#books read in august 2023

[godzilla-reads]

🌸AUGUST READING WRAPUP 🌸

What have I been up to in August? Reading, it seems. I finished 15 books this month, bringing my yearly total to 115 so far! Here’s the list and the next photo for my Top 4 Reads because I couldn’t pick just 3 this time:

🌸 Hot Money by Naomi Klein

🌸 The Wild Swans by Jackie Morris

🌸 Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

🌸 Bug Boys Vol. 2: Outside and Beyond by Laura Knetzger

⭐️ East of the Sun West of the Moon by Jackie Morris

⭐️ Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

🌸 The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris

🌸 WolfWalkers: The Graphic Novel by Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, and Sam Sattin

🌸 The Unwinding and Other Dreamings by Jackie Morris

🌸 The Bear on the Moon by Joanne Ryder and Carol Lacey

⭐️ The Skull by Jon Klassen

🌸 Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

🌸 How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine

🌸 The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike and Edward Gorey

⭐️ A Field Guide to Draco Floris Dragons by Annie Stegg Gerard

What have you been reading in August??

[why-the-heck-not]

24.08.23, thursday

I’ve been treating my journal like a podcast where I just keep rambling while doing things that give me anxiety. Getting the anxieties out right away and feels like I have some emotional support there even tho it’s just me & my journal. Sure it takes a bit longer bc u’re basically doing 2 things, but at least something’s getting done u know?

[tolive1000lives]

My 2023 reading challenge through August!

[wannabe-british-fangirl]

~ books read in 2023 ~

#21: The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

The farmer had four ordinary children, which was why the magic of the fifth came as a surprise.

Rating: 5/5

[therefugeofbooks]

The first book of the year was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. And I wonder what made me go back to this story again. I think there's some melancholy in the shared sense among the characters that they can't and shouldn't change. They have to relive their lives, and even though they pursue different things, they continue the same, and the world keeps the same. And this is one of the main conflicts in the love-hate relationship between the main characters. And I have to confess that I'm a bit obsessed with whatever Harry and Vincent have for each other.

It was a great reread to start the year!

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases! (August 22nd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed

Unexpecting by Jen Bailey

Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig

Strange Unearthly Things by Kelly Creagh

Just Do this One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmermann

Love & Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms

Creeping Beauty by Andrea Portes

Cold Girls by Maxine Rae

New Sequels:

Foxglove (Belladonna #2) by Adalyn Grace

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Happy reading!

[admiralgiggles]

August reads.

Starship Troopers was quite different from what was depicted on film and though I enjoy the movie, I kind of wish Paul Verhoven stuck with the book in his adaptation. He found the book to be boring. I highly recommend the book.

[slaughter-books]

Day 31: JOMPBPC: Read In August

My beautiful August, 2023 reading wrap-up! 💕

[libraryleopard]

Middle grade fantasy novel

Barclay Thorne an orphan and apprentice mushroom farmer who lives on the edge of feared, magical woods inhabited by strange, vicious Beasts

One day, Barclay strays into the woods and accidentally bonds with a Beast and becomes introduced to the world of Lore Keepers and their Best companions

While he's determined to break his bond with his Beast and return home, Barclay is soon faced with a choice to return home or embrace his new life of adventure

Bi main character (comes out in later installments, I believe); Black side character

[the--chaos]

"But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on."

Stephen King, The Shining

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[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. AWAY! AWAY! by Jana Benova.

This came in a summertime book box! Don't mind me, I'm just continuing to deviate from my End Of Year Reading Ambitions over here.

[shiroselia]

Ye y'all were right Book VI is the best one

[why-the-heck-not]

favorite time to be in my apartment is when it's dark out and I have just the mood lighting going on. never been anywhere cozier actually

[tolive1000lives]

August Reading Wrap Up!

[over-fen-and-field]

End of year reading round-up! Woo-hoo!

My reading goal for 2023 was to read a book a week – while using very broad definitions of “book” (includes things like plays, novellas, and graphic novels), “read” (audiobooks and radio recordings count, not just written texts), and “week” (sometimes I read multiple short things in a week, sometimes it took me two or three weeks to get through a longer book).  I’m also defining “finished” as when I’m done with the book, but not necessarily when I’ve read every word on every page – I picked and chose chapters a bit from the essay collections, for example, and bounced off a few books halfway through if they just weren't for me or weren't for me at that time. Anything with an asterisk is a reread.  I have these roughly in chronological order of when I finished them, but I tended to be in the middle of several books at once and didn’t keep a good spreadsheet to keep track, so it’s a bit cobbled together from my memory and library records.  Also, please note that just because I read a book, doesn’t mean I agree with or endorse all or even most of the ideas in it.

The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

Flight Behavior* by Barbara Kingsolver

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making* by Catherine M Valente

Deerskin* by Robin McKinley

Holy Silence by J Brent Bill

You Don’t Have to be Wrong for Me to be Right by Brad Hirschfield

A Letter in the Scroll by Jonathan Sacks

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

One Nation, Indivisible by Celene Ibrahim and Jennifer Howe Peace

Chalice* by Robin McKinley

Braiding Sweetgrass* by Robin Kimmerer

Dracula* by Bram Stoker

Hamlet* by Shakespeare

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Here All Along by Sarah Hurwitz

This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared by Alan Lew

The Scientist’s Guide to Writing by Stephen B Heard

Everything is God by Jay Michaelson

The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible* by Barbara Kingsolver

The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile

Unsheltered* by Barbara Kingsolver

Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen

Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner

No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler

Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Bronte

Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brooks and Rebecca Ann Parker

The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Staying with the Trouble* by Donna Haraway

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Incarnations by Susan Baker

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire by Rebecca Ann Parker and Rita Nakashima Brock

The Anthropocene Reviewed* by John Green

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel by Ian Black

Dragonflight* by Anne McCaffrey

The Masterharper of Pern* by Anne McCaffrey

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin

Dragonsdawn* by Anne McCaffrey

Overall, I’m feeling pretty good about the list!  There are definitely some themes that pop up again and again, but there’s a nice mix of genres, fiction/nonfiction, length, tone, first-time reads and rereads, etc.  I haven’t set a formal goal for this coming year yet, but I’m hoping to get some off-the-beaten-path recommendations from friends for things that I wouldn’t otherwise have heard about – so, if you have any favorites, I’d love to hear about them!

[alienaiver]

im one (1!!!!) book away from reaching 30 books in 2023!!!!!