Some pretty good reads, some meh reads, some forgettable reads — same old, same old. IDK, August happened I guess. 

Books and Tea August Readathon

✓ Read a book from a genre you like but haven’t touched in a while (political fantasy) – The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
✓ Wash away the sads: Read a book that gives happy vibes and/or features water – Seven Tears at High Tide by C.B. Lee
✓ Read a book featuring a-spec characters – Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
✓ Celebrate Languages: Read something in a language you don’t read often or translated – 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
✓ Read a book that fulfills a reading challenge prompt (POPSUGAR 2020: a bildungsroman) – I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 

Reading Challenges Check-In

Beat the Backlist

• Read this month: 20 books
• Total so far: 199 / 200 (99.5%)

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#StartOnYourShelfathon

• Read this month: 13 Read + 0 DNF
• Current total: 128 Read + 22 DNF
• Remaining owned-TBR: 70

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Year of the Asian 2020

• Read this month: 4
• Current total: 47 / 51
• Current badge: Asian elephant

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Tarot Black Lives Matter Book Bingo

• Read this month: 3
• Current total: 6 / 25
• Current badge: Dragon

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Popsugar Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 4
• Current total: 36 / 50

State of the ARC

State of the ARC is a monthly meme created by Evelina @ Avalinah’s Books.

Acquired

• She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard | Netgalley | TBR
• Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein | Publisher via Netgalley | TBR
• Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales | Publisher via Netgalley | TBR

Read

• Can’t Even: How Millenials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen | ★★★☆☆
• Come On In ed. by Adi Alsaid | [anthology review]
• You Have a Match by Emma Lord | ★★★✯☆

DNF

• Recommended for You by Laura Silverman | [review]
• The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk | [review]

Read This Month

Clicking on the titles below will take you to the book’s Goodreads page.
[ARC] indicates an advance review copy; [RC] indicates a post-release review copy.

5 Star Reads

• None 😕

4.5 Star Reads

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid [audiobook]

4 Star Reads

• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• We Regret to Inform You by A.E. Kaplan
• Persephone in a Motel Room by Lana Rafaela Cindric
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.5 Star Reads

• If You’re Out There by Katy Loutzenhiser [audiobook]
• War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman [prev. DNF – reread]
• Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
• 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades by Thomas Frank [reread]
• You Have a Match by Emma Lord [ARC]

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Monthly Total:

32 read + 8 DNF
3.45 average rating

• What are the best/worst books you read this month?
• Which books, if any, are you hoping/planning to read next month?
• Did you participate in any reading challenges and/or readathons this month? Are you signed up for any next month?