(Still on hiatus — and still doing relatively okay! Just popping in with a quick update.)

Reading Challenges Check-In

#StartOnYourShelfathon

• Read this month: 13 Read + 6 DNF
• Current total: 150 Read + 30 DNF
• Remaining owned-TBR: 41

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Tarot Black Lives Matter Book Bingo

• Read this month: 4
• Current total: 14 / 25

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Popsugar Reading Challenge

• Read this month: 3
• Current total: 46 / 50

State of the ARC

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

Acquired

• Nothing Personal by Nancy Jo Sales | Netgalley | TBR

Read

• Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales | ★★★✯☆

DNF

• She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard | [review]
• Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein | [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

• [several manga volumes, but I’m not counting those here]

4.5 Star Reads

• The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

4 Star Reads

• A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
• The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, ed. by Martin Gardner
• Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan
• Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
• The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

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Monthly Total:

53 read* + 16 DNF
3.49 average rating

* don’t be too impressed; like half of this is manga 😜

Currently Reading

• Parasite by Mira Grant

• 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?