August
So there was me thinking that July was a good reading month with 6 books & 1785 pages when actually August was set to be even better! And that’s all because I had 11 days off work for annual leave – & it was lovely. August was full of a lot of ups & downs, with reading being the main up.
Books
In the Company of Strangers by Awais Khan
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Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2SV
GoodReads Review
Themes: 😍😢👊🏻💋🗣🧑🧕👩🏽💬🧠
Castle of Concrete by Katia Raina
Rating: 
Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2Tj
GoodReads Review
Themes: 😍🤓😢👊🏻🗣👩💛📜✡️💬
When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
Rating: 
Review: to be posted
GoodReads Review
Themes: 😢👊🏻🧑👩🏽
Altered by Vicki Stiefel
Rating: 
Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2TW
GoodReads Review
Themes: 😍👊🏻💋✨🧑🎪🧜♀️♿🧠
All The Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle
Rating: 
Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2Um
GoodReads Review
Themes: 😍😢👻👊🏻🗣👩💛📜🔍♀️🏳️🌈
Silverlegs I: Seed of Rage by Camilla Monk
Rating: 
Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2V0
GoodReads Review
Themes: 👊🏻🗣🧑🧜♀️💛📜
Nadine by John Stienberg
Rating: 
Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2Vj
GoodReads Review
Themes: 😍😢🧑
🏳️🌈✡️🧠
False Flag by Rachel Churcher
Rating:
Review: https://wp.me/p8MbIo-2VO
GoodReads Review
Themes: 👊🏻🗣🏜👩💛
Challenges
GoodReads Challenge:
As I read 8 books in August I made a good dent in my GoodReads challenge & took myself to 5 books ahead of schedule! I would change my target but anything could happen so I’d rather smash it than not quite make it by upping my goal! 52/80 books read!
- January: 6 books
- February: 5 books
- March: 8 books
- April: 5 books
- May: 9 books
- June: 5 books
- July: 6 books
- August: 8 books
- September: ❓
- October: ❓
- November: ❓
- December: ❓
Pages Challenge:
With 8 books comes a lot of pages, in fact I read the most pages of the year in the month just gone. Just 8696 pages to go!
- January: 1177 pages
- February: 1488 pages
- March: 1875 pages
- April: 1659 pages
- May: 1600 pages
- June: 1189 pages
- July: 1785 pages
- August: 2531 pages
- September: ❓
- October: ❓
- November: ❓
- December: ❓
Audiobook Update:
As promise last month I clicked back onto my Audible app last month & started listening to Visions or Zaura by Suzanne Rogerson!
- January: 0hrs, 0mins
- February: 0hrs, 0mins
- March: 0hrs, 0mins
- April: 13hrs, 16mins
- May: 8hrs, 40mins
- June: 9hrs, 43mins
- July: 0hrs, 0mins
- August: 3hrs, 12mins
- September: ❓
- October: ❓
- November: ❓
- December: ❓
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