pickAugust (like the month after July) is a beautiful coming of age story about a boy and his journey from a Michigan childhood to the beginnings of a working adulthood in Montana. It touches on growing up, heartbreak, and familial issues, and reminded me of the small towns I grew up in and people I knew. I found it very touching and relatable, and did not want it to end.
I didn‘t get a chance to post my August recap yet, but it was a productive reading month as I finished 18 books! The work books were in process from July but everything else was read in August. I kept up with my #CampLitsy23 #SundayBuddyRead #TitlesAnd Tunes #SeriesLove2023 #DiverseCozy #BookedInTime & #CozyFantasyFellowship readalongs
Some favorites were both the Klunes, Last Violent Call, Romantic Comedy, Hey Hun & Into the Planet & Lost Hours.
My ambitious August TBR includes books for #CampLitsy23 #SundayBuddyRead & #ChloeGongReadalong #TitlesAndTunes #BookedInTime #DiverseCozy + one for a #CozyFantasyFellowship readalong on Fable & a couple of ARCs for #SeriesLove2023 The 3rd row are library holds & others I‘ll try to get to & the bottom row are my weekly work leadership books & the Aug/Sept pick for my virtual foodie bookclub. As usual, my moods & some of this list may change.🤷🏻♀️
August #BookSpinBingo card. I realized I accidentally added a book twice on my list so I swapped it out with an #AugustARC I recently got approved for. I think it‘s gonna be a good reading month.
Here‘s my living bingo board for August #bookspinbingo! Very interesting where everything landed. 🤔 Each month, I look at the new board and formulate theories of which bingos I‘m most likely to get. I‘m usually wrong. 😆 Does anyone else do that?
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panI like a book that makes you think and there was a lot in here to consider, especially in terms of the impact of violence, divorce, and sexual assault (which is illustrated in more than one way), but the ambiguity of it all was a bit too much work. It almost feels like the whole idea was to create a literary classic that would be added to high school curriculum for dissection, rather than a story that could be deeply felt and enjoyed.
Here‘s my final #bookspinbingo card for August. Three bingos! 🥳 I‘m happy with how well I did on my card this month. 🎉
#AugustStats #BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin
So many good books this month!
5⭐️
The Prettiest Star
Once There Were Wolves
4.5 ⭐️
True Story
Arabia
4⭐️
Mayflies
Isabelle
Razorblade Tears
The Stone Angel
Free Day
Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor
56 Days
3.5⭐️
Acts of Desperation
The Hidden Light of Objects
3⭐️
Other People‘s Children
Exit
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
2⭐️
Temporary People
I will be in a race with my #self to read all my TBR for this month. These aren‘t even all the books! #conflictedworlds
I have been in a reading slump the past 7 weeks or so and I‘m hoping that changes this month. On top of these Unprecedented Times™️ I‘ve been dealing with a leak in my apartment for the past 3 months that maintenance seemed to make worse and also realizing that my marriage is ending but probably won‘t be able to do anything about it for a long while due to the pandemic and unemployment/having to homeschool my kid which makes tensions sky high. ⬇️
pickA difficult one to review. The book follows the life of August between the ages of 12 and 19 as he grows up in the farming life in Michigan and Montana.
Not a lot happens and there are some really distasteful parts (TW for animal cruelty and rape) but I still felt strangely drawn to the book. I think it‘s because it portrays a different way of life to many other books; it felt strangely old-fashioned even though it‘s set in this century. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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