#july books

[bookaddict24-7]

✨A stack of books I added to my to-read collection in July ✨

[jonlybonlyfromboldlygo]

Hauled 5 books out of the TBR and committing to getting them read by the end of July

I have owned all of these books for at least a year and some of them for considerably longer (looking at you, Gladwell, I bought you at BORDERS maysherestinpeace) and I haven't gotten past a chapter or two, if that. So this is their chance to get read and prove if they deserve their place? Or if theyre just a waste of space.

1 month, 5 books

Perfectly do-able

Can I do it?

[remusfinglupin]

July Wrap-Up:

- The Night Circus: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Starless Sea (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Red, White & Royal Blue (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Glitterland: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Charm Offensive: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Melt With You: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Immortal Longings: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- These Violent Delights (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Our Violent Ends (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Heartstopper vol 1 (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Heartstopper vol 2 (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Haircut (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Moments (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Teachers (reread): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Carmilla: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

[sophiecountsclouds]

July Reading Wrap Up!

July reading wrap up!

Hello! What a long month it has been – I’ve felt super busy with new work stuff and I’ve managed to completely fall off making videos on TikTok and YouTube and I even missed a couple of blog posts which I haven’t done in years I don’t think! But I did manage to read a lot of books – thanks to wanting to finish my current reads before the Summerween readathon started, the Summerween readathon…

[annafromuni]

My July Reading Summary

Overall mood: energised. Returning to uni feels like I’ve been gifted a second wind, making reading and the pursuit of reading rewarding and therapeutic, even when it comes to the academic articles and theses I must read alongside my fiction. I enjoy the reading I do, and with the reads I’ve had this month that should come as no surprise. Books Read: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 4/5 DNF Yes,…

[ujusttry]

Discover 10 Must-Read Books for July to Enhance Your Reading List

Must-read books for July are here to enrich your summer reading experience. July is a perfect month to immerse yourself in a great book, and our curated list promises to offer something for everyone. From gripping thrillers and heartwarming tales to inspiring memoirs and magical realism, discover your next favorite read with our selection of must-read books that will keep you entertained and…

[aniehart]

July books

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Alex Recommends: July Books

It has been a month of new beginnings and hard work as I have simultaneously juggled a new full time job and a Master's dissertation. I think I am finally starting to see things take shape now which is exciting but I am concerned as to how I'm actually going to execute this huge piece of work.

My new job involves learning a lot of different systems and processes. It is quiet at the moment due to it being the summer holidays but it's actually really nice to have the space to learn things. My colleagues are all very friendly and helpful and there are some interesting things on the horizon. After such a long time out of the 'corporate' employment game, I do wonder how I'll find it when there is nothing left to learn and I am settled within the role. I have high hopes for it because it feels like the culmination of the last year of what I've been working towards. Quite scary but exciting too!

Mark is preparing to begin his first teaching role too. I'm so proud of him and delighted to announce that we're about to start our new life in a new town together. We've found a beautiful little house to rent in a pretty, charming town in the West Midlands, which is an easy commute for both of us and we're both so eager to see where this chapter takes us. So, yes it's all happening but it's all good things!

To top it off, I have some great summer reads to share with you. All of these books have the word 'summer' in the title and there's a real mix of genres to sink your teeth into. Hope you enjoy!

FICTION: The Summer Skies by Jenny Colgan.

Morag is at her happiest in the sky and she is now set to inherit the island plane service run by her grandfather. However, her boyfriend wants her to move to Dubai with him, take glamourous commercial flights and forget about the dark cold of the northern Scottish islands that are her home. But when she lands with a bump on Inchborn Island and is stranded with this season's inhabitant, ornithologist Gregor, Morag starts to question where she belongs. I have read a few Jenny Colgan books before and I love their easy, predictable plots. The Summer Skies also has the added bonus of a beautiful setting and lovely cosy scenes in a unique part of the world. The romance is an exceptionally slow burn but it felt very authentic. It is a quiet, simple story but it has a certain glow to it that will appeal to readers who want to escape for a while.

MYTHOLOGY: No Season But The Summer by Matilda Leyser.

For 9000 years, Persephone has split her year between the Earth and the Underworld. However, this spring the world is different. Roads are being laid through farmland, crops aren't growing and her mother Demeter, the goddess of the harvest is powerless to stop the devastation. Persephone finds herself joining a group of protestors while her husband is desperate to drag her back beneath the earth. I thought that this book was really interesting in its attempts to blend mythology and contemporary issues such as climate change and industrialisation. In this book, the gods have more of a spiritual than a physical presence, as they seemed to inhabit contemporary characters rather than actually appear in their true forms, giving it a magical realism slant. I thought it was an interesting look at how the modern world is encroaching on nature and the changing ways of human life. It was actually quite jumbled and confused in its delivery but I thought the idea behind it was really thought-provoking.

