimera by Mira Grant
  19. Novella Pick: Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
  20. Random Pick: Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
  21. Added: The Walking Dead Vol. 29

1,000,000 Page Goal:

Monthly Total: 3518 pages
Pages Remaining: 660,367 pages

Current Read - Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine

Books I Gave Up On (0) 

Books bought/received (1) -- Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye. I snapped this up from the clearance section at Half Price Books. We took in three bags to sell and only walked out with 5 books bought (2 for the twins, 1 for me, and 2 for Arthur).

August's TBR Pile:

  1. MVPA Book Club Selection: Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham (iPad)
  2. TBR Pile: Little Bee by Chris Cleave
  3. Reading Assignment: How to Fall in Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush by Emmy Abrahamson
  4. Reading Assignment: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (not pictured)
  5. Book of the Month Club (July): Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
  6. Book of the Month Club (August): TBD
  7. Series Pick: Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine
  8. Comics Pick: The Walking Dead Vol. 30 (not pictured)
  9. Romance Pick: The Stolen Bride by Jo Beverley
  10. Romance Pick: Emily and the Dark Angel by Jo Beverley
  11. Nonfiction Pick: College Girls by Lynn Peril
  12. Classics Pick: Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James
  13. Young Adult Pick: Unspoken by Sarah Brennan 

Movies watched

  • Rampage -- Way more entertaining than it should have been. Loved it!
  • Please Stand By -- An interesting coming-of-age story.

TV Shows watched

  • Jack Whitehall Travels with My Father S1 -- So incredibly funny! And we're excited to learn that there's going to be another season.
  • Bounty Hunters S1 -- We went on a Jack Whitehall binge clearly. This one was very fun. Here's hoping for another season.
  • The Tick S1 -- J made me watch this one and I loved it so much! 
  • Legion S2 -- Finally restarted the second season.

Comments - A big dip in my reading this month but no worries. I'm now back to my usual reading levels. I've pulled about 20 owned books that I want to read before we move in September. Hoping to get those knocked out and refrain from checking out too many library books.

Next up on the TBR pile: