June Wrap Up and July TBR
Hello everyone,
Well, it is safe to say that June was a reading bust. I made a conservative reading plan but failed at even that. Goodreads is taking great delight in informing me that I am 16 books behind schedule as of me writing this. I try to tell myself with the knowledge that summer is always, weirdly, slow reading time for me, but it’s not making me feel any better because I want to read. I miss it. So why can’t I pick up a book? I want to read them all (please play the Pokemon theme song here) but don’t have any motivation to open any. Is it the heat? Is it the birds singing? I just don’t know.
Without further ado, here are the books I read in June of 2020
Ninth House by Leigh Berdugo- this book was a delight. A dark delight with murder and dark magic at Yale. I have been working on a review for about two weeks now and I’m just not happy with it, so I will start over. Expect the review in July.
Gemina by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman- I cried like a baby on multiple occasions. And I was truly disturbed on multiple occasions. And I had heart eyes on multiple occasions. This is another winner for me. So far so good.
Dawn Till Dusk by Tyffany Hackett and Becky Moynihan- this I read in about five hours, and enjoyed. It wasn’t great, but it was good. There was a lot of world-building I would have liked to see and the characters needed more time to grow, but overall it was good.
The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan- this book is so good. It’s the mid-book of the series and it reads like the turning point in the journey of all our characters. The states get raised significantly. I have read this about 94 times and it still makes me cry at a certain point.
And this is it. I read four books in June. I don’t even know what to say. This is the worst reading month I’ve head in years. What’s so frustrating is that I know I could have read more, but didn’t.
Moving onto July. I am determined to make it a better month than June, which in all fairness should not be too difficult. I don’t have a huge number of books to beat. So I made a reading list. Some of the titles on it will seem familiar to you. Please judge me.
The Assasin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas- this has been on the list every month, hasn’t it? Well, it will get read. Eventually.
Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman- once again, I have been meaning to read this one since February. It’s still looking at me from the shelf and doing a great guilt trip.
The Guest List by Lucy Foley- I still want to read this one. It sounds like a fun quick mystery, that hopefully will get me in the reading mood. Maybe? I hope so at least.
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager- I was told this book was creepy and keep someone up all night. Now with my true crime obsession, and my insistence on watching criminal minds on loop, it is hard to keep me up at night. But I have hope. I also liked this author’s previous book. I have a review somewhere on the blog.
If We Were Villains by L. M. Rio- I’ve been eying this book for over a year now. But now having read Ninth House, I’m determined to follow through. It seems atmospheric and scary. I mean there is a skull on the cover, and my god I love that title.
Bottle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan- I have had a good record with actually reading these. And yes they are re-reads, but they are amazing and make me feel happy. So I’m going to keep reading them.
Emma by Jane Austen- this one is going to be a reward read for me. Once I read everything else on this list I will get to spend time with Miss Woodhouse. SO that means I have to read everything else on the list. We shall see if the strategy works.
This is it. These are all the books I hope to read in July. I’m hoping to get through them, and thus back on the reading track, I’m happy with. Just a quick note before I go: I am not happy with my lack of reading because I miss it, and not because I believe I’m falling. Not reading makes me cranky, and that, in turn, makes me feel like I failed. So its a vicious cycle but remember that numbers are just numbers and don’t mean much. It is simply that I usually read more, and so for me, this state of life is strange.
Thank you for joining me today, and see you soon for the Ninth House review! I’m excited to start it. Again.
Bye now!
Anna