MIDDLE-GRADE: Summer School and Cyborgs by Steven Camden.

Jay was looking forward to his last summer before secondary school with his friends. However, they both end up having other plans and Jay is dreading the long weeks ahead. That is until he learns how fun summer camp can be! I didn't know that this is technically a sequel to Camden's book My Big Mouth but it didn't read like a sequel at all, so I'd say it's fine to read this one first. It's a quirky story about creativity and how it can really help to process big emotions and life changes. There is quite a bit of farfetched-ness to it including the existence of a monkey called Nesta. However, it's that silliness that adds to its charm. It also had an air of nostalgia for me because it is set around the time that I was Jay's age (early 2000s). The Saturday morning cartoons and the lack of gadgets took me right back to my childhood and I loved it.

YA: The Summer Switch-Off by Beth Reekles.

Luna's relationship with her first love has ended and their friends seem to be ignoring her. Rory is an artist with a social media addiction, who definitely doesn't want to do the law degree that her family want her to do. Jodie is doing really well at university but she can't remember the last time she had fun. So, they each book a holiday at a digital detox resort and none of them could have imagined what's in store. The Summer Switch-Off straddles the border of YA and New Adult well. It's sexy but not wildly so and several elements of it read very YA -the friendship dynamics, the family drama and the crushes. The cute female friendships with plenty of silliness were my favourite aspect. I really did feel like I was on holiday with these girls, so it's the ideal beach read. A very feel-good, easy book with some tension that is really quite low-stakes.

THRILLER: Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum.

Jen, Sam, Lauren and Jason have grown up together summering on Fire Island for decades. They host parties, play tennis and relax in the glorious sun. But this summer, a body has been found under the boardwalk and the rumour mill just won't stop spinning. Bad Summer People is full of rich people problems and unlikeable characters and I got fully addicted to their drama. I thought it was really interesting to get the viewpoints of side characters, as it highlighted how much the 'observers' or bystanders really see and the danger that they could pose. I feel like this is a definite Marmite book. If you love stories that revolve around scandal amongst the elite, this is an engaging page-turner that you'll struggle to put down.

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (July 16th, 2024)

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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 Releases:

Trespass Against Us by Leon Kemp

Dashed by Amanda Quain

Cursed Boys & Broken Hearts by Adam Sass

Portrait of a Shadow by Merriam Metoui

Riot Act by Sarah Lariviere

Grief in the Fourth Dimension by Jennifer Yu

The Ping-Pong Queen of Chinatown by Andrew Yang

Youth Group by Jordan Morris & Bowen McCurdy (Illustrator)

The White Guy Dies First by Various

New Sequels:

The Second Son (Betrayal Prophecies #2) by Adrienne Tooley

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Happy reading!

[morepeachyogurt]

marlena by julie buntin

[shisasan]

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[southernista]

Wednesday Reads — July 26th

Happy Wednesday fellow book lovers! Wow I can’t believe this is the last week of July and soon we’ll be saying good bye to July and hello August or as many of you call it back to school season. I hope July has been a good month for you reading wise and that y’all read some great books. For me it has been a month of hits and misses and I haven’t read as many books this month as I did last month.…

[torpublishinggroup]

Devilman Crybaby meets Marvel’s Venom in Exordia, the science fiction debut of Seth Dickinson, author of The Traitor Baru Cormorant. 

Ssrin Character Illustration by Julie Dillon

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Meet Anna Sinjari, a refugee and disaffected office worker eking an existence in New York City. Her life is about to be upended by Ssrin, an alien with eight serpent heads, no qualms with cold-blooded murder, and an appetite for turtles (yum).

The universe is governed by seven passions, seven patterns which appear again and again, across species and across time. Anna and Ssrin are bound by the last and the greatest. The cosmos itself ships their very souls. Specifically for them, that means they’ll have to outmaneuver spies, armies, and government agencies to save humanity from a diabolical alien entity, hellbent on pinioning the souls of every creature on earth.

Exordia is expansive adventure science fiction that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton, but steeped in the irony, humor, and pain of the Internet age. An alien-human epic for those who've always rooted for the monster.

[viggos-mortensen]

VIGGO MORTENSEN

as Aragorn, in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

[llovelymoonn]

on july

allie ray holler \\ charlotte brontë jane eyre \\ charlotte eriksson \\ eileen miles hot night \\ barbara kingsolver barbara kingsolver \\ franz kafka diaries of franz kafka, 1914-1923: “july 16, 1912″ \\ gurpiar sidhu \\ czesław miłosz new and collected poems: 1931-2001: “a magic mountain” (tr. czesław miłosz) (via @soracities​) \\ rick bass the wild marsh: four seasons at home in montana

buy my chai latte because i spent way too much money on them this week x

[koolaidashley]

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