Month in Review: August 2018

Happy September!!! It was another productive reading month – hot, hazy, humid
days will do that, along with a good week at the beach! Now if I can only keep this streak up the rest of the year, I’ll be happy 🙂

Reading Stats:  

• Read this month: 18
• Year to date: 136
  

Books Read:  

1. The Husband Hour — Jamie Brenner (audio book) ****
2. With You Always — Rena Olsen ****
3. Jane Doe — Victoria Helen Stone *****
4. The Coroner — Jennifer Graeser Dornbush ****
5. Under a Dark Sky — Lori Rader-Day ****
6. The Other Woman — Sandie Jones *****
7. Rust & Stardust — T. Greenwood *****
8. The Bucket List — Georgia Clark (e-book) ****
9. The Kitty Committee — Kathryn Berla ***
10. The Waiting Room — Emily Bleeker *****
11. Into the Darkness — Sibel Hodge (audio book) ****
12. Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens *****
13. Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One — Raphaelle Giordano ****
14. Pieces of Her — Karin Slaughter *****
15. Trust Me — Hank Phillippi Ryan *****
16. Still Lives — Maria Hummel (audio book) ****
17. When the Lights Go Out — Mary Kubica *****
18. Private: The Royals — James Patterson ***

  
Favorite Books of August:   

• Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

Update #UnReadShelfProject2018:

*These
numbers only refer to books that have been sitting on my shelf for a
while or that I have recently purchased. It does not include any review
books.

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of August: 210
• Books read in August (that count): 1
• Books bought/received as gift in June: 0 (and I already read both of them!)
• Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 0
• Total unread books on shelf at end of August: 209

 YTD Stats:  

• Total # unread books on shelf at beginning of January: 260
• Total Books read from shelves (that count): 15
• Total Books bought/received as gift: 9 (and I already read 3 of them!!!)
• Total Books cleaned off shelf/donated: 43
• Total unread books on shelf at end of June: 209

*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!!!