Month in Review: August 2017

Goodbye August …Hello September!!! So, this was a funny month – between being on vacation at the beach for a week and then coming home only to realize I had a stress fracture in my foot and needed to stay off it for 2 weeks, I suddenly found myself with tons of reading time on my hands 🙂 Not that I’m complaining – those piles of books aren’t going to read themselves!

Here are my reading stats for August! 

• Books read: 23

Books I read:

1. The Book of Summer — Michelle Gable (audio book)
2. The End of Temperance Dare — Wendy Webb
3. The People at Number 9 — Felicity Everett
4. The Goddesses — Swan Huntley (audio book)
5. Emma in the Night –Wendy Walker
6. A Beautiful Poison — Lydia Kang
7. Cockroaches — Jo Nesbo
8. Last Breath — Karin Slaughter (e-book)
9. The Salt House — Lisa Duffy
10. Sleep Tight — Caroline Mitchell (audio book)
11. Girl in Snow — Danya Kukafka
12. Unraveling Oliver — Liz Nugent
13. The Other Girl — Erica Spindler (e-book)
14. The Cottingley Secret — Hazel Gaynor (audio book)
15. The Walls — Hollie Overton
16. Two Nights — Kathy Reichs (audio book)
17. Everything We Left Behind — Kerry Lonsdale (audio book)
18. The Daughters of Ireland — Santa Montefiore (audio book)
19. Hide & Seek — M.J. Arlidge
20. The Burning Girl — Claire Messud
21. Mrs. Saint & the Defectives —  Julie Lawson Timmer (audio book)
22. Lie to Me — J.T. Ellison
23. The Good Daughter — Karin Slaughter

Favorite Books of August:  

• Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
• Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
  

2017 Reading Challenge Update:  

• You Read How Many Books? Reading Challenge — Books Read: 134/150
• Library Reading Challenge — Books Borrowed: 13/24
• #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Reading Challenge — Books Read: 7/15
• New Authors Reading Challenge — New Authors Read: 53/45 – Completed
• E-books Reading Challenge — E-books Read: 23/25
• Audio Books Reading Challenge — Books Listened to: 58/50 – Completed

*Kathyrn over at The Book Date has created a Month in Review meme
for those who put together these monthly posts. From now on, I’ll be
linking my post up each month…Thanks Kathryn for putting this meme
together!!!