Okay, no more complaining about slow reading, because August was a *banner* month. TWENTY THREE BOOKS. Read’em and weep…no pun intended. Five audiobooks, for almost 3 days of listening, and 18 print books of over 5,300 pages. Don’t ask how, I have no idea. Even better, I’ve already reviewed almost all of them.
I’m feeling quite accomplished at the moment, if you can’t tell.
After my list of what I read this month, you’ll find a list of the other reviews I posted this month.
What I Read:
Audiobooks
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, narrated by
How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson, narrated by
The City & The City by China Mieville, narrated by John Lee
Kraken by China Mieville – review pending
Body Work by Sara Paretsky – review coming in October
Fiction
Simply From Scratch by Alicia Bessette
29: A Novel by Adena Halpern
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
What He’s Poised to Do by Ben Greenberg (short stories)
Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntyre
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart
The Life You’ve Imagined by Kristina Riggle
Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
American Music by Jane Mendehlson
Numb by Sean Ferrell
Young Adult/Middle Grades Fiction
Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Mystery/Thriller
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Historical Fiction
The Report by Jessica Francis Kane
The Gendarme by Mark Mustian
Memoir
Everything is Going to be Great by Rachel Shukert
Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
Pick of the Month:
It has been a long, long time since I have had such a difficult time picking a favorite book for the month. Of course, it has also been a long, long time since I finished 23 books in a month, too. I considered Rachel Shukert’s Everything is Going to be Great, The Life You’ve Imagined by Kristina Riggle, and Lake Overturn by Vestal McIntyre.
The winners, however, is: The Report by Jessica Francis Kane, partly because it was such a sleeper hit, and The City & The City by China Mieville, which was just a phenomenal audiobook..
Honorable mention to The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva and Body Work by Sara Paretsky, both of which made me want to read all of the previous books in both of these prolific series.
What I Posted:
Announcements/Specials
An Interview With…Me!
My Kind of Book: A Celebration of Chicago Literature
Fiction
The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson
The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico by Maddie Dawson
Historical Fiction
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
Note: Some of these books were provided to me for review.
Holy cow! That’s almost a book a day!
Way to go girl!
I couldn’t do that if I locked myself in a closet for the month! I just uploaded The City and the City, and hope to listen to that next, after Faithful Place. Even more impressive is the fact that you have most of the reviews written. This is my issue these days.
Nicely done! I’m also impressed that you wrote almost all of the reviews as well! Like Sandy, I tend to fall behind with my reviews. I managed to have them scheduled at least 2 weeks in advance and before I know it, I’m behind again. Sigh…
If it makes you two feel better, I still have some books from then end of May that haven’t been reviewed, so I’m only caught up on recent stuff!
Congratulations on a fantastic reading month. Now I’m really hoping that speed reading power you zapped me with works.
23 books is very good! Phenomenal, actually. That is more than I have probably read the past 3 months combined!
Wow! You read a lot of books! Very good list of books.
Wow that is impressive!!
Congrats on a great month! You really got through a lot of books. Here’s to a successful September
WOW – I wonder if I have read 23 books this year! You’re amazing
Wow, you had an amazing month! I’m impressed that you managed to read this much AND to keep up with the reviews! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Kraken.
Twenty three books? TWENTY THREE??? Holy cow! I am in awe…. I am peeking at my TBR shelf, errr…. bookcase…. errrr mountain and thinking what a twenty three book month would do for me….
Congrats on the great month of reading!