The August Book Round Up

Well, August was a slightly slower month for books – not for any nefarious reason, really. I had a hard time focusing to finish the book I had going while I was in Vegas at the end of the month, and a few I read earlier in the month were longer, so it naturally lead to reading slightly less overall. I’ve been dealing with COVID fog this week so only just finished my last August read here at the beginning of September. Also, my kiddo started school and that was all consuming, even though I was sick and couldn’t attend meet the teacher or drop her off at all! I masked up and picked out her first day outfit and got the requisite pictures.

Anyway, now I am in the middle of Madeline Martin’s newest novel, The Secret Book Society. I am moving kind of slowly through it because I just can’t focus, but it’s good so far. That said, let’s take a look back at August.

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The July Book Round Up

I am…woefully behind, I know. I have another post ready to go that I’ll try and work on tomorrow, but I am currently on a layover in the Dallas airport on my way to Las Vegas for this years Labor Day Oasis Spanking Party. Wish me luck. I’m anxious as fuck, dealing with big feelings, and convinced I won’t play at all. July was a busy month for me, reading (or listening) wise. Part of that is because I listened to another entire series by CJ Archer – her Necromancer series. It wasn’t nearly as gruesome as I was expecting and included some fun pop culture things. To my surprise when I started, it had ten books! But it was good and Archer’s writing is easy distracting listening for me. I also tackled a “classic” that I’d never read – Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea! It was…a lot. But not bad – good story but holy droll writing at times.

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The June Book Round Up

I know we are eking closer August, which will call for the July Book Round Up, but summer has been keeping me very busy so far. I cannot believe it is almost August – for so many reasons. Since we got back from Germany, I have been very busy with work (in good ways!) and keeping up with the summer plans of a rising first grader (cannot believe we are done with kindergarten already!). Camp and extracurriculars and play dates and a LOT of swimming, plus spending time with family and friends. Because of our travel in June and the amount of time we spent with family, I didn’t get to nearly as many books as I would normally. Fear not, I am making up for it in July now! I just finished a 10 book series by my favorite, CJ Archer.

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