(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?
Let me be quietly impressed, ok?! x
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